I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42
In a previous post, I've listed and counted God's killings in the Bible. But I only included those that said exactly how many were killed by God. I came up with 2,391,421.
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. (New total: 33 million.)
| SAB, Brick Testament | Number Killed | Cummulative Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| God drowns everyone on earth (except Noah and his family) | Genesis 7:23, BT | 30,000,000? | 30,000,000 |
| God rains fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, killing everyone. | Gen.19:24, BT | 1000? | 30,001,000 |
| Lot's wife for looking back | Gen.19:26, BT | 1 | 30,001,001 |
| Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord" | Gen.38:7, 1 Chr.2:3, BT | 1 | 30,001,002 |
| Onan for spilling his seed | Gen.38:10, BT | 1 | 30,001,003 |
| 7th Egyptian Plague: Hail | Exodus 9:25, BT | 30,000? | 30,031,003 |
| God kills every Egyptian firstborn child. | Ex.12:29-30, BT | 500,000? | 30,531,003 |
| God drowns Egyptian army | Ex.14:28, BT | 1000? | 30,532,003 |
| God and Moses help Joshua kill the Amalekites | Ex.17:13, BT | 1000? | 30,533,003 |
| For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf | Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT | 3000 | 30,536,003 |
| Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord | Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61, BT | 2 | 30,536,005 |
| A blasphemer | Lev.24:10-23, BT | 1 | 30,536,006 |
| God burned to death an unknown number for complaining | Numbers 11:1, BT | 100? | 30,536,106 |
| God sent "a very great plague" for complaining about the food. | Num.11:33, BT | 10,000? | 30,546,106 |
| God killed those who murmured with a plague. | Num.14:35-36, BT | 100? | 30,546,206 |
| A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath | Num.15:32-36, BT | 1 | 30,546,207 |
| Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families) | Num.16:27, BT | 12+ | 30,546,219 |
| Burned to death for offering incense | Num.16:35, 26:10, BT | 250 | 30,546,469 |
| For complaining | Num.16:49, BT | 14,700 | 30,561,169 |
| Massacre of the Aradites | Num.21:1-3, BT | 3000? | 30,564,169 |
| For complaining about the lack of food and water, God sent fiery serpents to bite the people, and many of them died. | Num.21:6, BT | 100? | 30,564,269 |
| God delivers the Bashanites into Moses' hands and Moses kills everyone "until there was none left alive." | Num.21:34-35, BT | 1000? | 30,565,269 |
| For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" | Num.25:9, BT | 24,000 | 30,589,269 |
| Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive) | Num.31:1-35, BT | 90,000+ | 30,679,269 |
| The slaughter of the Anakim, the childen of Esau, and the Horim | Deuteronomy 2:21-22 | 5000? | 30,684,269 |
| God hardened the king of Heshbon's heart so that the Israelites could massacre his people. (included several cities) | Dt.2:33-34, BT | 3000? | 30,687,269 |
| God delievered the king of Bashan so that the Israelites could massacre his people. | Dt.3:3-6 | 60,000? | 30,747,269 |
| Massacre of Jericho | Joshua 6:21, BT | 1000? | 30,748,269 |
| God tells Joshua to stone to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing. | Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT | 5+ | 30,748,274 |
| God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone). | Joshua 8:1-25, BT | 12,000 | 30,760,274 |
| God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them "along the way" as they try to escape. | Joshua 10:10-11, BT | 1000? | 30,761,274 |
| Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees | Joshua 10:24-26, BT | 5 | 30,761,279 |
| Massacre of 7 cities | Joshua 10:28-42, BT | 7000? | 30,768,279 |
| God delivers the Hazorites. | Joshua 11:8-12, BT | 1000? | 30,769,279 |
| Massacre of the Anakim | Joshua 11:20-21, BT | 1000? | 30,770,279 |
| God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites | Judges 1:4, BT | 10,000 | 30,780,279 |
| Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly | Jg.3:15-22, BT | 1 | 30,780,280 |
| God delivered Moabites | Jg.3:28-29, BT | 10,000 | 30,790,280 |
| Massacre of the Canaanites | Jg.4:15, BT | 1000? | 30,791,280 |
