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by 988747 1725 days ago
How did Church kill more people than Hitler? You shouldn't believe estimates that, for example, Spanish Inqusition killed "millions" - those are obviously false, since they sometimes exceed total population of Europe at the time. Modern estimates are 3000-5000 [1]. The same goes for victims of missionaries in America and Africa.

I'm not denying the fact that Church DID in fact kill people thorough it's history, it's just many popular estimates are wildly inaccurate, and sometimes deliberately, to make Church look worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition