Quote Originally Posted by GimmeMoneyNow:
O.K., I'm listening,
State your case......
Who are we talking about?
Give me some specifics.......
Adolph Hitler? The Crusades?
What are we talking about here?
Once again, throughout the recorded history of time, more lives have been executed in the name of "religion" more so than any other reason.......
Religion is "not the problem"??????
Seems to me, currently, religion is the only problem.....
And, has been for centuries.......
The following is a mostly correct answer. But it depends on the real question. Whether they were killed in the name of religion or just happened to have occurred under a religious regime:
Well, here's a list of the ten most deadly wars in which such counts were historically kept. I could go into a lengthy debate about the history behind each of them, but the short answer is that of all these wars, the only connection I can find to religion is in the Conquests of Timur the Lame and the Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia. Timur the Lame considered himself a ghazi or 'Warrior for the faith' and his biggest wars were fought to defend the Mongols from the Muslim expansion and Menelik fought Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi to defend the same Muslim expansion in Ethiopia.
Although Christians are constantly held in contempt for the Crusades, they were also originally fought as a defensive war against the equally vicious armies of Islam. The total number of deaths due to the crusades has been estimated at around nine million, and at least half of those deaths were Christians.
World War II (1939–1945) casualties - 60,000,000–72,000,000
Mongol Conquests (13th century) casualties - 30,000,000–60,000,000
Manchu conquest of Ming China (1616–1662) casualties - 25,000,000
World War I (1914–1918) casualties - 20,000,000–70,000,000
Taiping Rebellion (China, 1851–1864) casualties - 20,000,000
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) casualties - 20,000,000
Warring States Era (China, 475 BC–221 BC) casualties - 10,000,000
Conquests of Timur the Lame (1360-1405) casualties - 7,000,000 - 20,000,000
Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1921) casualties - 5,000,000–9,000,000
Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882- 1898) casualties - 5,000,000