I bet all of them started off with some sort of conflict that had something to do with religion!... I'm not sure how many are directly in the name of religion, but if it wasn't for opposing religious beliefs I bet there wouldn't have been even a quarter as many wars as there have been x

A lot, but when you get past the rhetoric and down to the basic cause, most wars are fought because one side has something the other side needs, like territory and oil, or wants - such as restoration of national pride or vengeance. Religion always provides a lofty, noble, and plausible - at least on the surface - justification for pride and greed.

TOO many

according to the bible most wars if not all the major conflicts of the world are the result of religion interferring or at least supporting the war mongers. most people are told and reasurred that they are going to war for a noble reason because their religious leaders christian, muslim, etc., have told them that they have God on their side. the churches of christendom have preached from the pulpits to kill the enemies on the other side of the world in the name of God. in turn the churches of the same side of the God they claim to worship are telling their followers to go and do the same. who is God protecting? this happened during world war I and world war II. to mention only a few examples. this is sheer hipocrisy on the part of the religious leaders who claim to have God's spirit. it is true that the nation of israel had God's backing in the military conflicts fought before Christ came to earth. however, upon his death, he abolished the jewish system. christians since then have been under a new covenant. they were instructed by the Lord himself to stay from the world and have no part of it. john 17:14-16 says: "i have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as i am no part of the world. i request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. they are no part of the world, just as i am no part of the world." jesus warned his followers that the romans would come to destroy jesusalem and its temple. did he tell them to take up arms to defend the city? no! he told them to flee the city and not look back. when the romans came and surrounded jerusalem the christians were long gone. they listened to the warning and escaped the calamity that befell jerusalem and its inhabitants. the book of revelation makes it very clear how Jehovah God feels about the bloodshed spilled in the name of religion. true christians are being warned to not have anything to do with the apostate religions of the world. they are told: "get out of her, my people, if you, if you do not want to receive part of her plagues. for her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind." (revelation 18:4,5) true christians know that very soon now God Almighty will act on behalf of them. he is about to unleash all his fury on this system of things. we can feel relief very soon now from all the oppression from this world.