Bigger travesty: Slavery vs. Holocaust

Originally Posted by Pangalin

By a strict measure of sheer bodycount, the worldwide history of slavery wipes the floor with anything else you might care to name.

Religion?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

Religion is an idea, it is not an event in itself. It has no bodycount per se.

Also, loving your sheer pettiness here. "Dudes, enslaving your fellow man is pretty bad and has been going on forever " "STILL NOT AS BAD AS JESUS THOUGH!!!!!"

Fine, Christianity. Between the Inquisition, the Crusades, the various Witch Trials, the colonization and forceful conversion of North and South America, they're doing rather well on that count. If you REALLY want to be specific, you could make note of things like the fact that the Vatican objected to Hitler's euthanasia policies but not the holocaust and that one of the main justifications of the holocaust in Germany was Christian superiority and attribute the holocaust there too.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Come off your high horse. It's been used as an excuse throughout time that since the Jews "killed Jesus", they're inferior and need to be punished. Christianity has never, ever been about what the Bible says as much as it is about using the Bible to justify whatever the people in power want.

The Bible has been used to justify hatred and oppression of Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Blacks, Women, Native Americans, and pretty much any other group that isn't "White Christian Men" throughout the course of time. This shouldn't be news to anyone.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Because Women never commit violent crimes.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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PS. Why are all non-religious people so anti-religion? It can't just be "oh they believe in god, whatever" Its, "Why are people so stupid religion causes war, cancer, and erectile disfunction~"
Its like they are terrified of the though of someone thinking differently then them. I'm not saying Arainach is doing that, but I see it all the time elsewhere

Simple: I leave them be as long as they leave me be. They're perfectly fine until they start legislating their morality on me. And given that today's churches are nothing but disguised PACs, I despise all organized religions.

Some religious people are great individuals. But without exception I haven't found a religion (except Quakerism and Buddhism) that isn't an intrusive crock of shit.

I was speaking idiomatically.