[mburbank]

Vince. No one on this board mentioned child sex until it popped out of that nasty little leeching field you call your head.

I'm curious though. What exactly is the number of people who have died 'from' communism? Just ballpark. Where are you getting this figure from?

What exactly is the number of people who died 'from' religion? See, since you're including all kinds of things that weren't Communist wars, but simply horrible communist conditions, then you need to include not only all of human history's bloody religous conflicts (The Crusades, the War of the Roses, etc. etc. etc.) But also the Inquisition, the Holocaust you are so fond of sighting, The Roman persecution of Christians, why even the Crucifiction of Christ was an example of religous persecution. Hell, David Koresh and company wouldn't have died if not for their religous beliefs.

I'm sure you've got some bizarre Vince logic the barrows the definition of which people died due to religion and which religous deaths have nothing to do with Marx, but I'd say all of the ones I've sited were due to belief in God, either the killers, or the victims.

I'd say that's every bit as legitimate a link as the one you're making between The Khmer Rouge and Marx. I'm pretty certain that Marx and Lennon would not have recognized Pol Pot as a fellow traveller.