Crotchity Geezer
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“Furthermore, the unbelievers have, as I read history, done less harm to the world than the believers. They have not filled it with savage wars or snarled casuistries, with crusades or persecutions, with complacency or ignorance.
01:01 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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They have, instead, done what they could to fill it with knowledge and beauty, with temperance and justice, with manners and laughter. They have numbered among themselves some of the most distinguished specimens of mankind.
01:01 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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And when they have been undistinguished, they have surely not been inferior to the believers in the fine art of minding their own affairs and so of enlarging the territories of peace.
01:01 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.
05:32 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.” - Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari
05:32 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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Shmarya Rosenberg
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In response to Crotchity Geezer.
The Soviet Union murdered millions of people and imprisoned and enslaved millions more. Maoist China committed similar crimes and has two million Muslims in concentration camps. Roman emperors killed huge numbers of people. Most weren’t religious in the way we understand the term. Same with the Huns
01:13 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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Blair Houghton
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In response to Shmarya Rosenberg.
Not one of them a democracy. Next.
01:24 PM - Apr 13, 2024
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