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The Christian God. | 22 | 62.86% | |
Allah. | 4 | 11.43% | |
They have caused equal amounts of death and destruction. | 9 | 25.71% | |
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Definitely Allah. Yahweh seems more like he likes to kill people, but not too much. So (after the fifth century, when his power becomes secure) he creates some kind of specialized class of people that he wants a selected minority of his followers to kill. First it was pagans, then Jews, then heretics, and now it's the gays and abortion doctors. Also, his usurpation of the Roman Empire, and other parts of Europe, were fairly bloodless. The only major wars that were Christian against infidel were the Crusades and the conquest of Mexico.
Allah, on the other hand, was quite warlike in his rise to power. The Muslims get tired of killing infidels much slower than the Christians. And I think that you'd have to count all the women who have been executed for crimes like adultery, and other strict laws of that kind, since they come from the Koran or Old Testament. And remember the terrorists. But since the time of Jesus, few of Yahweh's followers have favored a literal application of Leviticus. Now, it's true that Yahweh got a head start, since Allah did very little until the seventh century. But by the same token, in the eighteenth century Yahweh lost to the post-Enlightenment gods the dominion over all his realm except South America. While Allah has retained his to the present. Therefore, there have been a lot more "acts of God" in the last three hundred years that are Allah's responsibility, than similar events that are Yahweh's responsibility. |
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