The 20th century — the first universally secular century
— is the most violent century in recorded human history.
Most of the violence has been committed by
"governments."
Most of the violence committed by "governments" has
been against innocent, non-combatant civilians.
Most of the violence committed by "governments"
against innocent, non-combatant civilians has been against
"their own" citizens, not external
"enemies."
The statistics to prove these
assertions have been assembled by Prof.
R.J. Rummel:
Ten Thousand Government Murders per DAY
Last year in America, over 10,000 people were
illegally murdered by gangs, mafia hit-men, and sometimes family
and neighbors.
But in the 20th century, about 10,000 were
murdered each and every single day -- legally -- by governments.
Do the Math:
Prof. Rummel's calculations of 20th
Century Democide: 262,000,000
- divide by 100 to get yearly average: 2,620,000 per year
- divide by 365 to get daily average: 7,178.08219178... per
day
Rummel's numbers are not on the high side. Rummel does not
include combat deaths and executions in his definition of "democide."
World
War II casualties often include civilian deaths which Rummel
would classify as "democide.":
- 72,000,000 total casualties = 720,000 deaths per year =
1,972.6 per day
- 25,000,000 combat deaths = 150,000 deaths per year = 684.9
per day
- This is only WWII, and does not include WWI or any of
hundreds of other wars during the 20th century.
We're confident that an average of 10,000 people have been
murdered by governments every single day (on
average) during the 20th century.
This number does not include abortions, which are legalized
murders. Today, approximately 135,000
human beings are put to death every day through
abortion.
This Is the Number of Innocent People Murdered by Governments. Are You Anti-State Yet? - Reason.com
Doesn't the Government protect our Right to Life?
Governments claim to protect their people from murderers.
There are only a few thousand murders per year. Thus, in order
to have a "government" protect us from one death, we
allow the government to kill hundreds of times more people than
it saves.
Rudolph
Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark headed an
international team of jurists and scholars and convicted
the United States of War Crimes
in the "Gulf War." Their
findings shock the conscience.
Do You Care About What
God Really Cares
About?
Many people claim to be on God's Side. What does
God really stand for? What does God stand against? If
you believe the Bible tells us anything at all about God, you
must admit that God hates violence.
The earth also
was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
{12} So
God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. {13}
And God said to Noah, "The end of
all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis
6:11-13
If you don't believe the account of Noah's Flood is literal,
you must still acknowledge the point of the story: God
hates violence.
Yet you won't hear a word about violence in most churches.
You seldom hear practical advice on how to follow the Prince of
Peace in a world filled with vengeance. When the government
declares a "national emergency," or "martial
law," "good Christians" are the first to don the
brownshirts and kill their brothers and sisters in Christ when
the government declares them to be "enemies of the
State."
"Christian patriots" support the moral legitimacy
of organized murder. This is incredible. They need to read their
Bibles and experience a "paradigm
shift." Christians must never kill for the Empire.
America's Founding Fathers:
Government
does not protect us; religion
and morality does.
America is not based on the premise that
"the government" brings peace and prosperity.
America
is based on the premise that the practice of Christianity
brings peace and prosperity.
Christianity leads to Paradise;
Atheism
leads to Democide
The
Soviet Government's Holocaust
by Michael Chapman
"The Socialist Workers' Paradise" =
the death of millions of workers
The premise of Enlightenment Humanism
is the premise of Satan
in the Garden of Eden: every human being can be his own god,
determining "good" and "evil" for himself.
Christianity commands us to be the servant
of others, to love our neighbor. Humanist philosopher Jean-Paul
Sartre admitted that if "God is dead," my neighbor is
the devil -- an intolerable rival god.
If America's Founding Fathers could see where
Enlightenment Humanism has led -- to secular governments that
have claimed messianic divinity and annihilated hundreds of
millions of human beings -- they would have repudiated the
Enlightenment more strongly. They would have seen that the
doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of social order.
They would agree more fervently that the
Bible is a textbook of law and political science.
Other Links:
The
Rule of Hell: Evolution and Genocide
Dresden
and Total War: The Triumph of Humanism
Secular
Humanist Urges Extermination of 15,000 Per Hour
The Case Against Violence
Beat Swords Into Plowshares
A Biblical Defense of Pacifism
How a Calvinist Became a Pacifist
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