[FoRK] " Atheists behind the greatest cruelty, says Pope"

[Tom Higgins]

After cage rattling this is what I got back...

"
> "Could you perhaps cite some sources on this? I've heard that claim
> more than once, but haven't been able to find any data to substantiate
> that fact."

"Mao" by Jung Chang puts the number dead under socialism in China at 70
million.  That is the record-holder for non-religious murder.

'One source estimates that as many as 60 million Native Americans were
killed during the Spanish Inquisition.'
D.Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 95

So in one span of time, in one area, from one branch of one religion, we
have 60 million killed by religion.  Have a minimum of ten million been
killed by Islam in its entire history?  If yes, then in two religions
the numbers are even.

Now add in those killed in the name of Judaism, of the Mayan gods, of
the Norse gods, of the gods of Africa.  Religion's body count is
self-evidently higher.

http://markhumphrys.com/islam.killings.html"

In Africa over 120 million Christians and animists have died over the
last 1400 years of jihad. Approximately 270 million nonbelievers died
over the last 1400 years for the glory of political Islam."

See also:
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-many-has-god-killed.html
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-has-killed-more-satan-or-god.html
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-many-has-god-killed-complete-list.html
http://ovo127.com/zines/ovo016.html
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