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You can point to the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades (which were essentially a defensive war against Moslem conquests),

Top notch historical revisionism.

but even the number of victims of these events pale in comparison to other genocides and atrocities committed throughout history by various perpetrators.

I see... as long as the numbers weren't as big, it's excusable.

Owk, in case you didn't read the thread all the way through before starting out bashing Christianity (again), here's what's been said:

Helmsman: But to pretend that Christians were not responsible for many of the greatest atrocities in history is not dealing with reality.

The Man: Second, while it is true that atrocities were committed in the name of Christ, it is simply historically imbalanced to speak of them as being among the greatest atrocities in history, because they simply were not.

The Man's statement IS accurate - To say something is among "The greatest atrocities in history," one must point out that the pain and death inflicted by such event is large enough to rank amongst them.

The greatest atrocities in history have still been brought about by state-ordained atheism. China. Vietnam. Korea. Soviet Russia. Germany.

26 million people dead (and counting) as a direct result of mandated atheism. Stop blaming religion for Mankind's evils. Islam may certainly be violent by nature, but it takes mankind to act out on the evils it teaches.

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I never said that any atrocities perpretrated by Christians were excusable. I was merely refuting the erroneous point that Christians were historically responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpretrated in humankinds existence. They simply do not come close in numbers killed.

I believe in this respect it is you who is following revisionist history.

Being an agnostic, I am disgusted by the many examples through history of killing in the name of God. But I would also point out that other than a few bad apples, Christianity has become civilized while much of Islam chooses to live in a perpetual barbaric state. At the very least, most practioners of Islam are misoginistic and intolerant of Western culture.

From what I've read, it seems once Islam becomes the majority religion/political party, things begin to deteriorate for Christians and Jews within that society.