| God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other. | Jg.7:2-22, 8:10, BT | 120,000 | 30,911,280 |
| God delivered the Ammonites to Jephthah to slaughter. | Jg.11:32-33, BT | 1000? | 30,912,280 |
| The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson | Jg.14:19, BT | 30 | 30,912,310 |
| The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson | Jg.15:14-15, BT | 1000 | 30,913,310 |
| Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism | Jg.16:27-30, BT | 3000 | 30,916,310 |
| "The Lord smote Benjamin" | Jg.20:35-37, BT | 25,100 | 30,941,410 |
| More Benjamites | Jg.20:44-46 | 25,000 | 30,966,410 |
| For looking into the ark of the Lord | 1 Sam.6:19, BT | 50,070 | 31,016,480 |
| God delivered Philistines | 1 Sam.14:12, BT | 20 | 31,016,500 |
| God forces the Philistine soldiers to kill each other. | 1 Sam.14:20, BT | 1000? | 31,017,500 |
| God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite man, women, and child. | 1 Sam.15:2-3, BT | 1000? | 31,018,500 |
| Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death | 1 Sam.15:32-33, BT | 1 | 31,018,501 |
| God delivers the Philistines. | 1 Sam.23:2-5 | 1000? | 31,019,501 |
| "The Lord smote Nabal." | 1 Sam.25:38 | 1 | 31,019,502 |
| God delivers the Philistines to David (again). | 2 Sam.5:19, 25 | 1000? | 31,020,502 |
| Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling | 2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10 | 1 | 31,020,503 |
| David and Bathsheba's baby boy | 2 Samuel 12:14-18 | 1 | 31,020,504 |
| God sent a three-year famine because of something Saul did. | 2 Sam.21:1 | 5000? | 31,025,504 |
| Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord | 2 Sam.21:6-9 | 7 | 31,025,511 |
| From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and children) | 2 Sam.24:13, 1 Chr.21:7 | 70,000+ | 31,095,511 |
| A prophet for believing another prophet's lie | 1 Kg.13:1-24 | 1 | 31,095,512 |
| Baasha killed everyone in the house of Jeroboam "according to the saying of the Lord." | 1 Kings 15:29 | 1000? | 31,096,512 |
| Zimri killed everyone in the house of Baasha "according to the word of the Lord." | 1 Kg.16:11-12 | 1000? | 31,097,512 |
| Religious leaders killed in a prayer contest | 1 Kg.18:22-40 | 450 | 31,097,962 |
| God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands | 1 Kg.20:28-29 | 100,000 | 31,197,962 |
| God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers | 1 Kg.20:30 | 27,000 | 31,224,962 |
| God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet | 1 Kg.20:35-36 | 1 | 31,224,963 |
| Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god. | 2 Kings 1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9 | 1 | 31,224,964 |
| Burned to death by God | 2 Kg.1:9-12 | 102 | 31,225,066 |
| God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head | 2 Kg.2:23-24 | 42 | 31,225,108 |
| Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah | 2 Kg.7:17-20 | 1 | 31,225,109 |
| God calls for a seven year famine. | 2 Kg.8:1 | 10,000? | 31,235,109 |
| Jezebel | 2 Kg.9:33-37 | 1 | 31,235,110 |
| Jehu killed "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria ... according to the saying of the Lord" | 2 Kg.10:16-17 | 100? | 31,235,210 |
| God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners | 2 Kg.17:25-26 | 3+ | 31,235,213 |
| Sleeping Assyrian soldiers | 2 Kg.19:35, 2 Chr.32:21, Is.37:36 | 185,000 | 31,420,213 |
| Saul | 1 Chronicles 10:14 | 1 | 31,420,214 |
| God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah | 2 Chronicles 13:15-17 | 500,000 | 31,920,214 |
| Jeroboam | 2 Chr.13:20 | 1 | 31,920,215 |
| "The Lord smote the Ethiopians." | 2 Chr.14:9-14 | 1,000,000 | 32,920,215 |
| God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out | 2 Chr.21:14-19 | 1 | 32,920,216 |
| Judean soldiers because they had forsaken the Lord | 2 Chr.28:6 | 120,000 | 33,040,216 |
| God delivered the Israelites into the hand of the Chaldeans. | 2 Chr.36:16-17 | 1000? | 33,041,216 |
| Ezekiel's wife | Ezekiel 24:15-18 | 1 | 33,041,217 |
| Ananias and Sapphira | Acts 5:1-10 | 2 | 33,041,219 |
| Herod | Acts 12:23, BT | 1 | 33,041,220 |
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Great information! Thanks.
Nice work. Thanks!
Awesome list!
Where does your estimate for the world population at the flood come from? Just wondering.
