I know that Penn is a practicing atheist, and I agree with him that Christianity can be dangerous. Look at the Trade Center. That was done in the name of religionYeah, OK, but doctrinaire atheists are far more dangerous than any quasi-holy religionoid ever dared to be. Look at the Soviet terror famine of '33 or the Cold War or Pol Pot's Cambodia or the annexatin of Tibet. The Inquisition and the Crusades and the War of the Roses and the reformation and the counter-reformation all pale in comparison.
80MM+ in China
50MM+ in the Soviet Union
8MM in Cambodia
1MM in North Korea
And we can leave Hitler out of this, since you are apparently so thick that you don't understand the man's own words. Hitler called Christianity a "social scandal" against the German people and vowed the destruction of the Catholic church after he finished with the Jews.
We can also leave out the slaughter of the French Revolution, with infamous rape of the Vendee (nuns and priests being repeatedly raped to death, that sort of thing).
We can leave out the North Vietnamese communists because no one actually knows how many they killed.
When it comes to killing the innocent, nobody can beat the Atheists.
18 posted on 03/25/2002 9:22 AM CST by cicero's_son