From jefferis at petersonsales.net  Wed Nov  1 11:12:00 2006
From: jefferis at petersonsales.net (Jefferis Peterson)
Date: Wed Nov  1 12:12:31 2006
Subject: [Roundtable] Atheism's Body Count
Message-ID: <C16E3F90.4964C%jefferis@petersonsales.net>

I've a new article up. Here's the intro:
http://www.scholarscorner.com/apologia/deathtoll.html
 
Atheism's Body Count - Ideology and Human Suffering

Atheism's Murder Rate: More than 250 Million Dead in the Past Century

It is often argued by humanists and atheists that religion is responsible
for most of the suffering caused by war in human history. It is often argued
specifically that religious violence proves God does not exist.* While it is
true that religious wars have been notoriously bloody, and waged so contrary
to their founders' teachings, religion's followers have no exclusive corner
on the market when it comes to creating suffering. Atheism it seems is at
least as bad, if not worse. What follows is a brief, tongue-in-cheek,
rebuttal to humanism's utopian hope for a peaceful world through the
elimination of all religion:


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