(October 11, 2013 at 1:48 pm)LastPoet Wrote: At least this 'motley crue' isn't responsible for the worst attrocities in the history of mankind.
*coughs*
Lets have a look at this.
"The classical period of witchhunts in Europe and North America falls into the Early Modern period or about 1480 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 executions."
"In the introduction, editor Stéphane Courtois states that "...Communist regimes... turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government"[3]. He claims that a death toll totals 94 million[4]. The breakdown of the number of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:
65 million in the People's Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Africa
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America (mainly Cuba)
10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."
Before you say Communism doesn't represent atheism witch burning mobs didn't really represent Christianity or faith in general either.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.