
Originally Posted by
Holmes
i dont know all history events but id say atheists and communists killed the most
Mussolini hated Christianity
Really? How many deaths can actually be attributed to Mussolini? In comparison to hundreds of years of the inquisition following the
reconquista in Spain, the mass slaughter of aboriginals by the Spanish, and later by the Americans. The Muslim-Christian conflicts of the Sudan and the Balkans, the Jewish-Muslim conflicts of the Israel region, the Sunni-Shia conflicts between Iraq and Iran, the Hindu-Muslim conflicts of the Indian peninsula, or the Muslim-Buddhist conflicts of Cambodia and Laos.
And let's not forget that the Italian people were mostly Catholic, and they were hardly blameless in the actions of Mussolini. On the other hand of the fascist you have Franco in Spain who set up a Catholic theocracy, the Japanese who were Shinto Buddhist and deified their emperor, and Hitler was either an agnostic or a weakly practicing Catholic. Moreover, none of these leaders failed to use religion as a rallying point of their people no matter what their personal beliefs were.
As to Stalinist USSR, the Western Europeans managed to kill more Russians in the World Wars than Stalin ever managed. The communist Chinese are certainly responsible for a fair amount of atrocities as well, but once again it is hardly not comparable to the actions of Americans in Vietnam and the centuries of European colonialism, as well as the bloody and brutal occupation by the Japanese.