30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century

The Hemoclysm ^ | Last updated June 2000 | Matthew White

[vannrox]

I found this a real good read in support of the 2nd Amendment.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Kasey Kasem notes that the election of Bill Clinton is at #31 and rising fast(I'd use top 40 lingo and say "with a bullet", but I don't want a visit from the secret service or any of the couple of hundred Million Moms).

[Rightwing Canuck]

Meanwhile, a major reason that Russia and China stand so prominently at the top of the list is that they have so many potential victims to begin with.

I think there's a flaw with his reasoning here. He seems to think that a country with a population of 10 that kills 5 of its own is worse than a country of 100 that kills 49 of its own. Just because there are more victims is irrelevant; it's body count that matters, and the Commies win out, hands down.

[copycat]

Sorry, but I see a pattern here. Plenty of killing in countries ruled by communist parties, dictators, tyrants, military juntas, atheists, and fuehrers, but none in countries ruled by a God-fearing people.

[Rightwing Canuck]

Oops replied to wrong person. Sorry.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

That's why I was so startled to discover that there is absolutely no pattern to the chart.

Au contraire. Re-examine your data: there are NO democracies among the top 25 countries. Therefore U.S. foreign policy of the last 50 years, that of encouraging democracy, has been vindicated.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I see a pattern in the last chart. I count 8 of the 25 as African, 6 of the 25 as Eastern European(7 if you count Germany), 3 Middle Eastern, 3 Asian. But if you draw a belt from Germany to Vietnam, you get 12 of the 25. So seems to me that Africa and this Eurasian belt(don't forget China and Russia get up there in raw numbers), account for the vast majority of these atrocities. Or in other words, places less impacted from Judeo-Christian influences.

But I guess that's not the answer I'm supposed to come up with.

[IronJack]

Note how the genocides occur almost exclusively in nations marked by godlessness or Islam? Where God isn't, Death is.

I'm not ascribing this necessarily to religion per se, but to the morality that derives from religion. And in the Peace Sweepstakes, it would seem that Christianity is emerging as the top contender.

[Wonder Warthog]

Read Rudy Rummel's "Democide" web page (you can find it via a Google search). This guys numbers go pretty light on the communists. Rummel shows higher numbers attributable to them.

[gfactor]

and people think muslims are barbarians.

[gfactor]

and people think muslims are barbarians.

[Conservative]

Rachel Carson has arguably caused more human deaths than any other person in history. Her book, Silent Spring, created an anti-DDT frenzy among radical environmentalists, resulting in the banning of the pesticide, and the deaths of millions who died of malaria throughout the world.

[woollyone]

"Or in other words, places less impacted from Judeo-Christian influences."

Brother Andrew has suggested a pattern. He has said that every people group that Christians refused to take the gospel to has (and will) turned brutality toward Christain groups and/or nations. Notice that currently, the gospel is limited in it's spread into muslim nations. FWIW

[Denver Ditdat]

Bump.

[nicollo]

I found this a real good read in support of the 2nd Amendment."

Eloquent, relevant, and exact.

**bumped**

[steve-b]

Christianity went through its killing-spree period when the best weapons were pikes and matchlocks (the Thirty Years' War). The fanatics of the time did their best, but their best just doesn't stack up very well against the power of a modern industrial state.

[Fred25]

Then why does Hollywood make only “Holocaust” movies about mass killings?

[IronJack]

Oh, if we're recounting the history of Christian aggression, why stop with the Thirty Years' War? Why not trot out the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the Jesuit "invasion" of the New World?

All of which 1) took place a few hundred years ago, not yesterday; and 2) pale in comparison to the ongoing slaughter sponsored by godless communist regimes and the theocracies of Allah the Red-Handed.