The atheist's comments continue an irresponsible pattern of demonizing one religion while celebrating the one he grew up with

The atheist’s comments continue an irresponsible pattern of demonizing one religion while celebrating the one he grew up with

  • Giado@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    If you look at the death toll in the present then no, they are not equal.

    • jonneEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      The death tolls are more tied to whichever empire happened to have a certain religion as its dominant religion as opposed to characteristics of the religion itself.

      And then there’s the tricky bit of attribution. Were the crusades strictly driven by religion, or was it about control over trade routes? Is the British Empire a Christian Empire or was it more of a capitalist enterprise even if the head of state is also the head of the church? Was Mohammed driven by religious fervor when he started his conquests or was it imperialism? Was the genocide of the Rohingya done because of Buddhist teachings or because of a military junta trying to hold on to power? Do we start tallying the deaths by the Roman Empire under Christianity from 313 AD, or 323 AD? Can we just attribute what Israel is doing in Gaza to Judaism? Etc.

      Honestly I wouldn’t even know which religion would be the most murderous if you looked at all of human history.