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Originally Posted by Cheese
Mr Brown...quite frankly you are wading into a war of words that you are thoroughly and completely unprepared for. If you wish to throw out numbers or suggestions please make sure you can back them up with something other than your half baked ideas.
Your responses are ill thought and completely untrue.
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This is a just a hockey forum. I'm not going to get into a discussion with boring pedantics. I think those of us who are arguing against you are just trying to point out the fallacy in ascribing so much evil to religion when secular movements have caused just about as much suffering and violence.
Lets look at China. The consequences of Communism's "Great Leap Forward" was about
40 million deaths in 3 years. True, it wasn't malicious (aside from a few million persecuted, most of them died from communist policies, and some analysts believe up to
100 million is the real count including abnormal deaths and natural disasters and famine) but it was more destructive in time-frame than anything any religion has ever instituted.
I consider that the view of Leninist-Marxist Communism was very much atheism and I can probably dig up some meaningless statistic about religous and orthodox Russians and other ethnic groups being shipped off to Gulags or something but I am lazy. But you'd probably consider that a good thing.