[quote=Brovo]
How about the Taiping rebellion? Twenty million deaths.My point isn't to defend the communist manifesto, it's to tell you why religion and government don't mix. The middle east is a perfect example of that right now. Sharia law is a perfect example of it. So on and so forth.There is an inexhaustible amount of evidence showing why mixing the two is just a bad idea flat out.Besides, in American schools, I don't think teachers could hand out Communist Manifestos and not get chewed up for it. Not even if they did it to teach what's wrong with the theory and how it doesn't account for human nature.
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Sorry, Mao's still got the Taiping rebellion beat by a factor of 4 (I went with the highest estimate, 78,000,000 to fit all other killings he might have done under the folds). And then if we're including wars, Korea, Vietnam, Greek Civil War. Communism, in its short 170-ish years, has been able to kill more people than any other ideology. Mao plus Stalin plus Pol Pot is 90,000,000 is. For context. WW2 killed around 72 million. So if you're asking me which I would rather have the government totally insulated from, Communism, in a heart beat. I would rather live in Iran than North Korea.