how many people have died in the name of religion?
my god is obviously better than yours. I will kill you for it.
here is an interesting list copied from the WEB. not sure how accurate it is. some of these seem a little out there.
- The Crusades: 6,000,000
- Thirty Years War: 11,500,000
- French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000
- Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000
- Lebanese Civil War: 250,000
- Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000
- Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II): 13,000,000
- Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000
- Rwandan Genocide: 800,000
- Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000
- Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000
- Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000
- First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000
- Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the Holocaust): 1,000,000
- The Holocaust (Jewish and Homosexual Deaths): 6,500,000
- Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000
- Iraq War: 500,000
- US Western Expansion (Justified by "Manifest Destiny"):20,000,000
- Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by Christianity): 14,000,000
- Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000
- AIDS deaths in Africa largely due to opposition to condoms: 30,000,000
- Spanish Inquisition: 5,000