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Originally Posted by Cheese
well well well...CalgaryBornAgain chimes in with his usual flatulence.
What took you so long?
You obviously cant understand what is written because as I and others have mentioned on NUMEROUS occasions is....
Theism leads to violence...or sorrow if you want it to be. You can look no further than the countless thousands of radical Muslims of today following their leaders blindly into war. So yes...IF man invented religion...to control the masses...then yes that very same religion can be used against the people. Id educate you on little know atrocities like the INQUISITION for example...but it might hurt your mind.
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Professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii outlines that barbarism in his book "Death by Government," a comprehensive detailing of the roughly 170 million people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century. From 1917 to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union murdered about 62 million of its own people. During Mao Tse-tung's reign, 35,236,000, possibly more, Chinese citizens were murdered. By comparison, Hitler's Nazis managed to murder 21 million of its citizens and citizens in nations they conquered. Adding these numbers to the 60 million lives lost in war makes the 20th century mankind's most brutal era. These murders were not religious based. In fact the worst offenders were devout atheists. The problem isn't religion but, the human condition.
Speaking as a Baptist our history is traced through ana-baptist groups rather than the Roman Catholic organization. Our history is non-violent. You tend to lump all sects of Christianity together and even all theistic religions. Yet you don't have the courage to face the shameful tract record of the atheistic governments within their short existence..