# Total number of deaths from religion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-deaths-from-religion/704834>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-deaths-from-religion/704834 "2014-11-17T03:05:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-deaths-from-religion/704834/41 "2014-11-18T01:12:14Z")

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> [@tigerwoods](#):
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> now, go back in time and offer the religious rulers of the last few millennia: nuclear weapons, machine guns and ground attack aircraft. see what they could do with them in the name of their gods. they may be able to give the communists, secularists and capitalists a run for their money

Oh. you mean more people have died because of scientific advances and improved technological applications than have died because of religion? Yes, that’s probably true.

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