| LuccaCardoso1 said: - The European colonization of the Americas: 34 million killed. All of the countries that colonized America were strongly Christian. - The Hundred Years' War: 2.8 million killed. Both England and France were strongly Christian. - The Crusades: 1.7 million killed. Happened because of Christianity. And those are just the most famous examples. |
To be fair, the vast majority of the native Americans were accidently killed due to diseases, so it wasn't as much of a genocide as it may seem like. The Hundred Years' War wasn't really directly related to religion either. But the Crusades are indeed a very good example of religious violence. They were perhaps even relatively worse than modern authoritarian regimes, considering the lower population and less advanced war technology back then.
| Scisca said:
I think that people aren't aware of the real social consequences of rejection of God.
@Flilix - you are wrong. These are all Marxist regimes, and as we know, rejection of God is the very foundation of Marxism and Marx's materialism. It's not a by-product. It's the starting point. |
- The least religious countries nowadays are generally also the safest and the most free, so their 'rejection of God' doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
- None of these regimes are strictly Marxist. Marx rejected totalitarism just as much as he rejected God. If acknowledging the existence of God would have worked in the favour of these regimes, they definitely would have done it.
