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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

Add up all the people that have lived over the past 4,000 years ..... wars, genocides, conflicts, violent revolutions have all led to countless dead because of religions.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

You might be surprised to learn that the world population hasn't historically been as high is it is in modern times for more most of those 4000 years.

So I got at least a couple of billion people having their beliefs oppressed by atheists. You can now go through the exercise of going over historical documents and adding up the number of people that have been oppressed by religions throughout history, and let me know when you reach 2 billion and I'll start doing a more accurate accounting of the number of people oppressed by atheists. Because when you consider the populations of the Soviet Union and China and there being multiple generations living under atheist rule, It's likely the number is significantly higher than 2 billion. But I doubt you can get to that very conservative estimate by looking through all of history.

Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but atheists have been the absolute worst people to have held power in all of history. The facts just don't line up with what you believe.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I'm counting the dead not the oppressed ... atheists haven't been around long enough to rack up the same murderous numbers of death and destruction as theists have over the past few thousand years.

The Soviets and communist Chinese (both systems I disagree with and do not support) never launched full fledged pogroms, death camps or extermination programs of killing in order to get rid of religious groups .... they oppressed and abused religious groups and maybe even killed often ... but never to the level of industrial killing .. the Nazis did that and even though Nazis may be identified as atheists, they had a political / ideological belief system that was more identifiable as a religion than a lack of belief

The only system in history that has any blood thirst for killing opponents has been and still is religious based.

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