OK throughout history which has been the more bloodthirsy religion Christianity or Islam?

Question

Based on numbers killed in the name of each faith I would say it's Christianity but Islam now has its chance to catch up.

Bloodthirsty- typo

Answer 1

Islam.

Answer 2

Nearly all wars are over greed,
weather religion land money or power
Christians versus mu slims verses Islam they have all spilt each others blood,
rivers of blood - Christians massacring the inhabitants of Jerusalem I'm sure there is some truth in that story
what about the knights temple-rs that were killed crucified beheaded and floated into the shore to try and intimidate the knights of saint John that defended Malta
let him without sin cast the first stone

men will fight till the end of time, some with words some with prayer and some with the sword, lets hope that if there is a God be it Jesus Christ Ala Mohamed Buddha or whatever your faith calls him that he will have mercy upon the human race,
not that it deserves it

Answer 3

Could you share these numbers that you have. I'd be curious to see them myself. Sounds like you think you already know the answer.

Also, the best answer is probably secularists - Hitler and Stalin have the high scores on the murder machine right now. Besides, since both Islam and Christianity are very clear that murder is wrong, anyone killing in the name of these faiths is not really a true believer anyway.

All this crap about religion having cost millions of lives is getting old, especially since it's just isolated nutjobs. With Christianity and Islam being such prominent religions throughout time, it's only natural that a fair share of nutjobs have come from these faiths.

Atheism/secularism/whatever else it's called has been a small share of the population throughout the last 2000 years, yet many of the biggest nut jobs have come from that.

This whole religion is dangerous is simple a hollow catch phrase that has no real solid backing but is starting to gain credence by repetition alone. Tell me any true Christian or Muslim who killed anywhere near as many people as Hitler or Stalin. Should we say that secularism is dangerous and should be eliminated?

And all this stuff about the only people who think for themselves are secularists is crap too. Those of us who have chosen religion have done so freely. In fact given the current hostility towards religion in the mainstream, I would say that it takes more courage and independent thinking to choose religion today than to jump on the secularist bandwagon.

Answer 4

The world was a very bloodthirsty place until fairly recently, and I think that Christians and Muslims were roughly on par with each other until the Enlightenment began in the West in the 18th century. The problem now is that Muslims can combine the bloodthirstyness of ages past with the weapons of today. You are right. They have a great opporutnity to catch up and surpass any past wrongs committed by Christians.

Answer 5

Islam: read about Mohammed's following armies...Unbelievable ways of trying to convert...Those who say the crusades, those were mainly not church enforced, they were much more political than religious contrary to popular belief. Islam has been more religiously based, as for most of history Christianity was the world's largest religion, people often associate any conflict involving them as a crusade...

Also research the ottoman empire during WWI, nice genocide of the christians (armenians)

Answer 6

Who really cares either way? History is yesterday, and today is now, and our lives.

Whatever happened in the past was probably wrong, no matter who did it. But we MUST live in today, and ask who is killing more of our generations, Christianity or Islam?

As things stand in time now, the Christian world isn't at war. But Islam has generally declared war on the western world, and as the majority of the western world is Christian, they have as good as declared war on all Christians.

But the Christian faith doesn't condone war, and forgives their acts of violence. For now anyway. There may well be more 'crusades' as time passes though. And that will be because people will only be pushed so far before they have to act to ensure their own well-being.

Even a devout Christian isn't going to sit and forgive if someone tries to kill their children and family. They will act to protect all that is dear to them.

Answer 7

neither has a good record.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
James Madison

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson


beheaded....
On August 20,1189 Richard thought that Saladin had delayed too much, and had 2700 of the Muslim prisoners from the garrison of Acre killed, including women and children despite having promised that he would only sell the prisoners off. The Muslims fought back in an attempt to prevent this, but they were defeated. On August 22 Richard and his army left the city, now fully under crusader control.

Answer 8

Neither - Hiltler & Stalin (both non-believers) have probably chalked up a far higher body count than will ever be achieved by anyone else.

By the way, it's not the religion that's to blame - it's the person who uses the religion as an excuse for their actions.

Answer 9

I think it must be Islam.
Muslims have expanded their religion by forced conversions.
There are millions being killed by Muslims in Africa and Asia now for not converting.
We probably have more information about Christian killing in the west but there must be far more Muslim murders in the Middle East and Far East that we don't hear about.

Answer 10

Neither Christianity nor Islam is bloodthirsty.

People have been known to distort the original peaceful intentions of different belief systems to gain following for their goals of domination.

Answer 11

Both are religions based on respect for human life, a searching for peace, humility and a merciful God. Both have had their names used by mass-murdering warmongers who promote exactly the opposite views as the religions' founders. Christianity had a 600 year start.