I’ll make it simple: He followed an ideology that was atheist & due to that ideology he killed people who were not. Is that so hard to understand???!

THANK YOU FOR PROVING YOUR CAPSLOCK WORKS.

“Religion was also banned, and the repression of adherents of Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism was extensive.”

Pol Pot was a Maoist. Under him religion was banned & state atheism made an official. Under his leadership, Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims were persecuted & eliminated because of their belief systems. Killing 25% of one’s population & deurbanizing the country is not a path to power; Democratic Kampuchea ceased to…

“So blame the Africans for the malicious Quaker/Reformist/Protestant/Anglican funded and founded slave trade.”

I didn’t say that. ‘Blame’ for the slave trade can’t be universally assigned but certainly the onus is on the Western recipients. But assigning blame to a religion for a barbaric economic practice that in no…

I hope they (you? I?) do well too.

But education doesn’t exactly equate to intelligence. Many millennials I’ve met (under some definitions, I am one as well) are well-educated but overestimate their wealth of knowledge & poorly analyze the facts they have access to.

I don’t think millennials are fundamentally any better or worse than other generations.…

I don’t hate Muslims en masse or have any particular objection to Islam over other religions, but it’s time for Islam to have some sort of reformation. Turkey’s general moderation of Islam is a good start.

The same could be said about all belief systems. Nationalism has motivated people to kill tens of millions.

Of course atheism is a belief system. It is not rooted in fact, since the existence of God(s) cannot be proved or disproved.

“Name one leader who has committed atrocities in the name of so called “Atheism” lmao”

Pol Pot.

“the smartest generation with the highest chance of saving our planet,”

I don’t see any evidence that millennials are smarter or stand a higher chance of ‘saving the planet’ than any generation before.

Climate change is ongoing, and most anyone does to save it results in short-sighted or masturbatory efforts. And the…

“Nazis were Protestant. Do some research.”

That’s the most sweeping generalization you could make. ‘Nazis were Protestant’. NO. SOME Nazis were protestant. Some were Russian. Some were Croatian. Some were Muslim. A good amount were atheist/agnostic. Do some research.

Since when is Christianity responsible for the Atlantic slave trade? Is Islam responsible for it as well, since they abetted the trade from Africa? How about the animist beliefs of the Africans who sold prisoners off to slavery?

Is Christianity alternatively responsible for ENDING slavery as an institution?

“and another 125,000 or so dying from torture/prison.”

Where are you getting that number from?

“At the 450th anniversary of Luther’s birth, which took place only a few months after the Nazi Party began its seizure of power in 1933, there were celebrations conducted on a large scale both by the Protestant Churches and…

To blame Christianity for the Taiping Rebellion is quite a stretch.

The Ottomans did not defend themselves all the way up to the walls of Vienna. The Great Turkish War was a defensive conflict for Christian nations. Does Christianity get assigned blame for it simply for existing as an opponent?

Why are you blaming…

You mean belief system, not religion. Most wars were rooted in religious conflict.

“I made reference to the bible, because specific numbers are mentioned, and that shows that Christianity itself is aware of their ‘vengeful God’.”

Which almost exclusively are from the Old Testament. Do you also accredit that to Judaism & Islam as well?

“ Inquisitions were methods of jury trialing non-Christians. I am…

I’m interested in Vahalla (which I’m going to continue spelling this way). Any recommendations for it?

That’s the kind of nuanced stance I can support.

Thank you. :) You brought up the same points I did, only more eloquently.

But those answers did not suffice to prove “ ALL Christians ... have been a major force of death and destruction all of history. mmmmmm tasty data.”

You provided some examples that demonstrate Christianity has been a driver in some historical death and destruction, but evidence indicates it accounts for a very small…