tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post111806664492444409..comments2023-10-06T12:28:48.452-04:00Comments on Spinning Clio: "Religion is the key to history"Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1805521181351829532007-05-15T15:51:00.000-04:002007-05-15T15:51:00.000-04:00He's not talking about "secular 'wars'" hes talkin...He's not talking about "secular 'wars'" hes talking about deaths that where due to secular ideology, deaths that can be causally linked to a world view that leads to genocide.<BR/><BR/>For instance the product of the ideology that triumphed "reason" and "science" over "blind faith" such as Nazism and communism.<BR/><BR/>Its not a meaningless fact when it is used to counter the not only meaningless yet absolute FALSE fact , the claim that "more people where killed in the name of God than any other reason."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1118685069772941142005-06-13T13:51:00.000-04:002005-06-13T13:51:00.000-04:00"It’s a simple fact, for example, that, contrary t..."It’s a simple fact, for example, that, contrary to the current scapegoating of religion, more people were slaughtered during the 20th century under secularist regimes, led by secularist intellectuals, and in the name of secularist ideologies, than in all the religious persecutions in Western history."<BR/><BR/>That's a meaningless "fact" unless restated in a relative way. Of course more people were killed in 20th century "secular" wars (I assume WWI & WWII) than, say, during the Crusades, because there were more people on earth in the 20th century than during the time of the Crusades.AYDIN ÖRSTANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09891160904748206385noreply@blogger.com