29th March 2004, 8:58 PM
Actually, I'm very willing to bet that the last 100 years of communism killed more human beings than every religious war combined.
I really doubt it. And if it were true, it'd only be owing to the increase in population---three centuries ago, 5,000 men was a big army, and when 35,000 were killed, it was a considerable loss. 5 million today wouldn't even slow down our population growth rate--but regardless, I don't believe it anyway.
According to "The Little Black Book of Communism", there are about 100 million deaths attributed to Communist nations... in less than 100 years.
Curiously well-rounded number.
After all, is it worse to kill someone over religious differences, or to simply kill everyone indiscriminately?
Over religions differences---at least that way, as long as you kill off a religious person, you're skimming the gene pool. :nodding:
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.
And they were?
So much for free-thinking.
A bunch of questionable "facts", and ended it off with a cute little cliché. That's right; if communists were largely atheist, all atheist are genocidal madmen. I'd fix the real number of communist-related death at---well, I have no idea, but it's not 100 million. That's Weltaux logic for you.
I really doubt it. And if it were true, it'd only be owing to the increase in population---three centuries ago, 5,000 men was a big army, and when 35,000 were killed, it was a considerable loss. 5 million today wouldn't even slow down our population growth rate--but regardless, I don't believe it anyway.
According to "The Little Black Book of Communism", there are about 100 million deaths attributed to Communist nations... in less than 100 years.
Curiously well-rounded number.
After all, is it worse to kill someone over religious differences, or to simply kill everyone indiscriminately?
Over religions differences---at least that way, as long as you kill off a religious person, you're skimming the gene pool. :nodding:
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.
And they were?
So much for free-thinking.
A bunch of questionable "facts", and ended it off with a cute little cliché. That's right; if communists were largely atheist, all atheist are genocidal madmen. I'd fix the real number of communist-related death at---well, I have no idea, but it's not 100 million. That's Weltaux logic for you.
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