"Awesome list!"
Thanks.
"Where does your estimate for the world population at the flood come from?"
Wikipedia estimates the human population in the third millineum BCE to be around 30 million.
My reasoning for the estimated values (such as it is) can be found by following the "?" links in the table.
Nice. Shows that God is a giantically cruel and masochistic entity and that Satan is a mere normal man who never did anything wrong (other than prove God is an insanely jealous prick)
I'm not going to pray to anyone, but if I started praying to Satan, why should you get worried? Satan never killed anyone and Steve just proved that God created evil.
lol
So angry...
yea, Christianity tends to paint a horrible picture of who God is. As a follower of Christ, I'm actually glad you and many others are pointing out the fallicies of the religion, "Christianity". Keep on searching out what is good and what is bad in the world, what is true and what is false...
On another note (or as a diclaimer), know that there is something so much bigger, more powerful, and epic about the life I have found. Yea, I do have to look past the annoying, stuck-up dogmaticism of most Christians today, but past their faults isn't a religion, but a way of life. In fact, I'm guessing that you might even be close to finding that way of life...anyways....thanks for not taking life as the happy meal most people want to give you, but as something new and different that you can change... -peace
Great list. I discovered this while researching data for my blog Daily Bible Readings - 2007. I plan on posting 365 verses that Christians tend to ignore.
You forgot to include Jesus in the list of people God killed.
Also, I Thessalonians includes an almost certainly interpolated passage in Chapter 2 in which the Jewish War with the Romans is attributed to retribution for the Jews killing Jesus (since Paul died before the war, he couldn't possibly have written the passage). I don't know the casualties from the Jewish War, but whatever they are, anyone who believes in Biblical inerrancy would have to attribute them to God.
And let's not forget all the death and mayhem in the Book of Revelation. It claims a third of the world will be killed--which would be about 2 billion people if it happens in the near future.
God killed Jesus? Chapter and verse, please.
Which verses in 1 Thessalonians 2 talk about the Jewish war with the Romans?
Do you take Revelation to be literal or symbolical?
I guess Richard Dawkins's assessment of the OT God was right on the money!
Thanks for that - I was planning to add up all those God killed myself, now I needn't go to the trouble. Looks like it was a good bit of work, considering just how murderaous the bastard was. I'm glad, too, that you didn't neglect Ananias and Saphira!
God killed Jesus?
1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Who's that comment for?
Apparently no one...
Let us not also forget all the soldiers that, according to the reverend Fred Phelps, god has killed in retaliation for our tolderance of homosexuality. Nice blog! I hope you won't mind if I link to it.
Phelps probably isn't the go-to guy when it comes to this kind of stuff :) What a wacko.
This post is a bit silly. You realize that every single individual of mankind who has ever died has been killed by God? For all things are of Him, through Him, and to Him (Romans 11:36). This includes all death (I Samuel 2:6).
If the Bible is truly the inspired Word of God, it makes perfect sense that there's so much killing in the Bible. Why? Simple reason: People die.
This sounds like an atheist site, and I would be a little bit careful if I were you. Do you know that if you count everyone that has been killed for a religion, the religion "Atheism" is the one with most blood on it's hands? In 2001, atheist have been killing 31 689 000 christians. Then you have to count everyone else belonging to other religions, killed by atheists, and I think I can tell you that atheists have killed a lot more then you say God have done. Have you counted the people Jesus rose from the dead (in minus?)
And the numbers used here, is not exacly accurate, and just guessings
To the Anon who said that atheism has killed more than Christianity or God, I'd like to see your research for that. How can you say that his numbers are estimates if he cited every source? Your estimate has no citation or research to back it up--plus, atheism isn't a religion, it's a belief. If you want to debate over who has killed more, the site
http://debate.fgsfds.org
is a great place to support your beliefs.
Many of the numbers listed aren't exact, regardless of whether or not sources are cited. See all those numbers followed by question marks? Those are estimates.
What about Judas? or was that too round about of a snuf, not direct enough? He was after all fulfilling prophecy, enabling Jesus to be sacrificed by God, he then repents and somehow dies, depending on which account you decide to believe.
Atheism isn't a belief, it's a lack of belief in just one idea. How many have people who don't believe in fairies or Santa Claus killed? Pillock.
"I Thessalonians includes an almost certainly interpolated passage in Chapter 2 in which the Jewish War with the Romans is attributed to retribution for the Jews killing Jesus (since Paul died before the war, he couldn't possibly have written the passage)."
