buskie13:
Where did u get ur stats from?

if you were to look at stats; judging from stats in the bible satan only killed 10 people compared to the countless amount of people killed by God in the bible

winner01:
Thanks dear.
bolt000, you may need to check out this thread; https://www.nairaland.com/2988881/atheism-terrorism-annihilation-quest-atheistic
it will give you more info on atheism and terrorism.

In the past 100 years alone, atheistic leaders and their governments under the banner of atheistic communism have caused the death of somewhere between 158,368,610 to 259,432,000 human lives. The historical record of collective atheism is thus 182,716 times worse on an annual basis than Christianity’s worst and most infamous misdeed, the Spanish Inquisition. This means that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them.

bolt000:
But that didn't include some of God's most impressive slaughters. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? The Bible doesn't say, so there's no way to know for sure. But it's possible to provide rough estimates in order to get a grand total, and that's what I'm attempting here.

Total with estimates: 25 million.

winner01:
Let me pretend to agree with you. Even at 50 million, it still pales in comparison with atheisms over 200 million lives lost within a mere 100 yesrs.

Isaacmacdon:
Didn't bother reading cos the "logical ones" or "atheist" has got nothing to offer other than mere questions cradled with the dirt of human reasoning. This here is an example. Moreover, the o.p didn't state what type of faith because in the present world today, the word "faith" has been misunderstood. Faith is not speaking into existence, it is hoping nd believing in your heart that God would do a new thing. Read the scriptures nd you'd see instances of faith.

adeaks:
And what happens when they stand up to scrutiny? Would you then believe that God exists?

winner01:
No one is threatening you with anything. You people claim that the bible is hogwash, You don't believe in the Bible so why bother with a "lie"? .. The fact that you feel this threatened proves that you do believe in God.

winner01:
No one is threatening you with anything. You people claim that the bible is hogwash, You don't believe in the Bible so why bother with a "lie"? .. The fact that you feel this threatened proves that you do believe in God.

bolt000:
You'll Be Pardoned Because You Didnt Read The Post.

buskie13:
Where did u get ur stats from?

Seun:
I would be shocked if that happened, but yes, I would be forced to change my mind based on what the evidence actually proves or strongly suggests. I am not an atheist by wilful unbelief. I am an atheist because the evidence for any God is just not there. The things touted as evidence are fabricated, twisted, exxagerated, misinterpreted, etc. The more you look, the less you see.

Seun:
I would be shocked if that happened, but yes, I would be forced to change my mind based on what the evidence actually proves or strongly suggests. I am not an atheist by wilful unbelief. I am an atheist because the evidence for any God is just not there. The things touted as evidence are fabricated, twisted, exxagerated, misinterpreted, etc. The more you look, the less you see.

Seun:
All the people killed in religious conflicts in history were killed in the name of God. The genocide of Canaan in the Bible (which probably never happened), the Christian crusades, the various Islamic jihads, radical Islamist terror attacks, etc. I've not heard about any conflict in which people were fighting and killing other people in the name of Satan.

aaronson:
Oga Seun has really said enough but let me quickly clarify one misconception.

Theist (believer) and Atheist (Unbeliever)

What that above means, We Atheist don't assert that God don't exist because we can't prove his non existence rather, We choose not to believe because we can't stay in the same universe with such a megalomaniac God who wants to be praised all the time, I mean all the time.

Flipping the script

The burden of PROOF lies on theists to prove the existence of their God and if they can't they got psychological problem which is abnormal and to combat that abnormality, they come up with a defence mechanism called FAITH.

So I guess that's what Seun is tryna address but in one word, All what Seun was tryna say is "FAITH IS BLIND".

winner01:
Let me pretend to agree with you. Even at 50 million, it still pales in comparison with atheisms over 200 million lives lost within a mere 100 yesrs.

Seun:
Faith in anything that is not true is bad. More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of the devil.

bolt000:
You Hit The Nail Right On The Head.. 100%

Seun:
I would be shocked if that happened, but yes, I would be forced to change my mind based on what the evidence actually proves or strongly suggests. I am not an atheist by wilful unbelief. I am an atheist because the evidence for any God is just not there. The things touted as evidence are fabricated, twisted, exxagerated, misinterpreted, etc. The more you look, the less you see.

aaronson:
Thank you sir'.

Iamsynord:
I am of the opinion that most People Confuse Religion with the existence of God ...
... God exists but religion is sham..

God existence is not in all these miracles or religion , it is in the mind.. It is subconscious and reacts with thinking...A part of you cant deny it.. Your mind and soul connects with it.

The God might not be in the line of most religious doctrines but there is a part of it that tells, guides and protect you.... Your subconsciousness..

Seun:

According to the Mariam-Webster dictionary, religion is "the belief in a god or in a group of gods" (source). As long as you believe in God, what you're practicing is still religion. What you are against is organized religion and what you're promoting is personal religion, but it's still religion.

This is an exercise in semantics: "God is my subconscious. My subconscious exists. Therefore God exists". My rebuttal to this is to say let us stick to the dictionary definition of God: "the perfect and all-powerful spirit or being that is worshipped especially by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as the one who created and rules the universe" (source). If you don't believe in the God in the dictionary, you don't believe in God. Also, I suspect that you have no evidence for the claim that there's a supernatural thing in your subconscious that guides and protects you.

Oladim001:
I thought you said you were gonna change the topic to a less ambiguous one.

Seun:

According to the Mariam-Webster dictionary, religion is "the belief in a god or in a group of gods" (source). As long as you believe in God, what you're practicing is still religion. What you are against is organized religion and what you're promoting is personal religion, but it's still religion.

This is an exercise in semantics: "God is my subconscious. My subconscious exists. Therefore God exists". My rebuttal to this is to say let us stick to the dictionary definition of God: "the perfect and all-powerful spirit or being that is worshipped especially by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as the one who created and rules the universe" (source). If you don't believe in the God in the dictionary, you don't believe in God. Also, I suspect that you have no evidence for the claim that there's a supernatural thing in your subconscious that guides and protects you.

HARDDON:
You don't have faith ? Yet u sleep @ night with d bliv you wud wake up to see the brightness of a new dawn?

Faith idea is bad yet u live life hoping for the best?


Faith idea is bad yet you have a lot of answers hanging over ur neck unanswered? N your mind can't think them tru? So u really evolved from apes?

Faith idea is bad ? go read up d history of all those who walk by sight.....

To live is to have faith whether consciously or otherwise.

You can't see beyond your nose in this wicked world yet u claim faith idea is bad?

If u don't know what faith is, here let's help u: it is the substance of things hoped for, the very evidence of things not yet visible.

In a nutshell, it is bliving with total assuarance b4 seeing it come to fruition.

If faith idea is bad, then humans ain't really living but merely existing like every other lower animals