(August 2, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Polaris Wrote: Well at least you used the other logical fallacy. Even if you had 100 crusades, they wouldn't equate to the crimes of just one of those despots.
You are either intentionally disingenuous or missed an obvsious consideration. Do you honestly think that a crusade fought with today's transportaion and military technology wouldn't result in significant casualties? Simply tallying the historic dead won't do.
Tyrants, marauders, despots, and would be emperors have always existed and sadly I'm of the opinion that more will try. Whether they wrap themselves in a veil of religion as a useful tool or not is immaterial.
What is material is that religious sensibilities cannot prevent atrocity and from time to time religion is specifically used to coordinate and foment violence. Religion is impotent as a means of detering those that would be violent for any reason.
