tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post7727677787198172831..comments2023-10-04T05:09:54.848-05:00Comments on Contra Mundum: Don't Lump Christianity in When You Blame Religion For the World's TroubleAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908788730958708701noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5331156725554508589.post-72785823132173866872015-01-07T16:44:39.371-06:002015-01-07T16:44:39.371-06:00Blaming generic "religion" has become a ...Blaming generic "religion" has become a mere cliche, and it exposes the cobwebs of the secular Left's collective mind.<br /><br />Prof. Rudolph Rummel of the U. of Hawaii estimated that the numbers of people killed over the 20th century's ideologies (all of which presupposed evolutionary materialism) was roughly 169,000,000 in _Death by Government_. After his initial publication, Dr. Rummel revised his figures upwards. In any case, he came up with a number far larger than all who were killed for heresy or unbelief in the 15 centuries between the conversion of Constantine and Napoleon's shutting down the Spanish Inquisition.<br /><br />We are all taught to abhor the Spanish Inquistion (rightly, to this Protestant who descends in part from Sephardic Jews). But in Spain itself, the Inquisition put to death a bit more than 4000 people between 1484 and 1804. That was roughly a year's body count during the internecine strife of the Spanish Left in the 1930's.<br /><br />Even in our relatively tame United States, those who loudly decry the "dehumanization" of "the other" (minorities, women, sexual deviants) also loudly call their opponents "fascist insect" or other such epithets. Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.com