The Fool said: > the Thugs systematically killed more than an order of magnitude more > people (over a very long period of time) than the numbers you just > listed. All for kali.
The only figures I could find for Thuggee cult deaths stated that "possible as many as 2 million" were strangled by the cult between 1550 and 1853 (i.e. between early Moghul times and the height of the British Raj); and that 30,000 to 40,000 were killed a year since the founding of the cult in the 13th century. Also on the religious deaths front, the Aztecs sacrificed as many as 20,000 people each year (a figure roughly comparable to the human sacrifices by the Gun Cult each year in modern North America). Those are all scary numbers, but far short of the rate of state murder in the Soviet Union. I think the simple truth is that humans in general are much too prone to killing each other given any opportunity or excuse, and there is no shortage of such opportunities or excuses. Rich VFP Plenty Enough Blame For Everyone _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
