Not disputing you but I’d be interested in how you arrived at this count.
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus, by far. The people who have been murdered in his name is probably close to or over a good billion, right?
He’s not really a “foundational figure of Christianity” though, his image was just co-opted by the Roman empire which then created the religion also co-opting the actual “Jewish revival” Jesus was at the core of (bringing the fundamentals of monotheism back into mind and expanding the teachings to everyone, not just a small select community).
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Completely eyeballed it but I included every Western imperialist project that was done with Bible in hand and chanting variations of “Deus Vult”, so that’s large chunks of Asia, most of Africa, all of Latin America, and every Western incursion on West Asia from the Crusades to Iran today. And let’s not forget the pagan persecution in the West itself by the Romans. That’s a shit ton of people through the ages, right?
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
WAG
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Jesus never asked for wars in his name though. It’s not part of his teachings.
Christianity changed a lot once it became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
However Christianity also brought a lot of positive social changes with the focus on forgiveness and helping the unfortunate for example.
It was spread by conquest, but also peaceful friendly missionaries. These missionaries often invented a writing system for the illiterate people they visited.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah the man was a prophet of peace, I’m not putting it on him. 👍