Critério Mortes: Que tal Medir Cristianismo, Islã e Ateísmo?

Geralmente os cristãos não gostam do critério número de mortes para medir ideologias, pelo simples motivo que o valor de apenas uma vida é incomensurável. Mas que tal saber que em 6 séculos a Inquisição da Igreja Católica matou muito menos do que os mortos dos ataques de 11 de setembro?

Isto mesmo. Os especialistas apontam que a Inquisição matou entre 1 mil e 3 mil pessoas em 6 séculos (!), o que significa entre 2 pessoas ou 5 pessoas por ano. Apenas os ataques de um único dia, em 11 de setembro de 2001 nos Estados Unidos, mataram 2.996 pessoas. Ou podemos ver do ponto de vista que só em 2014 os muçulmanos mataram mais de 4.300 cristãos, isto deve ser mais do que o dobro de mortes da Inquisição em 600 anos.

É este tipo de comparação que fez David Barton, que nem católico é. Comparou as mortes do cristianismo, como as do ateísmo (comunismo e nazismo) e do islamismo.

Ontem, o caríssimo leitor do blog Jonas lembrou que alguns posts do blog eram bons para defender a Igreja, acho que este se enquadra muito bem neste critério.

O texto de Barton é espetacular. Steve Skojec considerou este texto a melhor resposta para Obama que viu semelhança entre Inquisição e as matanças do Estado Islâmico.

Vejamos parte do que David Barton escreveu:

Significantly, if one tabulates the loss of lives occasioned by so-called Christian governments over the 2,000 year history of Christianity (such as the Inquisition, and even the Crusades – which were largely Christian attempts to repel militant Muslim jihadist invasions made into Judeo-Christian regions), a very generous count of the total deaths that may be laid at the doorstep of Christianity is about five million. But the number of lives lost at the hands of secular, non-, and anti-Christian leaders and governments in just the 20th century alone is well over 100 million.

That includes the 1.5 million Christian Armenians massacred by Muslim Turks on just one occasion beginning in 1915; the 62 million killed by the secular Soviet Communists; the 35 million by the secular Chinese Communists; the 1.7 million by the secular Vietnamese Communists; the 1 million in the Polish Ethnic Cleansing; the 1 million in Yugoslavia; the 1.7 million in North Korea, and other non- or anti-Christian regimes.

And the number of deaths perpetrated by such leaders is enormous, including the murder of 42.7 million by Joseph Stalin; Mao Tse-tung, 37.8 million; Adolf Hitler, 20.9 million; Vladimir Lenin, 4 million; Tojo Hideki, 4 million; Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge, 1 million; Yahya Khan, 1.5 million; and so forth. Thus the number of lives lost at the hands of anti-Christians in just the past century is more than 20 times greater than those lost at the hands of Christians in the entire previous twenty centuries.

And since the president mentioned the Inquisition, over its six century span, between 1,000 and 3,000 individuals were put to death, which averages from two to five deaths a year across that span. But last year alone (2014), Muslims executed 4,344 Christians thus killing more in one year than Christians did in six full centuries! Additionally, when including just the publicized incidents, Muslims have killed some 11,334 innocents in terrorist attacks since 1980, with thousands if not tens-of-thousands more dead as a result of the non-reported killings in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries as groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and Islamic State have attempted to take control in recent years.

And regarding the president’s specific allusion to Christianity and slavery, Jewish writer and national news editor Ben Shapiro correctly noted:

Christians obliterated slavery. Christians obliterated Jim Crow. Modern slavery is largely perpetrated by Muslims. Modern Jim Crow is certainly perpetrated by Muslims under Sharia law.

By the way, if the president’s defenders wish to invoke the American witch trials of 1692-1693 (which the president did not mention, but which American academics often do), then you can include 27 lost lives at the hands of Christians over that two-year span (but you must also note that it was Christian ministers who took the lead in bringing those trials to a close). Yet 27 American lives lost over two years is hardly an equivalent comparison to the 3,000 American lives lost on just one day in September 2001 at the hands of Muslim terrorists.

Sorry, Mr. President, but there is absolutely no moral equivalency with your comparison. You have failed to recognize the reality of history and its consistent lesson that the application and practice of the Bible and its teachings elevates a society and civilizes its institutions. By comparing modern Muslim terrorists with medieval Christians you have, once again, totally missed the mark.

(Agradeço o texto de Barton ao site Big Pulpit)