Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Religion is the greatest source of evil in the world. More wars have been fought and more blood has been shed in the name of God than for any other cause — many sceptics, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, et al.

If you are a Christian and heard/read the quoted statement above you might have felt as embarrassed as I did when I first came across it quite a while back.

If you are not particularly sympathetic to religion in general, and Christianity in particular, you may have treasured/used the statement as an irrefutable silencer for religionists who dare to invade your cerebral higher sphere with their religious nonsense.

Well, years ago I stumbled on a book by a Christian scholar that argued that a careful check of the Guinness Book of World Records raised serious doubts about the accuracy of the statement.

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