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To: i-node who wrote (854452)	5/5/2015 12:14:12 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1578342

RE:It is funny to me that all you haters of religion actually LOVE the most evil, hateful, violent religion of them all -- Islam. Islam is NOT a religion. It is a DEATH CULT.

To: i-node who wrote (854452)	5/5/2015 12:27:38 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By SiouxPal Respond to of 1578342

I defend almost all religions. I despise people who use their own religion as license to hate. Almost every religion has them. "has caused more death and destruction than any, even from ancient times." That would be Christianity. Jews got off to a fast start, but we didn't have staying power. War: Wars with at least a million dead: Christian wars: years: name: conservative body count in millions 535-554: Gothic Wars: 5.0m 790-1300: Reconquista: 7.0m 1096-1272: Crusades: 2.0m 1337-1453: Hundred Years’ War: 3.0m 1562-1598: French Wars of Religion: 3.0m 1568-1648: Dutch Revolt: 1.0m 1618-1648: Thirty Years’ War: 3.0m 1655-1660: Second Northern War: 3.0m 1763-1864: Russian-Circassian War: 2.0m 1792-1802: French Revolutionary Wars: 2.0m 1803-1815: Napoleonic Wars: 3.5m 1830-1903: War in Venezuela: 1.0m 1882-1898: Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia: 5.0m 1910-1920: Mexican Revolution: 1.0m 1914-1918: First World War: 20.0m 1917-1922: Russian Civil War: 5.0m 1939-1945: Second World War: 41.5m (European deaths only) 1946-1954: First Indochina War: 1.0m 1950-1953: Korean War: 1.2m 1955-1975: Vietnam War: 1.1m 1998-2003: Second Congo War: 2.5m Muslim wars: 1370-1405: Conquests of Tamerlane: 7.0m 1681-1707: Conquests of Aurangzeb: 5.0m 1967-1970: Nigerian Civil War: 1.0m 1980-1988: Iran-Iraq War: 1.0m 1983-2005: Second Sudanese Civil War: 1.0m 1989-2001: Afghan Civil War: 1.4m Seven times more people have died in Christian wars: 113.8 million compared to the 16.4 million who died in Muslim wars. Democide: counts those who died not through war or street crime but through the wilful in/action of government, like genocide or Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Christian democides of a million or more (does not count communist democides): 940-1917: Russia (tsarist): 2.1m 1095-1272: Crusades: 1.0m 1451-1870: European slave trade: 17.3m 1492-1900: Latin America: 13.8m Amerindians 1600-1900: Caribbean: 10.0m slaves worked to death 1618-1648; Thirty Years War: 5.8m 1651-1987: British Empire: 1.1m (not counting slavery) 1800-1900: Brazil: 1.5m Amazon rubber companies 1900-1920: Mexico: 1.4m 1933-1945: Germany (Nazis): 20.9m 1945-1948: Poland: 1.6m Muslim democides of a million or more: 400-1900: Iran: 2.0m 1110-1918: Ottoman Empire: 3.9m 1958-1987: Pakistan: 1.5m 1983-2005: Sudan: 1.9m Nuer, Dinka, Christians, Nuba, etc Christians have killed eight times more people in democides than Muslims: 76.5 million compared to 9.3 million. Almost the same rate as for war. abagond.wordpress.com