BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA ***
CONFLICT Move for independence in 1991 brought Serb opposition and
ethnic cleansing
DEATH TOLL-- 200,000+
NORTHERN IRELAND **
CONFLICT 30 years of sectarian violence
DEATH TOLL-- 3,200
LIBERIA *
CONFLICT Seven-year civil war with ethnic overtones
DEATH TOLL-- 250,000
SUDAN **
CONFLICT Northern Muslims pitted against southern Christians and
animists
DEATH TOLL-- 1.9 million
RWANDA **
CONFLICT Majority: Hutu extremists tried to wipe out the Tutsi minority
DEATH TOLL-- 800,000-1 million
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/history.htmlChristian intolerance extended beyond fighting "infidels". It turned inward as well. The medieval Inquisition caused the death of more than one million people in the crusade against what was considered a "heretical" sect called the Albigensians in the South of France.
Of course it did not stop there, fresh from this "success" the Inquisition hunted down witches all over Europe. The death toll for the witch-hunts which terrorized Europe for three centuries (from 1487 to circa 1782) has been estimated to be as high as two million.
The Spaniards learned from these and came up with their own Spanish Inquisition. The death toll here exceeded thirty thousand. The victims ranged from girls as young as thirteen to women as old as ninety. Such was the extend of God's grace!
Of course persecution was not the only outlet for the Christian. War was another popular outlet for the religious instinct. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a spate of wars between the Catholics and the Protestants. These Wars of Religion were fought in the Benelux countries, France, Germany and the British Isles. The final death toll easily exceeded fourteen million.
Perhaps on of the most enduring "gifts" of Christianity to the world is anti-semitism. This hatred of the Jews, rooted in the New Testament, propagated by the early Church Fathers gave the church and the laity the excuse to slaughter Jews at the tiniest of instigations. Christianity holds a large part of the responsibility for the holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered in World War II.
Lets not forget those enslaved because their God was a lesser god... and sacrifices to god... Parts of this page below..
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm#TotalDedication of a temple in Tenochtitlan by Aztec king Ahuitzotl (ca. 1520): 80,000 human sacrifices. (PGtH)
July 2003 Nat. Geographic: 13,000 human sacrifices in last 250 years of rule (ca. 1300-1050 BCE)
India, Ashoka's Conquest of Kalinga (261 BCE)
According to an Ashokan edict, "100,000 were slain and many times that number died". He was horrified by the slaughter, repented and converted to Buddhism.
838 CE - Siege of Amorium: 70,000 Moslem and 30,000 Christians.
Motassem sacrifices 200,000 lives
929 CE - Carmathian rebellion in Arabia: 20,000 pilgrims left to die in the desert; 30,000 put to the sword in Mecca.
First Turkish raid into East Roman Empire: 130,000 Christians
1076 CE - Atsiz the Carizmian conquers Jerusalem: 3,000 massacred
TOTAL: 698,200 listed in these episodes here.
Delhi (1398)
James Trager, The People's Chronology (1992): 100,000 Hindu prisoners massacred at Delhi
Exodus 32: 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf.
Numbers 31: After killing all men, boys and married women among the Midianites, 32,000 virgins remain as booty for the Israelites. (If unmarried girls are a quarter of the population, then 96,000 people were killed.)
Joshua:
Joshua 8: 12,000 men and women, all the people of Ai, killed.
Joshua 10: Joshua completely destroys Gibeon ("larger than Ai"), Makeddah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, Debir. "He left no survivors."
Joshua 11: Hazor destroyed. [Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1987), estimates the population of Hazor at ?> 50,000]
TOTAL: if Ai is average, 12,000 x 9 = 108,000 killed.
Judges 1: 10,000 Canaanites k. at Battle of Bezek. Jerusalem and Zephath destroyed.
Judges 3: ca. 10,000 Moabites k. at Jordan River.
Judges 8: 120,000 Midianite soldiers k. by Gideon
Judges 20: Benjamin attacked by other tribes. 25,000 killed.
1 Samuel 4: 4,000 Isrealites killed at 1st Battle of Ebenezer/Aphek. 30,000 Isr. k. at 2nd battle.
David:
2 Samuel 8: 22,000 Arameans of Damascus and 18,000 Edomites killed in 2 battles.
2 Samuel 10: 40,000 Aramean footsoldiers and 7,000 charioteers killed at Helam.
2 Samuel 18: 20,000 Israelites under Absalom killed at Ephraim.
1 Kings 20: 100,000 Arameans killed by Israelites at Battle of Aphek. Another 27,000 killed by collapsing wall.
2 Chron 13: Judah beat Israel and inflicted 500,000 casualties.
2 Chron 28: Amaziah, king of Judah, k. 10,000 from Seir in battle and executed 10,000 POWs. Discharged Judean soldiers pillaged and killed 3,000.
2 Chron 28: Pekah, king of Israel, slew 120,000 Judeans
TOTAL: That comes to about 1,283,000 mass killings specifically enumerated in the Bible. The battle of 2_Chron_13 is so much larger than all the others that we probably should doubt it.
Martyrdom at Soviet hands:
1921-50: 15M Christians in prison camps
1950-80: 5M Christians in prison camps
Orthodox: 14.5M k. by Stalin, 2.7M of them martyrs (1929-37)
Roman Catholics (1925): 1.2M martyrs
By Mongols
1214: Genghiz Khan massacres 6M Christians: 4M martyrs
1214: Diocese of Herat sacked by Genghiz Khan: 1M
1258: massacre in Baghdad by Hulaku Khan: 1.1M
1358: Tamerlane destroys 15-million-strong Nestorians: 4M martyrs
Conquistadors kill 15 million Amerindians: 2M martyrs (1560)
Christians executed by Nazis in death camps: 1M
Nazis exterminate 0.5M Gypsies
Khmer Rouge slaughter 2M (1975)
Kurds massacre 20,000 Nestorians (1843)
Massacre of 40,000 Vietnamese Catholics (1970)
The Ottawa Citizen (20 Dec. 1998)
15M Christians d. in Soviet prison camps because of their faith.
citing Paul Marshall, Their Blood Cries Out
ca. 400,000 Chinese Christians died during the Cultural Revolution.
ca. 100,000 Christians k by Idi Amin (out of 300,000 total k.)
Up to 500,000 Rwandan Christians died as witnesses to their faith (out of 700,000 total k.) (1994)
Citing D. Barret, Our Globe and How to Reach It
40M Christians martyred throughout history.
ca. 8M k. by other Christians
How accurate are these numbers? Well, at first glance, I'm sure that they overstate the number of Christians in Central Asia before Genghis and Tamerlane, and I can't recall any event in recorded history that put 676,000 Christians at the mercy of Hindus. And I'm not sure what they mean by 'Quasi-religionists'. And a million Bahai's? No way. But all in all, this is a lot of people..
