King Phenomenon
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Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
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That is a good question.Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
When is genocide not genocide?
When is genocide not genocide?
Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
I don't know but I do know/presume is that when people have been killed for religious reasons they are not doing what their God or prophet etc has said to do and not to do, they are are really anti religious reasons posing as religious reasons.
Often the fight to impose a version of god on some other group is the reason for war. And hundreds of millions of people have been killed under that pretext. However i am not sure how many have been killed for non religious reasons.
You do realize that reason and pretext are different, right?
BTW: how did you come to know that "often" religion is the reason while being unsure how "often" it was not?
Impossible to say I'd suggest. There will be far too much fuzziness around the definition of "atrocities", determining whether religion was a significant enough causal factor, directly or indirectly, plus the fact that for the vast majority of human history, there won't be anything like enough information available to be sure.Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
You do realize that reason and pretext are different, right?
Were there more people killed for non-religious than religious reasons in atrocities in history?
There will be far too much fuzziness around the definition of "atrocities", determining whether religion was a significant enough causal factor, directly or indirectly,
Have you read the OT?
Genocide is a term which is used to a greater or lesser extent depending upon whether or not those killed are "worthy vistims" or "unworthy victims" in the eyes of the perceiver, obviously for propaganda reasons. So the Chinese killing a lot of people may be called attempted genocide, whereas the same number of deaths perpetrated by, say, Saudi Arabia probably isn't genocide.I guess war.
There are parts where God was exercising His authority and bringing justice.
There are parts where the law was being broken and people were killed under the law.
There are parts where political action was being taken for the protection of Israel.