Quote Originally Posted by ThisYouWillDo View Post
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.