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Richard Dawkins says Christianity is "fundamentally decent," but Islam "is not" (www.friendlyatheist.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/atheism@lemmy.world

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The atheist's comments continue an irresponsible pattern of demonizing one religion while celebrating the one he grew up with

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How many millions of deaths has the "fundamentally decent" religion been responsible for so far?

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A little preliminary research; The Crusades: 1-9 million French Wars of Religion: 2-4 million The Thirty Years War: 3-12 million War of the Three Kingdoms: 315-868 thousand The Eighty Years War: 600-700 thousand German Peasants' War: 100-200 thousand

Which totals out at: 16.24 million people taking the average of the high and low estimates, WWI would be 18.5 million by the same metric for reference.

Things I can't find numbers for in a quick search: The Reconquest of Spain The various Inquisitions Excess mortality rate from anti-birth control advocacy (ie excess spread of STDs).

Things I've thought of but don't have time to go looking for: Violence in the Bible that actually happened Roman persecution of non-Christians Violence perpetrated by Christians between the fall of Rome and the Crusades Deaths from intentional medical neglect favoring proselytizing over medical care (Teresa comes to mind) Whatever proportion of the Native American Genocide and Holocaust should be attributed to Christianity

[–] BennyHill@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The USA killed millions of secular revutionaries in the name of anti communism and Christianity, which is a large part of the reason why there are so many right wing extremist Muslims in the first place so you can add those millions and the ones caused by the Muslims to Christianity too

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that's another category I missed. Just the book-keeping of finding all the categories of deaths to attribute to the world's largest apocalyptic death cult is a major task. No wonder the adherents of the vile faith are so insistent on the subjective moral framework of their fictitious tyrant, there's scarcely an objective framework that wouldn't paint the faith as among the greatest forces of evil Humanity has ever been subjected to.