So Erik Bolling, of Fox News says zero people have ever been killed in the name of any religion, except for Islam. Bolling said:
This is all in the context of Obama's remarks at the nation prayer
breakfast. I am a freelance journalist and medieval historian. I wrote
about this for the Guardian.
I wrote, among other things:
Don't get me started. It never seems to fill my mind with wonder about how, while religions have killed heretics for things like blasphemy and refusal to honor their ideas, ideals and scriptures, seeking to wipe out any and all opposition, even from scientists who can prove what they claim. While scientists, have never killed anyone, allowing everyone to believe whatever they choose to believe. Have never taken over from superstitious.
Scientists have successfully spread their beliefs without arresting, imprisoning, torturing or executing a soul. While the "Sacred Words of Love Everlasting" has needed to spread it's fare by dint of force of torture, fears of death and war. You'd think that the peaceful scientists would have won out by now, but, as we can see, that is far from the case.
Reports say radical Muslim jihadists killed thousands of people in the past few months alone. And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion––well, that would be zero.
It’s a mistake to believe in Christian exceptionalism – the idea that Christianity alone has solved its problems – while other religions are still “medieval”. One of history’s lessons is that any ideology, sacred or secular, that divides the world into ‘us versus them’ can and will be used to justify violence.
But when we talk about the past, we’re often really talking about ourselves. In my scholarship, for instance, I look at the ways in which medieval people developed stories about holy war as a response to contemporary problems – which often had little to do with the Crusades. READ MORE------------------comment------------
Don't get me started. It never seems to fill my mind with wonder about how, while religions have killed heretics for things like blasphemy and refusal to honor their ideas, ideals and scriptures, seeking to wipe out any and all opposition, even from scientists who can prove what they claim. While scientists, have never killed anyone, allowing everyone to believe whatever they choose to believe. Have never taken over from superstitious.
Scientists have successfully spread their beliefs without arresting, imprisoning, torturing or executing a soul. While the "Sacred Words of Love Everlasting" has needed to spread it's fare by dint of force of torture, fears of death and war. You'd think that the peaceful scientists would have won out by now, but, as we can see, that is far from the case.
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