(March 28, 2017 at 3:11 pm)TheAtheologian Wrote:(March 28, 2017 at 9:35 am)SteveII Wrote: Then you are equivocating. You don't really mean what is the most deadly religion, you mean what religion did people correctly or incorrectly conduct violence in the name of. These are not the same question.
Call it what you want, everyone reading the question knows that it doesn't literally mean a religion killing someone, but the people influenced by their religious beliefs. I highly doubt you thought that either.
"Correctly" and "incorrectly" conducting violence is your false dichotomy of objective religious morality that varies ideologically, so no, your point against the question is not valid.
No, correctly and incorrectly conducting violence can easily be ascertained from the religion's foundational documents/teachings and has nothing to do with objective morality. It is silly to say a religion that teaches "turning the other cheek" is responsible for violence. It is clearly man-made add-ons and illegitimate reasoning that gets you to violence. You can complain all you want about a particular church organization's actions, but to conflate those with Christianity is shoddy reasoning.