Wes, your a little mistaken here. Paul was not referring to any war. He was talking about the banishment of Jews from Roman provinces in 49 A.D. He was alive and well.
Nice!
an atheist would not waste time calculating the murderous rampage of a god s/he did not believe existed.
Haha :)
But how many did satan/lucifer/The evil one kill ?
I have the same question... you show how many people god killed, but didn't named those who where killed by satan... Does anybody have a list??
;-)
Here you go, @lfondo: Who has killed more: Satan or God?
no doubt god is:
the number one mass murder in the history of the world jeohvah eloim
yhwh who cares is a mass murder and ispire many murders along all history yhwh have the hands full of blood disgrace guilty
mass murder guilty
injustice guilty
cynical guilty and the list continues amanzing
This list would be simply ridiculous, if it wasn't so miserable that people turn away themselves from God because of such speculations.
First a lot of the numbers are mere speculation. Moreover why write down into God's list the numbers of people who fell in wars. If God gave some nation into hands of another, that means He determined the victory, but all the slaughtering was done by people themselves. In that way you could say that God 'killed' almost every victim of every war in the history.
But what is most important is that GOD DOES NOT 'KILL' ANYBODY, life is given by God, it's completely His property and He can take it back at any time and so shall He take mine and yours and everybody's if He wills to.
Guys, the New Testament stated that we are all predestinated before the world was even created. (sorry I cant recall the exact verse)
This is all just one sick game;
It means that he has all of these planned out from day 0! Yes, including the death of non-believers, christians, and even Judas - poor guy, he didn't even have a choice... :(
Of course, if you feel that I cannot be credited for not making clear references, please disregard this comment.
Arturs - great point.
Ryan - The verse you're looking for is Romans 8:29. The question that begs to be asked however is, is every single believer lumped into the "predestinated" role or is this reserved for people like Moses or Paul or John the Baptist, who were all in some way "firstborn among many brethren" specifically called and chosen to fill a specific role? One more point to consider also: "Predestinate" also means "appoint beforehand". This would seem to support the latter point listed above.
nice number crunching there but what we need is an estimate of people that have been killed by god or in god's name.....good luck with trying to figure that number out it must be monstrous :)
I can not believe you all your so blinded. You none believer waste time trying to calculate all the people God or Satan killed. Well guess what people; this guy does not know the answer either, he is total off.
From the bible’s point of view God did not kill nobody, SIN did. God’s rule is, you SIN you DIE. That is that, you can like it or you can die. God can not do evil, he disoplin evil with death and that is not a bad thing. When you consider that he also made a way for you avoid DEATH.
I am a sinner, so by God’s rule I am a dead man walking. So who killed me? I did. Who made a way for me to avoid death? God did, thru Jesus the only sacrifice aloud by God to have eternal life.
If you really think about, fools, people killed them selves by breaking God’s rules. Think about this; God killed every one that every lived Why because of their SIN! That was the curse by God. Genesis 3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. So get back to the bible and read before you make stupid commits.
So then who is the blame for your death?
God? No, he made the rules.
Satan? No, he just temps people to sin.
You? Yes!! You are the one to blame. That is, free will, God gave us, so you choose to SIN you pay the punishment, you die.
Now you non believers read the Bible in the first place you can see this.
If God killed people then he needs a savior not us.
You non believers that got caught up in this guys counting should be ashamed of your self’s.
CrownRightsPatriot Your post is close to the answer. But the reason is not that Simple reason: People die. It is that every ones dies because of SIN. There are two deaths, the body and a spirit. Every one will die the body. The second death is if the sinners will not repented and except Jesus then they will have an ever lasting life away form God. Witch will be in HELL where there is darkness, fire and brimstone, mashing of teeth and the worms never dies.
Arturs You are close to but dig deeper. God wants us to live for him to do his will for ever and for us to rebel against him is SIN for he is the one that gave us life in the first place.
So what happened to "God" being eternally forgiving then? Stop trying to force your ignorance on others.
To all of the Christians complaining about the "estimated" numbers let me just say this.
The world population as estimated by scientist (30,000,000) is minuscule compared to the 9,000,000,000 estimated by biblical scholars.
I forgot to specify that those were the estimates for the world population at 2400BCE...
PRAISE GOD and His Mighty Name
Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Joe 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful, Slow
Anger, and of Great Kindness,repenteth him of the evil.
