How many people did Christianity kill?

Question

Are there any estimates?

Hitler and Stalin were both Christian. Just in the closet. Thanks.

People can add the Holocaust to the tally too now.

Saddam and Bin Laden were both supported by the US in the 80's. In fact the US was supporting Saddam while he was committing genocide against his own people and while he was using chemical weapons against other countries.

If you want I can ask people to add the people to add that to the tally too.

Answer 1

It's easily in the millions. The massacres of the Incan and Mayan peoples alone by christian spaniards numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the loss of their scientific knowlege.
Yes, the christian cult has a LOT to answer for.

Answer 2

Untold numbers of people have been killed in the name of Christianity, often in horrific and grusome ways. Jews have been a favorite target. :/ Between Crusades and Inquisitions and pogroms, the toll taken by Christianity has been another Holocaust.

Christians like to say that it was "bad people" who committed these atrocities, and of course that's right: They WERE bad people! But they were bad people who were also Christian, and who were acting in the name of Christianity. Any 'persecution' being done right now to Christians is nothing compared with the persecution that they've inflicted on others throughout history--persecution simply because others wouldn't accept their beliefs.

That's all historical fact. It's also historical fact that neither Stalin nor Hitler were Christian. Stalin spent some time, early on, in a seminary, but he quickly left that and became an atheist. Atheism has killed its millions, too!--a fact that isn't often acknowledged.

Hitler wasn't religious aside from his interest in the occult.

Answer 3

Cristianity becuase since its creation it has been responsible for many deaths. In the Roman Empire after Christianity was made the official religion pagans were persecuted. After the fall of the Roman empire and the spread if Christianity in Europe pagans and Jews were again persecuted: pagans for following "diabolical" beliefs and keeping their practices and Jews for many wrong beliefs such as that Jews killed Jesus. Then during the Crusades Europes Christians went of to wage war on the Muslim people in the Middle East which killed thousands. Later during the Spanush Inquisition they again killed, expelled, or converted the Jews and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula. Later in the colonization they again killed a large porcentage of the population in the Americas which was repeate later in Africa.

Answer 4

It's impossible to generate an accurate number, partially because of lost or badly-kept records, partially because it's very difficult to qualify what constitutes a death by Christianity. Casualties of holy war and victims of religiously-motivated murder (such as defendants in witch trials) should clearly be counted, but what about people who died as a result of the ignorance and xenophobia fostered by the Church? Do we include all the victims of the bubonic plague, a disease which became an international epidemic because the witch hunts also exterminated pest-controlling cats? Do we include all the massacred and enslaved aboriginal peoples of Africa, the Americas, and elsewhere who fell before the forces of manifest destiny and the White Man's Burden? Christianity has plenty of blood on its hands, but we can justifiably lay gouts and rivers more at its feet.

Answer 5

Stalin was NOT a Christian, and Hitler only used Christianity to gain power, since the church was such a major political power in Germany at the time. So the numbers of the Holocaust (which include Christians/Catholics, by the way) can't be included.

Christianity itself has never killed anyone. However, some people who CALLED themselves Christians HAVE killed people.

Answer 6

Any Christians right here heard of the Lord's Resistance military? " struggling with for the ten commandments of God as a results of fact the ten commandments of God is the form that God has given to the folk of the international."

Answer 7

A lot but it wasn't Christianity the people that invented it did it!

Ex christian and now a human

Stalin wasn't a Christian he was just a mistake in the communist party

Answer 8

Hitler was no Christian. He might have said he was but his fruits showed forth on that. Don't know who the other one was.

Answer 9

a site estimated 80million killed by christians (crusades, inquisitions, etc) against 10million by Islam.

Answer 10

NO. Hitler and Stalin were not followers of Christ. Christianity has not killed anyone, people have. Bad people God warns us about. God said they are going to do terrible things in His name.