Actually, I'm very willing to bet that the last 100 years of communism killed more human beings than every religious war combined. According to "The Little Black Book of Communism", there are about 100 million deaths attributed to Communist nations... in less than 100 years.
That's just in a hundred years. That's more people dead than lived on earth for probably half of civilization. The worst toll from religious warfare is generally attributed to the Crusades, of which there were several and spanned centuries. The toll? An estimated 2 million. In what, 400 years? It would take, at a conservative estimate, twnety-thousand years of constant warfare at the level of the Crusades to be able to match a hundred years of Communist savagery.
After all, is it worse to kill someone over religious differences, or to simply kill everyone indiscriminately? Let's also keep in mind that not only did two nations kill probably several times as many people in less than a hundred years than every religious war in human history, but that those two nations were officially atheist.
So much for free-thinking.
That's just in a hundred years. That's more people dead than lived on earth for probably half of civilization. The worst toll from religious warfare is generally attributed to the Crusades, of which there were several and spanned centuries. The toll? An estimated 2 million. In what, 400 years? It would take, at a conservative estimate, twnety-thousand years of constant warfare at the level of the Crusades to be able to match a hundred years of Communist savagery.
After all, is it worse to kill someone over religious differences, or to simply kill everyone indiscriminately? Let's also keep in mind that not only did two nations kill probably several times as many people in less than a hundred years than every religious war in human history, but that those two nations were officially atheist.
So much for free-thinking.
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