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Mary Brownell's avatar

"Millions of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity". Uh-huh, and then there are the millions who died under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others too numerous too mention throughout history, because of their ideology or they just wanted power--nothing to do with any deity. Maybe people can just be really horrible, and those who try to believe that a loving God wants them to love others too follow more positive principles. "Tikkun olam"--"repairing of the world" in Judaism; "Whatever you do to the least of others you do to me"--Christianity; and I am sure there is something like that to cite in Buddhism, Hinduism, or Islam, but I don't know them.

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JimO's avatar

That reminds me of that Stalin quote "The murder of an individual is a tragedy but murder of a million is a statistic."

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