hitler killing jews because of their religion
Absurd tripe. He killed Jews for a secular reason, ethnicity. That's why the word is Anti-Semetism, not Anti-Judaism. It just so happens that, in this case, religion determined ethnicity.
The political writer Wilhelm Marr is credited with coining the German word Antisemitismus in 1873, at a time when racial science was fashionable in Germany but religious prejudice was not. This term was offered as an alternative to the older German word Judenhass, meaning Jew-hatred. The aim of the effort to rename "Jew-hatred" into Anti-Semitism, was to give "Jew-hatred" a more scientific basis, however, it was never intended to eliminate the concept of hatred towards Jews based on the Christian conspiracies and legends so popular with the general population.
romans forcing their religion on those they conqured
This actually never happened, as the Romans generally assimilated the Gods they encountered, and in more then one occasion (Isis) completley adopted it. Not to mention the Romans where generally fairly a-religious.
Ah. Silly theistic me, thinking that was because of a period of global cooling resulting in Scandanavia being as infertile as that chick in The Crying Game.
everysociety that has followed a god,
Make that everysociety in hstiory before the absurdly violent Industrial Age
instead of justice and logic
Both of which are religious concepts at heart, see Zoroastrianism
has caused the death of hundreads, thousands, and in some cases millions of people...
And set up the basis for 'huamnism', all forms of morality...religion is a totally integral part of what it is to be human. There's a reason one of the easiest ways to tell the diffirence between a prehuman and a human settlement is ceremonial burials.
The fact that the atheist dictatorships were in the most populous century (not including this one, seeing as it's only 5 years in it would be a pointless comparison) couldn't possibly have any bearing on the numbers killed, could it?
This is actually kind of funny. The percentage of the population of the world killed in wars in the 20th Century is pretty fucking big. Especially when compared to the mid-19th Century, an era where Conservative, Christian values had undeniable reign over the world, and resulted in an era of peace and prosperity.
Historically, more people have been killed for religious reasons than for almost any other cause, aside from survival and territorial issues, which are often mired in religion anyway. And Elly was talking about history. Looking at only the 20th century is a little pointless in my opinion.
No, no, and no. Firstly, just more people are killed in was in preindusrial socities, so it's not even fair. Sure, it's easy to point out how brutal the Crusades where, but compare these to secular wars in Africa and you have somthing similar. People just like killing people.
Not to meniton the obvious; the introduction of Abrahamic religions to an area ALWAYS pacifies them. See the Vikings, the Germans, or even the Romans.
