Last time God was at his most active (allegedly), sending messiahs, and causing miracles and doing things which people took any notice of was in the biblical period. At the time according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population#Historical_figures ) the entire human population was estimated around 200 million. In the last century, according to estimates by Martin White ( http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm ) humans have killed more than 175 million just in wars and genocidal events. That is excluding the millions killed by epidemics (approx 20 million for influenza after WW1, 11 million for aids). Murder killed another 8 million. Smallpox killed 300-500 million people. Smoking killed 71 million. Natural disasters killed 3.5 million. There are plenty of other statistics. Overall, in the last hundred years, enough people have died unpleasntly to have wiped out the entire human population several times over the last time God showed any interest. Where is he
2007-07-15
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