On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:55:50 -0700, rbowman
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Yes, I am counting my Anabaptist ancestors killed by the Lutherans and
Catholics as part of that tally.

That must have been when the Lutherans and Catholics took a break from
killing each other. The Anabaptists were mostly central Europe, weren't
they, so they probably didn't get in the way of the Catholics and Huguenots
killing each other in France.

Then there was the earlier Albigensian Crusade where the noble phrase
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" that is often misquoted
today as "Kill them all. Let God sort them out." originated.

Prior to that we have the Northern Crusades. Some Baltic pagans got caught
in the crossfire but that was primarily the Catholic and Orthodox fighting
it out.

Going even further back, wiping out Arian Christianity wasn't a bloodless
affair either.

Oh, and I almost forgot the convolutions of British history with the
Puritans, Presbyterians, Anglicans and Catholics. The one constant was the
Irish Catholics getting the short end of the stick.

All that religious freedom migrated to the American colonies where the first
thing the Puritans did was hang a few Quakers before they got down to
killing witches.

Islamists and Hindu nationalists in India killing Christians are really
going to have to get busy to match the body count of Christian on Christian
wars and persecutions. Mostly though the Moslems seem to be content killing
each other in the finest tradition.

The entire world population back before the 1300s was very small
compared to today. - aprox. 360 million. In 1000AD it was only 265
million.
The total number of humans who have lived on earth between 33AD and
2000AD is aprox 36,673,000,000
Over this same period there have been 8,344,000,000 Christians
In this same period, 69,420,000 christians have been killed for their
beliefs - 5,578,000 of these killed by other christians

Of these 69,420,000 christians killed over the last 2000 years,
45,400,000 were killed between 1900 and 2000AD.
Of these, 13,3000,000 have been killed since 1950.

Since 2000 the average has been 160,000 per year, and this is
increasing at an alarming rate both in the north African and middle
eastern Islamic states , the micronesian islamic states, and the
indian subcontinent

These numbers come from the Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.