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Originally Posted by Rilder
Bugger off, If I do something evil its because I DID SOMETHING EVIL, not because Ares or Zeus told me to. You should be blaming the people doing the evil instead of the excuses the evildoers use to justify their evil.
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"Bugger Off" LOL
809 million people have died in religious wars. That’s nearly a billion people.
Oftentimes, a retort is that secular ideals and Godless Communism have killed many more. It is true that Stalin, among others, slaughtered his own people by the millions during the industrialization of Soviet Russia. By comparison, 209 million have died in the name of Communism. Some 62 million died during World War II, civilian and military, on all sides.
Conclusively, more people have died in the name of religion than in the name of Communism or Hitler, or the two combined times two.