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Pogroms, inquisition, jihad, crusades, the rack and flame to avoid the shedding of blood during torture, burning at the stake, etc.
Science is about acquiring knowledge, religion is about acquiring faith.
Both are put to bad uses by bad people, as both are put to good uses by good people.
There is no morality to science. Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery,
pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, inter continental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?
Religion???
See if you can find same here:
First World War (191418): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 million
Russian Civil War (191722): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 million
Soviet Union, Stalins regime (192453): . . . . . . . . . 20 million
Second World War (193745): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 million
Chinese Civil War (194549): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 million
Peoples Republic of China, Mao Zedongs
regime (194975): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 million
Tibet (1950 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600,000
Congo Free State (18861908): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 million
Mexico (191020): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 million
China (191728): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800,000
China, Nationalist era (192837): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 million
Korean War (195053): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 million
North Korea (1948 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 million