"If Satan existed and wanted to bring suffering to mankind he might:
- create religions that could tolerate no other religions "
There are only two religions that do not tolerate any other religions....
a. Islam
b. Your religion, Militant Secularism
You don't know your history. Paganism welcomed all gods into it's pantheon. Jews had no issues with pagans, Christians, or Muslims. Muslims, though hardly perfectly tolerant, considered Jews and Christians to be 'people of the book' and, after their conquests were stopped, generally tolerated them with some restrictions. Christianity is a different animal. Throughout history Catholics waged war on Protestants, Protestants waged war on Catholics, and Christians waged war on Jews and Pagans and Muslims. There were probably thousands of religions in the Americas before Columbus. How many are left?
Let's check on the record of your religion....Militant Secularism.
"Over the past 100 years the most oppressive ideology in the world has been communism [Marxism].
While the people who lived under it were starved, tortured and murdered, its leaders lived in luxury.
The suppression of ordinary people by their communist rulers far surpasses anything capitalist employers were ever accused of doing. While condemning exploitation, communist dictators turned out to be masters at it.
a.
R.J. Rummel estimates that
almost 170 million people were killed in the 20th century by their own governments. These are not deaths in war. They are the victims of genocide by the governments in the countries where they lived.
Hate on the Left
Perhaps you'd rather compare records of yours and that of the Founders:
Some people blame organized religion for most of history's killings. It is also sometimes claimed that more people have been killed in the name of Christ than for any other reason.
The total number of deaths estimated to lie at the feet of humanity's poor practice of Christianity is approximately 17 million. This number would include ancient wars, the
Crusades, the
Inquisitions, various European wars during the Middle Ages, and witchcraft trials.
So to everyone familiar with the Bible's instructions for human conduct, it is obvious which actions throughout history have been truly representative of God and the Bible, and which have not. Any murder in the name of Christ is wrong. But as we have seen, the greatest acts of crime and killing have
not been instigated by people professing to follow Jesus. The numbers:
- Judaism and Christianity throughout history: 17,000,000
- Anti- or irreligious forces over the last 100 years:
6,000,000 + 9,000,000 + 40,000,000 + 24,000,000 + 25,000,000 + 22,000,000 + 2,000,000 + 1,000,000,000 =
1,128,000,000
Now go wash the blood off your paws.