Some goof asked this question:
Why have more people died in the name of religion, than in the name of humanity?
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He then went on to cite: Persecution of Christians by Romans, The Holocaust, The Crusades, and Islamic Fundamentalism
He - and everyone else who asks this question - misses one crucial point: More people have died in 20th century wars than all other centuries combined, and those wars were ALL SECULAR: The BIG one being WWII, plus Viet Nam, Korea, WW I, Civil War, Russin Revolution, Spanish American War, and plenty more.
So the premise of his question was wrong: More people have NOT died in the name of religion, than in the name of humanity.
Throw in Atheist mass murderers: Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kim Il Jung and friends, and secularism takes the cake for WAR
2007-11-20 08:41:59 · 12 answers · asked by Catholic Crusader 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Now, can we finally lay to rest the LIE that more people have been killed in wars in the name of religion than not? That old BS is getting REEEEAL old.
2007-11-20 08:43:04 · update #1
humans do it not the beliefs...im with you,
2007-11-20 08:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mao in the name of atheistic communism killed more people than just about all wars before WW2 combined.
Antitheist fundamentalists will accept the fact
that not Religion(a straw man that has never existed: there are religions and religious factions and people who live or do not live the ethics of their religions but no one Religion)
but secularisms of the 20thcentury (with atheistic Communisms the most murderous)have murdered more people
and caused the worst and bloodiest wars in history than anything else
about the same time that Fundamentalist Protestants( who have similar mindsets and arrogances and emotive leaps of disproven generalizations about "them) accept evolution based on scientific facts.
2007-11-20 13:42:44 · answer #2 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people have been killed in the name of religion.
who knows if it has been because of religion, or religion was an excuse.
even if the numbers do show, and you can make an argument for religion bieng the stated cause of the war and the name people die in.
you need to look at it more closely in order to really intellectually determine if the REAL CAUSE of the war was religious differences, or if religion was simply used as a rallying call to scapegoat an entire people or unite one group against another to rile people up to go to war for some other political reason.
you can't really separate what is "in the name of religion" and what is "because of religion".
2007-11-20 09:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well C. Crusader...you miss one very important point...especially in the Big one WW2...The Japanese all believed the emperor was a divine being, blessed by God himself. The entire Nation of Japan was caught up in the war as a religious war. Mussolini and Hitler both were Catholic and never kicked out. As a matter of fact you had catholic priest blessing (on both American/German side) the troops as they went off to slaughter each other.
True the church had lost it's power and didn't have all the great weapons Hitler and Stalin had...but it wasn't through lack of effort....Have you ever seen the torture devises the Catholic Church had? They have Centuries of blood on their hands (as a church). I'm sure the countless millions slaughtered in the name of Christ aren't on the same page as you. Neither is history.
You can make the point that the slaughtering Stalin did was because of the Russian Orthodox Church who gave it's blessings to Ivan the terrible and so many others who did slaughter with the church's (Russian orthodox) blessings.
wrong argument to make to defend this one...No defense will work...Sorry
2007-11-20 09:26:55 · answer #4 · answered by bigislandbatman 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You convieniently forget one thing. The world population in the 20th century hovered at around 3 billion, while the poplation during the Christian Crusades was barely 500 million. Just like inlation, you have to take into account the population growth RATE.
2007-11-20 08:46:15 · answer #5 · answered by Belzetot 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We will all die until Jesus comes back for Judgment Day ... then there will be 1000 years of peace.
I suspect the person you're responding too only has knoledge of what public schools pumped into their brain. There's so much more out there than u refferenced ... like all the wars the N. American Indians did.
2007-11-20 08:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I suggest you study the history of your own religion and maybe you will change your opinion.More people have been killed by your religion than you will ever realise.Protestant Christians and Witches were once burned next to each other because they dared to believe in the freedom of sanity.Maybe you should read about Sigismund Hieronymus Calvin martin Luther and so many more.Just don't ask your own religion because the truth will make you very unpopular.
2007-11-20 08:58:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Some people have been killed in religious generated wars, some people have been killed in secular wars. No matter what, war is war and it is wrong.
2007-11-20 08:50:54 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion + Prejudice. Definitely the easiest.
2016-05-24 08:48:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, we hear you.
EDIT: At the risk of appearing dumb, what does BS mean?
2007-11-20 08:46:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very good point.
2007-11-20 13:49:14 · answer #11 · answered by Ten Commandments 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