Oh, come on now, don’t pick on one faith or another. Anti-Semitism is the religion people of every faith or lack thereof can and too frequently do belong to, including us Jews! All you’ve got to do is selectively abandon reason and let hate into your heart for an entire ethnicity you know too little / too much about,…

While it’s not much consolation for those who say Christianity has not been a force for ill, it’s pretty schizophrenic. For many if not necessarily all of your negative examples, you could find examples where Christianity was utilized by others as a force against these horrors / for good. Religion is rarely, if ever,…

“Crusades is another million or so deaths.”

Political creeds and various ideologies (looking at you, nationalism) have been far greater drivers of conflict than religion has been. The fact that Christianity/religion has been the cause of most deaths/wars in history is an off-hand comment, not a serious claim.

You might want to either check your numbers or pick a different horse to back. The Mongols, who have primarily followed Tengrism and Islam in history, would be putting Christians to shame if your numbers are right. Even allowing your inclusion of the flood.

The majority of the opponents to Nazi Germany were Christian. If Christianity bears the burden of Nazism, then does Christianity get credit for defeating it as well? There were also Muslims, atheists, and agnostics that were Nazis and/or fighting alongside Nazi Germany. Do those get blamed for Nazi crimes?

um no ... we havent been around for ALL of history. And nor are we a major force of death than most other creeds or religions, and qutie frankly we tend to do more good than many.

FTFY. Partially anyways. We could also get into things like Pre-Christian history or even prehistory. Now back to r/atheism with you.

“Regardless of your views or your religion, more people have died ‘in the name God’ then any other cause in human history. ”

That’s a widely claimed pop-history statistic, but it’s grossly incorrect. The vast majority of deaths in human history have stemmed from disease & famine. But if you only meant to reference…

Are you claiming colonization wouldn’t have happened without Christianity?

The Crusades, in terms of death toll, rank low in the percentage of people killed in conflict.

Many, and I’ve actually read them instead of accepting my high school teacher’s historical generalizations as fact. Let me encourage you to do the same.

“Read a history book,”

I have read plenty of books on history, thank you.

We can’t all be as perfect as him.

Listen, this is how conversations work. If I make a claim that most people who are abstinent until marriage get divorced, and then someone challenges that claim, the burden of proof would be on me, not the person who challenged it. Jade questioned the OP’s claim, and because OP made the claim he is the one required to…

The original comment said ALL Christians, ALL of history. And if you want to discuss the history of Western civilization, Christianity hasn’t been responsible for the vast majority of its death & destruction.

Saying ALL of history is a pretty bold claim, particularly since your AP history tutor-provided list mostly focuses on a time-span of a few centuries. I’m glad though that you didn’t include the Taipeng Rebellion, as it’s a little of a stretch to blame Christianity as a whole for a weirdo’s interpretation of a…

Shit Mao did almost that in just 4 years, Christians will be footnote in global genocide my friend.

Christianity certainly has an ugly side to it, but so does everyone else. Atheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism have all committed disastrous acts of genocide over history. Don’t try to pretend that Christianity is the only culprit. This suggests that there is a problem with humanity in general.

He’s posing a question, what research is needed for it? You claimed that “this situation” was embarrassing for him, but considering the poorly reasoned and misguided attempts at “evidence” that responded to his post, I’m really not sure why he would be embarrassed, or myself either.

Man, that’s some great data. You must have gone to the Donald Trump school of revisionist history and data gathering. “I can just make general statements about anything I want and I’m right because I said it.”