[js1138]

Secular statism has certainly resulted in more deaths than religion, if only because the modern populations are higher, and weapons exist that can kill hundreds of thousands at a stroke.

But only religion has claimed to kill on the direct command of God.

[AndrewC]

if only because the modern populations are higher, and weapons exist that can kill hundreds of thousands at a stroke.

Interesting justification.

[medved]

But only religion has claimed to kill on the direct command of God...

Check out my post #16 above. Granted it's a little bit more to try to read than some of the one or two-liners you see here but it explains what you see in the old testament. The people who were hearing God command them to fight wars, sacrafice children and otherwise kill people were experiencing the same kind of thing David Berkowicz/Son-of-Sam experienced, i.e. an inner voice which they could not escape from or disobey and that kind of thing, which now is rare and referred to as schizophrenia, a mental illness, was COMMON in old testament times and, prior to the time of Zechariah, viewed as fairly normal.

[The_Reader_David]

Ah! But to atheistic secularism, Man or the state are God.