PRAISE GOD and His Mighty Name
Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Joe 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful, Slow
Anger, and of Great Kindness,repenteth him of the evil.
The Holy Books were carefully guarded and common people only had Holy people's words for the history recorded in them. If Chrisitians have seen ancient Hebrew or Arab script and can read it, they could determine what was written and what the words actually meant. Orthodox Jews will not say G-D's name for fear of being stoned to death for "blasememe".
What that has to do with this is the nitpicker comments: "God" ordered the killings or, as recorded caused deaths to happen.
Yes, the New Testament tells us God knows the number of hair on our heads and knows our hearts and what we will do before we do it.
Basically, he wrote the script already knowing most of us are doomed for eternal hellfire. Sadistic and cruel comes to mind. Those holy books tell us he created "man in our image" or it was a team project. Looking at "man" around you will give you a good idea of who that God is.
I like Buddha much better.
I cannot believe how disgusting the bible is. It is my experience that all religions are bad, but christianity has got to take the cake.
The best way to make someone an Atheist is to have them read the bible.
Peace, love, and cooperation. I wish the best for all of you, and I hope for a world of Atheism.
God killed few people when our focus comes to the evil from the humans over the earth God killed so few people.
Almight GOD praise the Lord
Thanks for the nice post!
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Hopefully in the near future, he'll destroy about 6,000,000,000 more.
It's not that much to complain about people! The bible is an interesting piece of work, plenty of nice violent stuff and some very hypocritical proverbs, but at the end of the day, a person's belif decides this. Anyways, you could get arround the whole complaints about the book by noting that this was written by MEN and has been TRANSLATED which is one of the reasons the bible can't make up it's mind.
As I have spent time on this site, I have found myself asking, "How am I contributing to the pain in the world by my own lack of love?" I believe that if we are genuine in our desire to spread love and life in this world that has so much hate and death, then there is no better place to begin than the self-awareness that we, by our attitudes and actions, can be part of what contributes to its brokenness, as well as its healing. A person I saw speaking on a video said, "If you were able to show on a screen before this crowd the 10 worst things I have ever thought or done, I would not volunteer to be in the room when you did!" We each have the potential to be at times part of what's wrong with our world. This awareness moves me to examine seriously my thoughts and deeds in each given situation to see if they are contributing to the problems in this world - to hate and death - or their solution - love and life. I should say that I am not assuming that any who have posted comments here are not doing this. I thought I'd add this comment, though, as I haven't seen this point in any of the comments made so far.
God made us and everything else in this universe. We are His. He and only He may sit in judgement and determine the longevity of our brief lives on this planet (prior to the judgement to come by Him).
I think the regimes taking life, for no reason, should really consider whos power they are usurping and why. For they will be judged by Him. Whether or not you believe, He is your God and you will kneel before Him.
Some additional reading:
http://www.newscholars.com/papers/Killing,%20Christianity,%20and%20Atheism.pdf
Who died because of Satan?
Thanks,
Erik
Satan does not have the ability to take life. God made it. He created humans and gave us free will. We can make a choice to love or hate..kill or let live. It is a blessing to have choice. You have the free will to listen to satan's queues or live by the word that He revealed to us in the Bible. Let's not forget that He also became flesh and dwelt among us. In essence, to follow His example.
The article I sited was with respect to atheism. Those without think that what you do in this life has no consequence. The Bible is clear. The things you do in this short life will be revisited. You will be called to account. If you put your faith in Jesus, then He is in your corner when that day comes. If not, you will kneel before him.
You see, whether you believe or not, you will be held accountable. And since you know of Him, you have no excuse.
Happy New Year my brother. God bless you and yours.
Hi!
Great list. I'm really curious about the people Satan killed according to the bible. Could you inform me?
Erik
Amsterdam
Where does the estimate of 500 thousand in Ex.12:29-30 come from regarding the firstborns?
Does anyone have any stats on how many people have been murdered by:
1) Xtians against non-xtians
2) Muslims against non-Muslims
3) Jews against non-Jews
4) Xtians against xtians
5) Muslims against Muslims
6) Jew against Jew
7) Non-believers/ atheists/ agnostics against believers (of any and all of the above faiths).
It is my belief that xtians are responsible for more kills in the name of their god and any other group.
Let's set the time frame from 4004 BCE to 1900 CE.
Any help will be great appreciated!
i think god has the high score
SORRY for the hars words. WAKE UP
All you retarded, brainwashed, mass-hypnotized, nincompoop so called christians.
