On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, L B wrote:
> --- Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au> wrote:
> > At 07:49 AM 10/07/2001 -0700, LB wrote:
> >
> > >I certainly think that if the poor Moslems would
> > stop
> > >blowing themselves to bits in trucks in attempts to
> > >take out the other religions and assorted
> > >nationalities they might be a lot farther up on the
> > >scale than they would fall at this moment.
> >
> > Actually, I think one of the major causes of
> > untimely death among Moslems
> > is more likely to be mass murder suffered at the
> > hands of the good and
> > godly Christians, like those in the former
> > Yugoslavia, for instance.
>
> True, and a lot of other people don't like them much
> either. Just seems like "religion", not any god, kills
> so many so young, regardless of what it is. It scares
> the hell out of me what we have made of belief and
> disbelief.
According to Guiness, the world's greatest slaughter of humans was under
the Maoists, who had an Atheistic religion. As I recall, it was 30-60 m.
FWP
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