Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Let's consider this Christian prayer in light of reality. The emphasis is on peace.

According to Quora, How many people have been killed in the name of Christianity? Crusades, religious extremism, everything counts. Some sources I found put the number around 700 million since the birth of Christ..

An excellent andvery detailed list can be found at https://skanda987.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/victims-of-the-christian-faith.pdf, breaking things down by the type of violence and when it occurred.

The Crusades, for example, resulted in about 6 million people being killed. (Numbers taken from various online resources and compared with others.)

There were many other wars involving Christianity. Then there is the persecution of people (80% of which were women) which resulted in a conservative estimate of 40,000 to 50,000.

So, what's the point. If Christians truly lived by such excellent writing as the above prayer then the number of those who died in the name of Christianity would be pretty much zero.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Just look at our country today with the number of school shootings, racial persecutions and deaths, political violence and so on, none of which would have happened if this sentence was really active.