Christian Responses: “Christians Are Bad People”
“Christians are bad people”
So called religious wars and atrocities that go against the teachings of Jesus:
(These include the Crusades, Spanish inquisition and burning of witches)
2,000,000 (best estimate)
Wars and atrocities from just 2 atheist regimes:
(Stalin & Mao)
60,000,000 (recorded fact)
Wars and atrocities having nothing to do with religion:
(In just the 20th and 21st centuries since Darwinism was born)
318,685,000 (recorded fact)
I believe this statement by English Journalist, Steve Turner sums it up, sadly, all too well:
We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
“If chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is his rainbow in the sky, and when you hear
State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.”
Dec 22, 2010 @ 03:08:54
I love how they say ‘recorded fact’ and then… provide no references or whatever to back up this ‘fact’. Are they counting WWII under ‘wars having nothing to do with religion’? Is this the ‘Hitler was an atheist’ thing again?
And also: WTF is up with ‘Darwinism’ and what does it have to do with wars?
Jan 05, 2011 @ 14:39:42
I will be happy to provide the references. I have compiled these statistics from several history books and Wikipedia but most notably from the book “The Devil’s Delusion” written by an agnostic.
It is always amusing that you and others constantly try to usher in Hitler to the front of these statistics when he is not mentioned expressly. Though he is subsumed in them he himself was only responsible for around 10 million. Secondly, Hitler was no Christian as the bible clearly states:
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
If you or anyone else could produce evidence of Christian “fruits” from Hitler then you would have more legs to stand on. Every action he performed was antithetical to the bible. Likewise, anyone can label themselves a Christian without truly being one. What you and I (and everyone else) should agree on is that a world-view should never be judged by its abuse. Stalin and Mao’s motivations were both political and anti-religious. Both Stalin and Mao did many terrible things in their quest to rid the world of religion. Stalin murdered many religious peoples and forced the closure of churches. Mao personally told the Dali-lama that “religion poisons everything” and subsequently killed 87,000 Tibetans as well as thousands of Buddhists monks. What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what Pol Pot did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors, Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe was that God was watching what they were doing.
Jan 05, 2011 @ 16:06:04
Already did. Go check back on previous comments.
Jan 20, 2011 @ 12:44:16
Okay let me try a slightly different approach. By your analogy anyone can claim to be ‘mother’ Teresa, slash the throats of little children and still you would think they were ‘mother’ Teresa just because they said they were? This is very odd.
Please help me to understand which Christian ‘fruits’ Hitler produced.
Galatians 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.