> christianity has an inbuilt awareness about the scapegoat mechanism [...] if you understand this mechanism you don't tend to fall into it [...] therefore the west became almost immune to this self created violence

leaving aside the claim of a link between understanding of the scapegoat mechanism and a reduction in self created violence - assume for argument's sake i'll take that as an axiom - is there any statistical analysis of historical data to back up the argument that the west is almost immune to self created violence?