In whos name has more blood been spilt? Adolf Hitler or Jesus Christ?

Question

jus curious.

Answer 1

I happened to be really curious about the answer to this question in a non-baised way, as I have heard it asked quite a bit. I did a bit of googling just to see if I could make a rough estimate of it- though I realize it is impossible to give an accurate number of how many deaths were directly due to actions taken in the name of defense of the Christian religion. Plus there is the fact that even the total populations were just estimates and they were much lower than today obviously because they had no quality health care or sanitation (masses of people died from disease).
Just some modern day numbers to think about:
Communist Mao Tse-tung is believe to be responsible for 77 million deaths due to mismanaged harvests ("famine") alone in China.
Hitler is believed to be responsible for 20,946,000 deaths.
Stalin is believed to be responsible for 61,911,000 deaths.
US occupation in Iraq believed to be the cause of 655,000 civilian Iraqi deaths alone.

Okay after reading some responses I tried to find some "Christianity caused" moments and looked for numbers and this is my best guess-

European AND American witch hunts combined: believed to be 35,184-63,850 deaths
Spanish Inquisition: conflicting reports- modern estimates of 3,000- eyewitness reports of "tens of thousands"
Crusades: 9 million TOTAL, including Christians.
Conquistadors in Mexico: 240,000 deaths in Mexico City alone, 17million total Aztecs believed to have died due to Small Pox and the Spanish management of people during that time.
Native American deaths total: believed to be in the neighborhood of 100,000,000


Its just something to think about. : /

Answer 2

With only about 8 years for his bloodshed, Hitler only managed to kill about 17 million people. While "Christians" have had 2000 years to be totalled together. So it kind of gives Hitler an unfair advantage.

Most historians will place the 11th century as the time when the most people were killed by actions specifically sanctioned and called for by the Christian faith. That includes the Fall of Jerusalem in July of 1095, the bloodiest single time of the Crusades. In that year, the Christians only managed to kill about 900,000 (which includes their own people who died in the fighting, not just their enemies).

Since that is a 100 year total, you would have to divide by 12.5 to get an eight year average (same as Hitler's 8 years). That give you 72,000. That gives Hitler a 23:1 kill ration victory over the worst years of the Christian faith.

So Hitler is the winner by a large margin.

Answer 3

Ironically it has been believers in Christ who have shed the most blood. Through out time all the great crusades and witch hunts and the like were not perpetrated by followers of Christ but upon the followers of Him because they would not conform to the Christianity of the reigning rulers or churches. Even the massacres by the Islamics and Muslims throughout Europe and the middle east were always against Christians who would not convert. Though the Romans had their great crusades they too were killing true Christians.

Answer 4

It is more Christianity as a whole religion not just Jesus Christ. There was the Holy wars fought in the medieval times, wars in Israel,and various events throughout history. Not that what Adolf Hitler did wan't horrile with the killing of so many people its just that Christianity has been around longer than Hitler was more people have been killed.

Answer 5

Drawing on Higher Criticism and some branches of theologically liberal Protestantism, Hitler advocated what he termed Positive Christianity, purged of everything that he found objectionable. Hitler never directed his attacks on Jesus himself, but viewed traditional Christianity as a corruption of the original ideas of Jesus.

As Protestantism was more open to reinterpretations, such as Positive Christianity and a non-traditional re-reading of sacred scripture, and because some of its branches had similar views, Hitler demonstrated a preference for Protestantism over Catholicism.

His views were supported by the German Christians movement, but rejected by the Confessing Church. According to Steigmann-Gall, Hitler regretted that "the churches had failed to back him and his movement as he had hoped;" and he stated according to Albert Speer: "Through me the Protestant Church could become the established church, as in England."

Looks like Phyllis failed to do her homework, oh well...

Answer 6

Adolf Hitler was clearly interested in violence and genocide. Jesus Christ was not. To compare the two in such a manner is rude and disingenuous IMO.

Answer 7

Neither. It's Karl Marx.

In the name of Marxism, hundreds of millions have been murdered. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, and communist regimes have murdered more people than any other movement or belief system.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Well as Adolph Hitler spilled blood in the name of Jesus,I think it makes the answer pretty obvious

Answer 10

Not really sure but both pale in comparison to the blood spilt by atheist such as Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, ............