You say GOD sacrificed his only beloved SON for us. So we can go to him.
Let's see; If any one, for any reason would kill their own child,...IT IS CALLED MURDER.
Only a selfish, self-centered goomba (idiot) can think of that by a death of living a being his sins will be forgiven and go to Heaven? Do I really want to go to a Murderer and sitting by his throne with his dead son where everything is gold?
This sounds more EVIL and DEAD and COLD then ICE.
You all really think that the only way to get away from your own guilt and stupid mistakes of your self pitied life is by believing in a gruesome death of Jesus? Believing in a MURDERER as God?
You are all sick puppies,
PS: Religions were MAN MADE, and always invented by some smart or evil smack to gain power over the poor and un-educated. Remember....every war they BURN...WHAT???? Not the BIBLE but the BOOKS. The reason so they can keep you all STUPID, UNEDUCATED while they enjoy life. But with the BIBLE in hand they can keep you in control, in guilt, in shame, in poverty. They linger the never possible gold, fame and glory with God in Heaven in your mind.
Religions create nothing more, but HATRED. Every war every fight and all killings in men’s history were in the name of their God. BILLIONS OF PEOPLE and animals PERISHED from the face of the earth, without any chance to have a full life because they were killed in wars and hatred in the name of God’s LOVE.
GOD CREATED us you say. God created us to his own image and he created the first couple Adam & Eve. They had two children Cain and Abel. Didn’t one brother kill the other?
IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. WE HAVE A MURDERER WHO CREATED US TO HIS IMAGE AND HIS LIKING AND THAT IS WHY starts right off the beginning,... and it will go on till there is ONLY ONE....THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE....and that is your GOD.
Sad.... very, very sad
Whoever started this BLOG...GREAT JOB, GREAT INFORMATIONS!
RicochetZwack
To those who are wondering how many people satan killed.
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that it was, like, 10 people.
Yeah. It was Job's family. In fact, he killed them as part of a bet with god. :P
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-has-killed-more-satan-or-god.html
Good luck! Unsubscribing. All of the Bible half quotes taken out of context is simply disingenuous.
I'll see those of you who put your faith in Jesus in heaven. We'll probably have different stuff to talk about...like, I wonder if those haters and denyers of that "How many has God killed" weblog made it.
You have a typo.
God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing.
Should read:
God tells Joshua to stone Achan (and his family) to death for taking the accursed thing.
Thanks, mavaddat. I've fixed it.
If you want to believe in a fairy tale, at least pick one that makes sense. One that gives you a GOAL perhaps. Try Taoism, you at least get some advice on how to be happy and grow your spirit. Better then just being told what not to do, and forced to worship the thing that created you.
I prefer rather to to consider that we are all a PART of god.
Christianity serves its purpose quite well, instilling fear into the hearts of the weak minded.
Consider this... If you lived in many other parts of the world, you would not be christian yourself. You are christian because you were raised by christians, or were told it was true during a weak point in your life. Scientology does the same thing.
Sad Really.
THIMK! =P
BTW Great List! I've always been curious of this.
Also, to anyone who seriously questions the validity of these ESTIMATES.... get real. It could never be exact. Unless, of course, god stood trial in some grand court of the universe. Now THAT I'd like to see.
I especially love when the big guy deliberately hardens the hearts of people so they can be killed for sport.
And all those cities full of people who just happened to be in the path of the rampaging chosen people? What the hell did they do wrong?
Obviously these stories were written by Man to justify political conquests and a sense of entitlement.
It's too bad bible thumpers don't see how much their god HATES innocent infants and the unborn, who figure prominetly in the total killed.
And go ahead, say "He's God. Everthing is His to do with as He will." You just proved that he's no example of how to live in peace.
EVOLVE to atheism for world peace.
Fantastic and very detailed list. Great work. The final proof that the christian god is a psychopath.
Man, if none of you believe in the christian god, it sure seems like you talk about Him quite a bit.
I believe every religion should be respected. Not only do CHRISTIANS (mind you, not their GOD) kill humans, but Muslims kill Muslims, Atheists kill Atheists, and vice versa until suddenly we realize that in fact we're just a bunch of confused humans who kill eachother. Not because of God's ignorance but because of our own ignorance.
And sadly all we can do is sit and argue about whose god killed more people, and how stupid christianity is. If you want to make a difference according to what you personally believe in, you should probably start by loving every person equally, and not furthering the christians hatred of you by trying to prove a stupid and rather mean statistic.
