Posted on 02/28/2016 6:31:28 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
A certain current trend in auto-brainwashing is to assert that "All Wars Are Started by Religions!"
But consider the actual record of killing by the messianic, atheistic, secular humanist regimes of the 20th century, as recorded at the University of Hawaii's Freedom, Democide, War, Power Kills website.
Mao killed 70 million, Stalin killed 60 million, Hitler killed 20 million, the 30 Years War, brought to you by "the people who start all wars", killed: 5.75 million, 3.8% of the Big Three 20th century total.
But all this is infinitesimal in comparison with the incalculable death toll of the innocent unbornif they're not Persons, neither are youat the hands of Marie Stopes, Margaret Sanger, NARAL, NAF, the Rockefeller Population Foundation, the Ford Foundation and UNFPAeasily half a billion, with no end in sight.
Communism is an evil, religion on its own.
Death by the government (aka, democide) is by far a bigger killer. For 20th century stats: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
It is not really fair to say that religion was the CAUSE of WW2. That is blaming the victims.
Anyway, it is a ridiculous claim. What religion cause the Vietnam War? What religion caused Japan to attack Pearl Harbor?
Even in examples where religion was a factor, did it CAUSE it? That’s just leftist wishful thinking.
Anyplace you find islime, you will find mayhem, oppression, tyranny, and death. That's been the case for 1,400 years.
For decades we’ve been told that it’s oil (or natural resources) that all wars are about. I guess that all changed to ‘religion’ about the time the global warming hoax was changed to ‘climate change’
Seems that bashing ‘religion’ and promoting ‘climate change’ is the ticket to usher in the NWO.
I found God by kicking Religion to the curb. No joke. Pedophiles, War, Pestilance, Victim Mentality....Pope Francis should destroy Catholicsm quite well yet people cling on it analyzing his gibberish. Nope you can keep it. Its the tool Government uses to keep the sheep in control. Used to be more powerful but people are waking up.
False premise. Define war and just plain old genocide.
My counts from various sources (Sokolov, Korol Eckhardt Kinder, Urlanis et al)
Mao by starvation:
1958-1961 = 38,000,000
Mao by murder:
1923-1987 = 76,702,000
114,702,000
Murdered by Stalin:
1917-1987 = 61,911,000
176,612,000
That title is probably going to be a good way to see who only reads the headline.
Freegards
Islamic estimated murder count since 628 AD is 240,000,000 or more.
If it only weren’t for those durned Buddhists, we’d have worldwide peace.
/sarc
One can only come to such a conclusion via the modern era error of isolating religion from culture or tribal relationships.
It’s churlish to blame religion for modern day wars, except for the one glaring exception that we are only beginning to deal with. The burgeoning war with Islam will probably be the last religious war ever, as religion itself goes into asymptotic decline, converging on zero.
Engraving that AK-47 round with various religious symbols took some doin’.
A hammer & sickle would be far more appropriate, if the symbolism is about what causes mass murder & genocide.
We Jews remain squeaky clean, only ever having invaded Canaan... And with G-d’s approbation.
Most wars are fought over real estate.
Once again, people are confusing a religion with an all-embracing IDEOLOGY, of which religion may play a minor role if any at all.
Islam is a full-blown ideology, much as the Nationalist Socialist German Workingmens’ Party that was in control of Germany from its ascent to power in 1933 until its collapse in 1945, after one of the bloodiest and most destructive wars in all history. Islam wants to surpass the achievements of the Nazi Regime in all ways possible, but they have this incredible internal schism that prevents the consolidation and amalgamation of their final objectives, the World Caliphate.
That does not mean, however, that they cannot bring huge mischief and chaos to the remainder of the world in the course of carrying out their internal dissent.
Their grievances with each other shall never be resolved, but meanwhile, a considerable amount of collateral damage is inflicted on the rest of the world.
But Islam stands alone as a cause of many wars. <
a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2790356/posts">The age of Muslim wars
I have no stats, but I would bet the total number of deaths in the name of a religion or deity, since 3000 BCE, far exceeds the numbers I see here. Mayan sacrifice, Zeus et al., Crusades, reformation, inquisition, add them up.
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