Who has killed the most Christians throughout time: other Christians or somebody else?

Question

Hmmmmm.

Answer 1

Christians.

Answer 2

In Indonesia, some 10,000 Christians have been killed in the last few years.
In Pakistan, dozens of Christians have been killed in bomb and gun attacks on churches and Christian schools in the last few years.
In Nigeria, thousands of Christians have been killed in the last few years.
In Sri Lanka, religious tension led to 44 churches being attacked in a four month period, with 140 churches being forced to close because of intimidation.
In India, there have been hundreds of attacks against the Christian community. The government’s affirmative action programme for untouchables guarantees jobs and loans for poor Hindus and Buddhists, but not for Christians.

In China, more than 100 ‘house churches’ were closed down and dozens of priests imprisoned. If you join the Communist party you get special privileges, but you can only join if you are atheist.

- Dr Paul Marshall, senior fellow at the Centre for Religious Freedom in Washington, estimates that there are 200 million Christians who face violence because of their faith, and 350 million who face legally sanctioned discrimination in terms of access to jobs and housing.

Before this modern wave of violence it was the Romans.
The above statistics were taken from.

Answer 3

There is a huge spiritual war that has been raging from the beginning. The main weapon used is propaganda and misinformation. A Christian by definition is "little Christ" or more correctly "Christ Follower" People who follow Christ teachings are commanded to love their enemies and to do good to those who persecute them. Deception and lies are not of GOD. You can call a cat a dog all day long but in the end. It's a cat.
Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Your question is putting religion in an odd light.

In reality it is a commentary on how the world was regional in the past, with peoples of one area fighting amongst one another for the goods and "riches" of a certain area. Since there wasn't a lot of mobility, airlines, steam boats or cars to move people around, they tended to fight with people that looked and believed similarly to each other...

Answer 5

Might be other Christians, depending on your definition of Christian. Think of all of the European wars and all of the revolutions and other conflicts in the Americas. Even the Boer War.

It'd be interesting to see statistics.

Answer 6

Probably 50/50.

The romans did a pretty thorough job until Constantine converted, then the Muslims and Christians went at it for quite some time. But Christians have had a tendency to squabble amongst themselves allot as well. The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind, and any time the church killed men for preaching a new belief from the bible.

Answer 7

Hello,

This article gives a great summarization on your question:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=what+conqueror+killed+the+most+christians&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=CA

It looks like the secular states of the 20th century win this hands down for body count.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 8

Others have killed more Christians and non-Christians:

Deaths from World War II started by Japan and Germany total deaths 52,199,262

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm

Stalin is estimated to have been responsible for possibly 60 Million Deaths!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_did_Stalin_kill

Mao-Expert says Chinese leader's policies led to death of 77 million countrymen

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=3586


Peace be with you

Answer 9

No one is more murderous than the biblical monster.

Who has killed more Christians? Probably other Christians. Just look at the history of the US alone.

Answer 10

Those weren't "real" Christians. "Real" Christians don't kill. Give some thought to what the Christian "culture" has produced....

Anyone familiar with Lucretia Borgia?
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/borgias/4.html
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