“Science flies people to the moon. Religion flies people into buildings”Dr. Richard Dawkins
“Radical theists blow people up; radical atheists are mean on the internet”One atheist blogger
I’ve heard people refer to the crusades, witch-burning, inquisition, Galileo, terrorism, abortionist murderers as reasons why religion is dangerous and without it there would be a lot less death and suffering in the world.
The facts and figures tell a different story, however.
Below are three pie charts comparing democide (this includes genocide, politicide, and mass murder, but not war-dead) with war-dead, atheist regime murder and the Black Plague. The first is Pre 20th C, the second is Post 20th C and the third combines all of history.
If you would like to see the break down of these numbers, click “Read More”.
The atrocities from religion are inexcusable. The death of one person is tragic, and these numbers are so huge they lose all meaning. What should be learnt from this that getting rid of religion will certainly not spell the end of war, genocide and political murder.
These figures were taken from here.
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ReplyDeleteSo... any killing that doesn't involve religion at all is by default atheist? That's a bit of a stretch to me. There's a difference between an atheist killing someone and killing someone in the name of atheism.
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