gwallan said:

@Female
You are not boring.
Some other adjectives maybe but never boring.

I beg to differ.

Female said:
Phillazyjournalist, I see your living up to your reputation as a journalist. You have misquoted Ian and put his words in my mouth. Good job.

wolfe, the fallen trees all over your land have skewed my boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate. Thankfully there are no noxious paint fumes in my new little den.

phillazyjournalist said:

You want me to actually find out who said what before making sweeping statements? And people normally do that?

It is slightly unfortunate, if they weren’t your words, but by God they were boring. Mind you: “boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate..” Do you genuinely talk like that? A little pretentious, non?

@phillazyjournalist
It’s generally a good idea to look around a bit before you start insulting the regulars so, yes, you maybe should find out. Particularly relevant in an environment where some satire is involved.

Female’s comment was quite clearly directed at wolfe and he would have understood precisely what she meant.

@Female
You are not boring.
Some other adjectives maybe but never boring.

I really shouldn’t Kerr, but I think Female was misspelling Boyer-Lindquist.

-wolfe

Sorry, I can’t be arsed to look and link. And I’m not sure the blog owner would approve of me taking the liberty.

Cheers.

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phillazyjournalist said:

You want me to actually find out who said what before making sweeping statements? And people normally do that?

The irony is killing me. You’re not a real journalist are you now?

It is slightly unfortunate, if they weren’t your words, but by God they were boring. Mind you: “boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate..� Do you genuinely talk like that? A little pretentious, non?

Strangely enough, no, I don’t normally talk like that and again, your investigative skills have let you down. I hope you hang around to play and continue to tell me I am very boring, for you are far more amusing than you know.

It is slightly unfortunate, if they weren’t your words, but by God they were boring. Mind you: “boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate..” Do you genuinely talk like that? A little pretentious, non?

Female said:

Phillazyjournalist, I see your living up to your reputation as a journalist. You have misquoted Ian and put his words in my mouth. Good job.

wolfe, the fallen trees all over your land have skewed my boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate. Thankfully there are no noxious paint fumes in my new little den.

wolfe, the fallen trees all over your land have skewed my boyer-linquist coordinates and had me move to a less hostile climate. Thankfully there are no noxious paint fumes in my new little den.

wolfe said:

Phillazyjournalist, Female has apparently thankfully finally accepted advice and vanished. That said, you’re a trifle unkind, especially for a newcomer. I’m a wolf; I defend the pack. She was a pack member, albeit the crazy one on the outskirts that lapped lead-based paint.

She was smart enough to not make what she wrote pseudo-intellectual. She meant it, and wrote it sincerely.

Now, you’re welcome to the site. Enjoy.

-wolfe

She was smart enough to not make what she wrote pseudo-intellectual. She meant it, and wrote it sincerely.

Now, you’re welcome to the site. Enjoy.

-wolfe

Ian McLeod said:

Female said:

The figure is closer to 200 million, but your assertion as to “most exacerbated by religious conflict” is misinformation perpetrated by pseudo-intellectuals who are biased against religion Quantitatively, yes, most individual conflicts do have a religious connection, so what they are saying is true, but their implication is that religion causes more…

Ian McLeod said:

The figure is closer to 200 million, but your assertion as to “most exacerbated by religious conflict” is misinformation perpetrated by pseudo-intellectuals who are biased against religion Quantitatively, yes, most individual conflicts do have a religious connection, so what they are saying is true, but their implication is that religion causes more bloodshed than non-religion. In terms of actual loss of life, however, most bloodshed in the 20th century was caused by Communist atheists.

Very well said, Iain. Quite true.

The IRA conflict in Ireland, Catholics versus Protestants, has a whopping 2000 casualties. Combined wars caused by militant Christians over a strictly religious casus belli account for fewer than 100,000 deaths globally in the last century.

It’s worth noting that even this conflict had a substantial atheistic/communist link. Many of the core IRA were Marxist revolutionaries who sought to establish a ‘People’s Republic’ in Ireland.

-wolfe

Female said:

In the last 100 years, 160 million people have died in wars and genocides. The vast majority perpetuated by men and most exacerbated by religious conflict. In other words, put the bible down Billy, you’re a terrible preacher and are quoting it to win a point and promote further conflict, not to be a peacemaker.

The figure is closer to 200 million, but your assertion as to “most exacerbated by religious conflict” is misinformation perpetrated by pseudo-intellectuals who are biased against religion Quantitatively, yes, most individual conflicts do have a religious connection, so what they are saying is true, but their implication is that religion causes more bloodshed than non-religion. In terms of actual loss of life, however, most bloodshed in the 20th century was caused by Communist atheists. Let me give you a breakdown of who caused what wars. I’ll combine civillian and military deaths (where available and not already combined), since all humans are equal. I’ve taken figures from several of the top Google sites for “wars and casualties of 20th century,” and those sites in turn have citations. One excellent site has a list accounting for about 160,000,000 of the deaths: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html

Of course, available data is inconsistent in many conflicts, so any effort to create a 100% accurate tally of deaths is impossible.

My math brought me to about 190,000,000 deaths. This figure does not include deaths from plagues during the aftermaths of conflicts except where they were included in my source data. I’m going to round my percentages somewhat below:

27,970,000 deaths were caused directly by strictly religious/racist conflict and genocide in the past century. About half of these deaths were caused by Islamic states, with the balance going to tribal conflicts and the Holocost.

Communism (atheist regimes) accounted for more than half the bloodshed, coming in at 102,200,000 deaths. This is only accounting for available figures, the actual number of deaths is unknown and could be as high as 120,000,000 (most of the unaccounted would come from China). I include 1/3rd of the World War II casualties in this, though that particular figure isn’t the most accurate. Atheist fanaticism killed far more people than religious fanaticism.

The balance of the figure (about 60,000,000) are the result of other economic and political issues (tariffs, breaches of treaty, contested boundaries, etc.) including 2/3rds of the deaths of World War II. Most of the states involved have religious majorities, but religion was not a strong enough casus belli to be a credible argument.

The IRA conflict in Ireland, Catholics versus Protestants, has a whopping 2000 casualties. Combined wars caused by militant Christians over a strictly religious casus belli account for fewer than 100,000 deaths globally in the last century.

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sonyad said:

Empires still pwn Republics, btw.

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I can’t believe a Romanian is saying this.

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I apologise for writing ill to the croaked.

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