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Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
#11
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
(March 19, 2014 at 8:51 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Chill man, I didn't jump down your throat. o.o

My point is that you would probably think I was just trying to provoke resident theists if I made a thread titled "Who's molested more children: Atheists or Christians?", and rightly so.

LOL

I would however like to know who is typically more violent. Yeah, nobody can figure out the answer to that. Atheists can be more tolerant in some areas but it really depends on the atheist or in some cases the Atheist regime in control.

Christians don't follow the rules. They aren't even suppose to judge.
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#12
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
well, i want to shift the question to, "who killed more people THEISTS or atheists?"
why? because ever since theism/paganism (or anything that has a god involved) was started, there has always been deaths under theism and even under the secularists. but if we are sticking to stuff like the crusades, holocaust, and the salem witch trials... i would say theism has a bigger number perhaps because whether you are in the military as an atheist, the purpose of the battle could be religion. and it wouldnt be christians killing others but simply the reason behind the genocide would be a better question...
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#13
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
Quote:In the 20th Century, who is responsible for the death of more people, Christians or Atheists?
Why just 20th century and not whole human history?

I don't care who killed more I didn't count the bodies nor do I know who is atheist and who isn't. It does not impact truth of atheism in any way.
However give crusaders better weapons and more victims and they will kill 1000 billion if they could. Bodies are just a matter of historical chance of who has more victims and better guns.
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#14
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
The purpose of war is power and religion is a convenient scapegoat.

The question should be, what's been the excuse for most killing. Religion surely.
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#15
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
What frost says.

It's a valid question, but contains a logical landmine. There is an implied post hoc ergo propter hoc error, that because theists / atheists killed more it was because they did so BECAUSE they were atheists / theists.

Without looking it up I believe chairman Mao tops the body league table, what was he?
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#16
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
(March 19, 2014 at 8:24 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: Communists killed over 100 million people.

I have to wonder how many of the people were actually atheists though. I mean after the fall of communism the churches enjoyed a massive resurgence and I cant imagine they all decided to convert and join only because communism ended. More likely they were Christians all the time.

Anyway I'm not saying that atheists didn't kill people, I'm just saying I dont think it's quite so clear cut and it's unfair to blame all the deaths on atheists. Or atheism since atheism is not communism.
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#17
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
(March 21, 2014 at 6:42 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: What frost says.

It's a valid question, but contains a logical landmine. There is an implied post hoc ergo propter hoc error, that because theists / atheists killed more it was because they did so BECAUSE they were atheists / theists.

Without looking it up I believe chairman Mao tops the body league table, what was he?

Mao didn't intend kill people he just fucked up with his economy and people starved. Shit happens.
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#18
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
(March 21, 2014 at 6:19 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The purpose of war is power and religion is a convenient scapegoat.
I think that more often, it is a convenient motivator. More effective than nationalism, though it works the same way.
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#19
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
I'm not going to mention the Spanish Inquisition.
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#20
RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
Christians kill in the name of christianity.
Atheists don't kill in the name of atheism.

For example the Ustase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e

Quote:The Ustaše intended to create an ethnically "pure" Croatia, and saw the Serbs that lived in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina as their biggest obstacle. Thus, Ustaše ministers Mile Budak, Mirko Puk, and Milovan Žanić declared in May 1941 that the goal of the new Ustaše policy was an ethnically clean Croatia. The strategy to achieve their goal:[66][67]
One third of the Serbs were to be killed
One third of the Serbs were to be expelled (ethnically cleansed)
One third of the Serbs were to be forcibly converted to Catholicism

See the bold this was deffo a religious persecution on the part of the croats.

And of course throughout its history chrsitianity has persecuted the jews, with one inventive English sailor during Edward the firsts reign charging the jews for passage away from England and dumping them in tidal spur halfway between England and France then inviting them to swim the rest of the way. Jews didn't return to England until Oliver Cromwell invited them back in.
Then you have all the many and disparate sects of christianity fighting against their big rivals, other sects of christianity going back to the Goths during the roman empire, Perseution of witches and anyone else they didn't like at the time and you end up with a religion which looks a lot like the intolerant blood dripped religion that Islam looks like now.



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