Does that get anyone anywhere?
No.
We all have our own gods, no matter what they encompass. Somebody's god could be money.
How many people has the Money God killed? Probably too many to count.
and et cetera.
So before you judge something like the bible, just because it is a popular sacred book, think about what kind of life we're all living.
We're just humans searching for a meaning.
Maybe you should think about that.
How many has atheists killed?
only in the 20th century
atheist Stalin killed - 50,000,000 people
atheist\buddhist\daosist Mao of china killed - 40,000,000 people
hitler inspired by buddhism and aryan vedic gods killed 60,000,000 people
atheis\buddhist Pol Pot\Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in short time killed millions of people
the list can be hugeeeeee
and what about mongolo-turkic nomadics tribes of asia and their shamanic god thengry ? entire populations were exterminated
what about zeus and jupiter the biggest nations\cultures\history killers ?
what about the cannibal gods of aztecs ?
"the time is gone, the song is over"
reply to.... "nnn said..."
How many has atheists killed?
hitler inspired by buddhism and aryan vedic gods?????????? etc....
hahahahaahaaa
1.hitler born as CHRISTIAN(in childhood must have listened wht God will do if u wont worship Him, Hitler too did same.Hitler must have listened God's story 'why He don't like worshiping other gods.. Bible reason for that God created world 6000 years back in 6 days etc....' so now Hitler also trying to tell lies as God told to make Him ruler. I am sure Hitler never know anything about Buddhism/Vedas but he tried to clime thm(As same as God told He created earth before 6000 years(Lie)).
2.Stalin even went for church Father training too
3.mao lost himself due to china's slavery for hundreds of years and became like that(i am not sure,i think so)
why u r thinking against Buddha/Vedas they never did any harm to u or to Christianity. eventhough Christians attacked those people with modern weapons which they never know before and made thm slaves. still thy don't blame Christians. they respect all human beings.
Bible told u to hate other thn Christians. Bible told u others r fools, idiots.. Bible stories told u how Christians killed others as word of God..
finally u at least want to blame others for no reason.. and u want to wait for God to come again and start killings again...
eventhough u call some power to come on earth and kill all other people .. Buddha/Vedas tell u "who ever u r 'save Dharma it will save u'".. if u wont save truth, one day ur lie ITSELF make u pay. Truth will simply come to earth again whn all lies die by thmself, Truth has no death..
first off
the jews used god as a justification to killing everyone in the land to make living space for themselves just like a million other races and poeple have done.
second
God has not shown himself or proved himself nether have his followers so how can he expect anyone to belive in him based on 'faith'??? i am suppost to change my lifestyle and give up all my 'wicked ways' just because some guy said i should??? If god is real and really expects me to do just that he is not just.
Third
the poeple who wrote the bible believers in it and it all comes from there view point. If hitler wrote a book about world war 2 would you just belive in it?? or would you look at other view points and soures to find the truth? i dont know how anyone can just read the bible and take it for truth and i like how god dosent kill anyone know a days even though he have poeple just as evil if not more so.
My question is "why waste all that time trying to calculate how many people God killed? If God condemned all of mankind to death because of adam's sin, then God has killed every person that has died since the creation and will until the end..if there is one.
God's reasoning throughout the bible, especially the Old Testament, is "Love me, Fear me, obey me unquestioningly...or die."
I kinda think there have been others with this viewpoint...Hitler, Mugabe, Idi Amin...I could go on.
How can anyone believe in such an obvious psycopathic homicidal maniac?
God created all and therefore owns all including us. He created life and has the right to take it away. He who created all knows best how it works and therefore is the benchmark for all right and wrong in His creation. Can man create from nothing. If so then we should regard our opinion as well. Until that time our opinion holds no authority and no objectivity.
personally i think its all a bunch of garbage created to make people follow laws or else suffer the wrath of "god" i agree with the people that say he's no different from many other dictators that say love me fear me obey me unquestioningly or die. i've also found that people that are mentally unstable tend to believe this nonsense.
Also if you read in the Apocryphal texts you will find God warranting more killings, at least to the opinions of those who wrote it.
