RE: Who killed more people Atheists or Christians?
March 21, 2014 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2014 at 4:51 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 21, 2014 at 1:47 pm)tor Wrote:(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.
If you count policy fuck ups, then count Winston Churchill of the Church of England - canonized, if not virtually deified amongst the Anglo Saxon world - killed 3.5 million Indians during WWII, and subsequently expressed sentiments to the effect of "good, they are a worthless no good race anyway".
British policy fuck ups, if we count documented cavalier acceptance of predictable and predicted consequences in return for securing control and extracting profits from natives as mere fuck ups, were responsible for at least 10 million famine related deaths in India during during the 1800s in the course of the little 500 year old island empire's "civilizing mission" on a subcontinent with 4500 year history of civilization.
Do we get to add that to the Christian side of the ledger?
What about Christian Belgium's depradations in Congo?
Or how about the Christian, in the very cross waving, local priest burning way Christian, conquest of central and South America, in which upwards of 100 million natives died? Christian side of ledger?
