Why does Google search term "Christians killing" return 28,000 hits ...?

Question

while term "atheists killing" only nets 650.

Does this mean Christians are 98 times as likely to kill as atheists, or is it just an annoying coincidence?

Hey, I didn't say it was anything like scientific, but I think it does reflect a basic fact. Religion (Crusades, Inquisition, 100 Years War, Holocaust, etc.) is violent; atheism is benign.

Gastounet: I sense a "best answer" in your future!

Farak: and, likewise, neither were all of them about actual atheists killing others. But, I think we can balance out the errors statistically, unless you are claiming that the Devil controls Google.

Bad Buddhist: Interesting, but several things (Great Leap forward, Cultural Revolution in China) are not even wars. To label the partition of India, on the other hand, as anything other than a 100% religious bloodletting, is ridiculous. Also, last I checked, Yugoslavian civil war was mostly about Christian Serbs killing Bosnian Muslims.

Also, I think the Holocaust is very much a Christians killing Jews scenario and deserves at least to be partially about religion.

Answer 1

Huh, I googled aardvarks killing and received 278,000 hits, so I suppose aardvarks are 100 times more likely to kill than Christians.

I think its safe to say that this is just a coincidence.

Besides, it it really Christians killing for Christian values, or is it greedy people killing using Christ as a shield? I don't think Hitler mentioned Jesus very much in his speeches, although he hid under the cross in some instances.

Why can't Christians, atheists, Jews and Muslims all stop hating one another, and start hating criminals and welfare addicts instead?

Oh, and "killing butterflies" garnered 1,230,000 hits.

Answer 2

I used the same search engine you used, and I saw it differently. When it pulled up the results, they weren't all about Christians ACTUALLY killing people. Many of the ones I looked at were about a video game in which Christians are killing people (sounds great. Read sarcastically.), about the movie "End of the Spear", and included blogs (which contain OPINIONS, not fact).
Another was about Christians BEING killed.
All the Google search engine proves is that the two words "Christian killing" shows up 28,000 times. That may mean that it's talking about Christians killing someone, or it may be talking about a Christian BEING killed.
Therefore, since the premise of your question is flawed, it makes the rest invalid.

Edit: I should have known from the outset it was a waste of time to answer this question. I said the ENTIRE rest of the question was invalid. I didn't even look up "atheists killing" because I realized it would yield the same result.
Why do people ask questions on here when they don't really want to know the answer?

Answer 3

It doesn't indicate that more Christians kill than atheists. However, the results do seem to imply that there is a higher occurance (or at least coverage) of religously-motivated killing. What I'm saying is that you don't hear of atheists killing for astheism, so the two words aren't generally linked.

Answer 4

Brendan sweetheart you're back! I've been waiting for you! Check out this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsXFBqdegYDXC8FRzGdEXYPsy6IX?qid=20070214003431AAzmwYI&show=7#profile-info-033877c146d863e4cfb08ebf30ab6e65aa
It answers your "mistranslation" question from last night.

Now, for your current question, I think we answered that well enough last night. Google searches only prove that people are talking about a subject, they don't prove that more Christians kill than Atheists do. Try again my dear.

EDIT- Disagree, some of the most violent leaders in history have been Atheists.

Answer 5

No, that means there are 98 times more Christians than atheists.

Answer 6

people will find any excuse not to give their lives up. but you won't have any when you die.

Romans 1:20.
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Answer 7

Perhaps because Google is an instrument of the devil. We all know that christianity is only about peace, love,tolerance and forgiveness. Reading the Bible is a confirmation :

Answer 8

You have to weigh out the terms. Not all the links could be plausable. I believe it's a annoying coincidence.

Answer 9

Think how often you would say....an athiest murdered someone last night. There are also more christians than athiest.

Answer 10

Your 'research' is laughable. Funny how atheists who pretend to use real 'science' and 'history' are just as willing to ignore those fields when it comes to pursuing their own agenda.

Facts about modern wars:

There were roughly 62 wars over the last 150 years with casualties over 100,000 people.

Those wars account for about 180 million people being killed.

55 non-religious wars accounting for 175 Million deaths
5 wars where religion played some part, but reason for war was primarily non-religious. 4 Million deaths
2 religious wars accounting for 1.3 million deaths

* non-religious
% somewhat religious
# religious

*1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
*1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (3 million)
*1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
*1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)
*1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
*1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
*1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
*1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
#1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million) Muslim vs Christian
*1914-18: World War I (8 million)
*1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)
*1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
*1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
*1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
*1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine (7 million)
*1934: Mao's Long March (170,000)
*1936: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
*1936-37: Stalin's purges (13 million)
*1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
*1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
*1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
*1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
%1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million) Pakistan as an Islamic state and India as a secular one
*1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
*1950-53: Korean war (4 million)
%1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000) Muslim against secular France
*1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (38 million)
*1960-96: Guatemala's civil war (200,000)
*1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
*1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
*1965-66: Indonesian civil war (200,000)
*1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11 million)
*1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
*1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
*1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
#1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (120,000)
*1972: Burundi's civil war (300,000)
*1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
*1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
*1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
*1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
*1975-87: Laos' civil war (184,000)
*1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
*1976-93: Mozambique's civil war (900,000)
*1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
*1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
*1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
%1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
%1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
*1988-2004: Somalia's civil war (550,000)
*1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
*1991-97: Congo's civil war (800,000)
*1991-2000: Sierra Leone's civil war (200,000)
*1991-: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
*1992-96: Yugoslavia's civil war (260,000)
%1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
*1993-97: Congo Brazzaville's civil war (100,000)
*1993-2005: Burundi's civil war (200,000)
*1994: Rwanda's civil war (900,000)
*1998-: Congo/Zaire's war - Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
*2003-: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (180,000)