Christianity and Islam may be the most popular religions other than government, and the three thus are responsible for the most deaths.
Christianity is probably the best of the worlds religions
No. Buddhism. (Im leaving out my own neopaganism because it only has about 60 years of history and arguably isnt a religion at all, having no aim to be a total explanatory system.)
Im not a Buddhist (and someday Ill explain why Im not in detail on this blog), but the Buddhists have totted up the lowest massacre count of any of the major religions. Thats convincing evidence of superiority right there.
On the positive side, Buddhist philosophy, art, and meditative practices are astonishingly subtle and rich.
Christianity is absolutely up there among the most deadly religions in history.
True. When evaluating such claims, its helpful to ignore all the rationalizations believers fling around and consider only the total body count. Christianity and Islam are in a class by themselves when it comes to lethal evil in religion. Only Marxism surpasses them.