Do you believe in miracles?

[Thorne]

Apparently, people with greater religious beliefs are likely to live longer than average. It seems there is even scientific evidence to support this, but how good it is, I don't know.

Still, it seems we have a miracle: God lets his followers live longer.

TYWD

Let us not forget that, historically, non-believers tend to die at the hands of believers! Skews the data.

[ThisYouWillDo]

Let us not forget that, historically, non-believers tend to die at the hands of believers! Skews the data.

Believers have died at the hands of non-believers too. Joseph Stalin made a creditable one-man attempt to restore the imbalance, for example!

[Thorne]

Believers have died at the hands of non-believers too. Joseph Stalin made a creditable one-man attempt to restore the imbalance, for example!

You're absolutely right, of course. But Stalin was killing just about anybody, with hardly any consideration for their religion. And Hitler didn't just kill Jews, either. There were whole classes of people who were on HIS hit list.

But I think you have to admit that, with the Crusades and the Inquisition and the "convert or die" mentality of the Spanish missionaries in the Americas, the Church has had a lot more experience in killing off non-believers. Or even believers who were not quite docile enough to suit them.