It appears that you guys are not taking a scholarly approach. First, you need to understand God's laws in order to define what is right or wrong according to Him. Else, you should find some other objective "truth" (which you believe to be infallible) and use that to judge Him with. Though this would be like judging boxing with football rules. "KO!" "Foul!" Second, all murder is killing, but not all killing is murder. Most, if not all, of these killings were direct executions of His law. You might argue that some of these people were innocent because they didn't know the law, but if you read some of the messages from the prophets, you will find that, according to the Bible, they didn't solely prophesy to Israel, but they prophesied to other nations. Many can agree that God directly or indirectly (you might be able to add to your list by showing how God used his people and angels to kill also, using the reasoning like Hitler killing so many Jews even though it was his men that actually did it)killed more than any man, other than maybe Adam's cause of ALL death on this planet. You cannot come to conclusions about any book without understanding it in totality. Also, you cannot judge a leader by what his followers do unless he ordered them to do it. Finally you cannot define sin without having a god. Sin is different than breaking the law. Laws are subjective and most religions have had to break laws so that they didn't break their Laws. It is all about seeking out objective truth. (Note, I wrote this really rapidly so wasn't able to correct all the mistakes. I'm currently writing a study on bearing arms so that I can show my pacifist Christian friends. Frankly, this is how I came across this blog. I'll probably not be able to get back here, so if you want to email me, my email is: mailbox1871 at gmail dot com.)
Aww, look at those butthurt Christians in this thread, trying to defend the actions of their murderous psychopath dad in the sky.
PS1: There is no god/devil/heaven/hell.
PS2: When in doubt, blame Satan.
It requires a great deal of faith to believe in something so much greater than yourself. It is easy to dismiss the creator as myth. I take comfort in my personal belief that a life lived in good conscience will be all that is asked by my God. Believe or not, that is a good life to live.
Remember, darkness is only the absence of light.
hmm, Ethiopia, Assyria, Nineveh??
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=zephaniah%202:10-2:15;&version=9;
Delusions (like god in the bible) do not commit crimes. The delusional do. Unfortunately, they are mostly christian.
Hi! Well done!!
I'm gonna post this on my blog too, so i'm trying to translating in italian.
I can't find any results about the number of Amalekites (1000) killed by Joshua. How did you find that number? Thanx!
Sandro,
I generally used 1000 for a standard biblical massacre. It seems a little small in this case, but I try to keep estimates on the conservative side.
I'am sorry, have we any information how much Chuck Norris killed? I want to compare...
I don't get it. The two common answers that Christians have to this kind of research are:
1. God gave us life, and therefore he has the right to take it away.
2. Because everybody sins and everybody eventually dies, any atrocity committed in the meantime was only hastening the inevitable, and therefore justified.
Could the little infant in his Egyptian mother's arms possibly know anything about the "Law", or slavery, or that the Pharaoh happened to be pissing God off...and could therefore deserve to die along with the other firstborn for the sin of being born Egyptian?
But no, God created life, and so God can just take it away any time he pleases, for whatever reason he pleases.
Give me a break, folks. When Christians give answers like this, is it really any wonder that the rest of us are sitting here biting back disgust and wondering what is WRONG with you?
You who claim to be the bearers of hope and good news in the world, how can your answer to seemingly God-sanctioned killing be "oh well, we all die eventually, so why get so worked up about it?" That is not a message of hope. That is the excuse of tyrants.
Do not turn your nose up at people who create lists like this...perhaps they, like most decent people, do not like it when people are killed, and question anyone who tried to tell them that killing is okay.
The thing that I have trouble comprehending is the prevalent tendency of concluding Atheism is a natural counter to the realization that the God of history is limited by the minds of the authors to being a projection of their own inner struggles.
We live in a Universe of Universes and there is nothing in the Bible to prepare us for the Life that is surely "out there.' But because the Bible and other religions developed during the infancy of our evolutionary awareness, describe a creator constructed by the projections of their own limitations, that doesn't therefore "prove" that we don't live in a created reality.
It proves that our understanding of our Creator must evolve as our understanding of reality does. It proves that any dogma at some point in time becomes limited and inaccurate due to the needs of the maintainers of the dogma, It does not prove that a Creator (the primary function of God in most religions) doesn't exist and reality and Life are solely chance occurrences.
I do think Atheism has a point in that if religious types didn't have a G-D or Satan to excuse the crappy stuff we've done in HIS name (testosterone projection!) we might all have acted more responsibly - but maybe not....
In my life, and my experience, there are Creative forces all around us that we can tap into and explore. Awareness is a gift of the Creator we are just learning to appreciate.
Loving You
Piper
what about all the people that die everyday in Israel, Palistine, Iraq/other places where fundamentalists kill each other?
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