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Posted by: twinertia
Date: April 29, 2008 04:18PM
So, around the early-to-mid 1800s, eh?
I'll give you Pol Pot's roughly two (2) million slain, but I'm taking Hitler's estimated six (6) million killed (he was a Catholic in good stead with the kirk who continued the scapegoating that Martin Luther started). Stalin's a wash (hard to claim a chameleon who helped do in both clergy AND scientists). Dihn Diem, Jasenovac, and Northern Ireland should bolster my case.
Going back to the 1500s gives me the "slam dunk", if you will. All the Catholic/Protestant wars of Europe, the colonization of the Americas, and the untold numbers of Muslim skirmishes stand out in all their theistic glory.
All the while keeping in mind that neither of us can "prove" that a particular ideology is responsible for the historic barbarity towards one another (although my case is a little stronger; Pot never claimed that atheism is what drove him to murder, but Hitler was "sure" that "Gott Mit Uns").
I'll give you Pol Pot's roughly two (2) million slain, but I'm taking Hitler's estimated six (6) million killed (he was a Catholic in good stead with the kirk who continued the scapegoating that Martin Luther started). Stalin's a wash (hard to claim a chameleon who helped do in both clergy AND scientists). Dihn Diem, Jasenovac, and Northern Ireland should bolster my case.
Going back to the 1500s gives me the "slam dunk", if you will. All the Catholic/Protestant wars of Europe, the colonization of the Americas, and the untold numbers of Muslim skirmishes stand out in all their theistic glory.
All the while keeping in mind that neither of us can "prove" that a particular ideology is responsible for the historic barbarity towards one another (although my case is a little stronger; Pot never claimed that atheism is what drove him to murder, but Hitler was "sure" that "Gott Mit Uns").
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