title: The Gods of War: Is Religion the Primary Cause of Violent Conflict?
author:  Meic Pearse 
description: "A thought-provoking read."<br /><br />"I thoroughly enjoyed this read and can recommend it to all. Whether one agrees with his construal of Christianity or not, this informative and eloquent book provides us with important categories for entering an important debate."<br /><br />"This book is not simple a defense of Christianity and a critique of atheism and secularism. In addition to frankly recounting the many failuers of the church over the centuries, Pearse also looks at related issues, such as the question of whether it is ever right for a Christian to fight. Pearse says both pacifism and just war theory are far from ideal Christian options. Pearse reluctantly argues that a believer can legitimately fight, but only for secular causes, not for the Christian faith."<br /><br />"Essential reading for those caught up in the new war about, not of, religion."
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword
  
  
  vi
  
  
  1
  
  
  The Wars of Man
  
  
  1
  
  
  2
  
  
  The Contending of Horus and Seth 25
  
  
  3
  
  
  The Missiles of Zeus and Indra 49
  
  
  4
  
  
  The Earth Chronicles
  
  
  70
  
  
  5
  
  
  The Wars of the Olden Gods 91
  
  
  6
  
  
  Mankind Emerges
  
  
  109
  
  
  7
  
  
  When Earth Was Divided 129
  
  
  8
  
  
  The Pyramid Wars
  
  
  153
  
  
  9
  
  
  Peace on Earth
  
  
  173
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  10
  
  
  11
  
  
  12
  
  
  13
  
  
  14
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Prisoner in the Pyramid 202
  
  
  "A Queen Am I!"
  
  
  229
  
  
  Prelude to Disaster
  
  
  251
  
  
  Abraham: The Fateful Years 281
  
  
  The Nuclear Holocaust
  
  
  310
  
  
  Epilogue
  
  
  343
  
  
  The Earth Chronicles: Time Chart 345
  
  
  Sources
  
  
  351
  
  
  Index
  
  
  366
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  FOREWORD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Long before man warred with man. the gods battled among them-
  
  
  selves. Indeed, it was as the Wars of the Gods that
  
  
  the Wars of" Man
  
  
  began.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  And the Wars of the Gods, for control of this Earth, had begun
  
  
  on their own planet.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was thus that mankind's first civilization succumbed to a nu-
  
  
  clear holocaust.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is 