Faith begets violence and death

So in this article on faith in the military, one soldier says his faith helps him justify his actions in the war.

And that is the whole problem.

Faith justifies violence. People say atheists are amoral and faithless, and think that this makes them violent, but this makes them the opposite of violence.

I have no faith in God or fate. Thus I have no excuse for violence, and I would not kill another human being EVEN IN MY OWN DEFENSE. How many Christians will make that vow, despite all the talk of 'turn the other cheek'? Few if any, because they believe everything is written in the sky for them, and that their actions are justified even if it means innocents will die.

Want to argue this? Tell me just one single military conflict of the last decade that wasn't based on someone of one religion hating another. Just one.

And these soldiers saying that God will protect them need to wake up. To say that you are certain God will protect you is to say that all those troops that have died were faithless and evil, which is clearly not the case, especially from their view.

No. Your God, supposedly both all powerful and all loving, has allowed this mess to continue. Again, either your God is all powerful, in which case he couldn't be all loving when you look at the results of his creation, or he is all loving, in which case he wants to help but is powerless to do so because of the mass idiocy of his followers.