(October 4, 2017 at 12:45 pm)MitjaHD Wrote: Some people claim religion has caused the most wars throughout the history of mankind, but. In the book encyclopedia of wars it says out of 1763 wars only 126 were caused because of religion. Theists also defend themselves by saying that atheists have killed more people than religious people (Stalin, Zedong...). How would you respond? Does religion play a role in wars or it has nothing to do with it?
I remember a ridiculously good looking new girl at my old job talking with me about this, she took the position that all wars were caused by religion.
It broke my heart to disagree with her but I had to do it. I think it's easy to list a lot of wars and political violence that is caused by religion but most of it has some underlying cause of resources.
On a side note, a bit of a rant. I had that convo one day before I left for my new job. For years before that the only convo from people I got in the break room is football and how drunk everyone got at the weekend. On my last day before I have to leave a new girl gets sent in who looks like some sort of Meditaranian beauty queen and she's giving out convos with substance. Ironically it almost got me believing in punishments from god.
As for people who kill the most if you want to answer in a technical and accurate form then you would have to consider who has directly kill the most people, probably the people in charge of atomic bombs, I don't know their religion.
If it's who happened to be in charge when organizations kill there are a few atheist communists up there.
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