Aug 18, 2007, 12:07 AM
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The Holocaust lead to more malicious torture and pain, I think, as a lot of what was done to the Jews was done just because the German's didn't like them, and a lot of what was done to the slaves was to keep them in line. There was also not as much deliberate killing proportionally, because slaves had a purpose and Jews were apparently just a problem.
That said, in both situations an entire people were deemed as "sub human" and treated worse than men usually treat their animals. There's really no way to compare, they both sucked.
Also, wow some people are really anti Christian. I'm personally agnostic and don't care either way, and I don't know that much about Christianity's history, but I can say that there's been a hell of a lot of killing in Asia that had pretty much nothing to do with religion. In fact, by sheer number of deaths alone, the Holocaust pales to the Great Leap Forward and then the Cultural Revolution in China when the CCP came to power, and religion practically didn't exist any more at that time. Hell Japan has attacked Korea out of sheer boredom before. Disagreements over religion has caused a great deal of death, but there are parts of the world where the fighting between religious factions wasn't nearly as bad, and we didn't need any of that to kill people. I personally think religion just serves as a mask for some people's greed; if they weren't religious they'd probably be assholes anyway, but since they are it provides a handy excuse for them to not feel like assholes.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Aurora; Aug 18, 2007 at 12:26 AM.
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