what is the rationalization in that statement?
is it that he is not really a christian or that that he was doing the lords work when killing thousands (possibly hundreds of thousand of innocent men, women and children given the sanctions and other shit)
Well, it seems like what some are saying is that Stalin and Mao were atheists and mass murderers. Supporting the argument: atheist commit more mass murders than Christians.
You countered that by saying that their beliefs in region were irrelevant because they killed these people to eliminate political rivals.
I just reversed it, showing it also works boths ways. BUSH is Christian and he ordered the invasion of Iraq resulting in the death of thousands of Iraqis. Using the same logic you can say BUSH committed mass murder as a Christian.
Did Stalin and Mao order the killings for atheistic reasons? Or political reasons?
did Bush order the invasion of Iraq for religious reasons or preemptive, political, etc (what ever you believe) reasons?
In a sense I am saying you can apply that logic both, hence its flawed to say bush did it because he was Christian or Stalin did it because he was atheist.
And how can we actually keep count of religious leaders or leaders who were religious through out history who killed and started wars vs those who were not?