Giving Human Events Mag the benefit of a kind interpretation, I’d say that they don’t mean to imply the act of reading a book on their list will cause the reader harm (though maybe they do) but rather, the collective influence of these works has greatly harmed our society and the world over the last two hundred world. Then the list becomes a more of a sigh of dismay rather than a dire warning. They seem to be saying that the damage has already been done.

And with few exceptions, I’d agree.

Though, like you, I’m a bit perplexed they’d link each one to Amazon.

Don Myers says:

Why the hell isn’t The Bible on this list? Way, WAY more blood has been spilled in God’s name than Marx—although the Bible does have a pretty big head start, so it’s probably a not a fair comparison.

My God! I missed this gem of a post. Don, you really are a total loon.

Since Marx, all estimates, since these communist regimes didn’t go around bragging about how many of their people they murdered:

Stalin: 60,000,000, Mao Tse Tung: 40,000,000, Khmer Rouge: 2,000,000. Bible: roughly zero. Sources for Marx-inspired deaths on request.

Historically, you may get the total deaths made in the name of the Bible as high as 1,000,000 (mostly from the Inquisition and the Crusades). I’m not even sure it’s that high.

Can you point me to one example since the Communist Manifesto where Christian mass extermination camps even existed, let alone killed a single person.

Had you been intellectual honest instead of trying to score a cheap point, you could have pointed out the number killed by Mein Kampf and other instruments of nationalism, which is probably higher than even communism.