Posted on 07/12/2024 7:05:22 AM PDT by SJackson
Almost anyone who graduated from college in the last 50 years has been taught the wrong answer.
Almost anyone who has graduated from college in the last 50 years has repeatedly heard the statement, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else.” And most of them believe it.
It would take a long essay to respond to this claim. I will therefore only note here that if by “God” the people who make this statement are referring to the God of the Bible, and therefore to Christians (Jews rarely had enough numbers or power to persecute anyone), the statement is simply not true.
Yes, Christians killed Jews (though it was never official church doctrine to do so). For example, whole communities of Jews were slaughtered by Christians on their way to fight in the Crusades. And tens of millions of indigenous people in the Americas were killed as a result of Christian invasion and settlement — though most of those deaths were caused by European diseases to which people in the Americas had no immunity. And Christians killed fellow Christians who had a different theology. Between 1618 and 1648, in what became known as the Thirty Years’ War — a war between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants — somewhere between five and eight million people were killed.
But there are few other examples of largescale killings by Christians as Christians (as opposed to people who happened to be Christian killing people, as in the two world wars). For example, during one of the most widely cited examples of Christian killing, the Inquisition, no more than 5,000 people were killed — a number both Jewish and non-Jewish historians agree upon.
The number of people killed by Christians in the 2,000-year history of Christianity is far exceeded by the number of people killed in the Mongol invasions of Europe and China in the 13th century alone — approximately 40 million and 60 million respectively.
It is also dwarfed by the number of people killed by Muslims, mostly Arabs, from the advent of Islam in the seventh century. During the thousand-year Muslim rule in India alone, at least a hundred million Hindus were killed. (The Indian government rarely speaks of this for fear of introducing civil strife between its Hindu and Muslim populations.) With regard to the staggering number of Hindus killed by Muslims, historian Will Durant, in his magisterial 11-volume “The Story of Civilization” (co-authored with Ariel Durant), wrote: “The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.”
Given that those who say, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else,” are referring to Christians, it is not intellectually honest to include the Muslim murder of Hindus as those who have killed “in the name of God” without specifying that most of that killing was done by Muslims.
Finally, and most importantly, there is something in whose name more people have been killed — in the last century alone — than in the name of anything (except Allah). And that thing is “equality.” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other communist tyrants killed at least 100 million noncombatants and enslaved a billion others. All in the name of “equality.”
And that is inevitable. While “all men are created equal,” as the American Declaration of Independence put it, based upon the biblical, Judeo-Christian origins of the American Revolution, it is not possible to achieve equality without violence. That is why the French Revolution, rooted in “equality,” led to the guillotine, while the American Revolution, which was not rooted in equality, led to the freest country ever created.
Why egalitarianism is a monstrous ideology is the subject of my next column.
God, He had quite the head start...
What difference at this point does it make?
Case closed.
Almost anyone who has graduated from college in the last 50 years has repeatedly heard the statement, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else.” And most of them believe it.
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360,000,000 Christians are persecuted and many killed for their faith all around the world- it is said an average of 13 Christians killed per day for their faith
Of all the supposed “Christians murders” committed by Christians, the numbers only amount to only 1 percent of the deaths caused by Stalin, Hitler and Mao
100,000,000 people were killed by the invasions by the mongols- people calling themselves Christians have killed nowhere near that amount.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other communist tyrants have murdered more than 100,000,000 people and 3nslaved a billion people all told.
It is a damnable lie that “more people have been killed by Christians in the name of equality”
How many people have died at the hands of atheistic governments like communism... in comparison.
Seems like communist governments of the 20th century have caught up and passed in the suffering and body count. And they have only had one century to do so.
Exactly.
Remember that the people asking these questions offer communism as an alternative to evil “religion.”
Equality. Definitely. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler. Vietnam.
And that thing is “equality.” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other communist tyrants killed at least 100 million noncombatants and enslaved a billion others. All in the name of “equality.”
I didn’t even peak. How did he know?
Marxism/communism/socialism is such a good idea that they have to murder anyone who opposes it.
If we don’t fight back against the pernicious lies our children have been taught, they will go on believing them, to the detriment of the greatest nation the world has ever seen. That’s what difference it makes.
***And tens of millions of indigenous people in the Americas were killed as a result of Christian invasion and settlement***
Tens of millions? There was not enough food in North America to support more than maybe one million Hunter-gatherer peoples. Most likely half that number. They kept themselves in “check” with constant inner tribal warfare and in Mexico, human sacrifices.
How the tribes treated each other before the White Man arrived. I would then suggest you google search the following:
Crow Creek Massacre.
Sacred Ridge Massacre.
Human sacrifice at Cahokia
Ancient Massacre Discovered in New Mexico — Was It Genocide?
Anasazi Cannibalism
Basketmaker II Cave 7: Massacre or Cemetery?
Massacre at Awatovi is little known act of genocide
How genocide wiped out a Native American population
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873
New Research Supports Theory of Ancient Massacre Site in Utah
And who can forget the Cherokee Slave Rebellion of 1842.
And not a White Man around to blame it on.
More people have been killed in the name of government than anything.
Little known that Muslims killed 100,000,000 Hindus.
Sorry, Posted without paying attention...
No wonder Indians have such a dislike for them
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