"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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The non-religious didn't slaughter 260 million in the past 1000 years.



Nonsense. The Nazis alone slaughtered more than that. And they are
definitely secular.

No, that would have been impossible. The big round figure for WWII
dead is 55 million.

But your point is well taken. Religious wars have generally been
peanuts compared to the secular ones.

Quite the opposite if given relative population levels and leathality of
weapons.

Europe's religious war alone killed the aforementioned 260M during a period
the population average was less than 200M. That was a time when the bow and
arrow was the high tech weapon of the day.


Indeed, all wars have been peanuts compared to WWI and WWII. Each in
its time was the worst thing that ever happened, and neither had
anything to do with religion.

Do a bit of a read on the religious wars of the Dark and Middle Ages
(Hundred Years War, Crusades, etc) and compare the numbers when the
population of Europe was about one-fourth what it was in the 1940's.

Recall, too, tht both Germany and Japan claimed something of a "divine
right" of conquest. Then, too, the parallels between Marxism and religion
are stunning (speaking of the "thought" process, not the manifesation).