Not all Christian, but see http://whatstheharm.net/religiousfundamentalism.html : 2370 people are known to that website and there are surely many more who have been unable to access medical treatment, killed themselves, been killed, etc. because of Cristian fundamentalists.
However, while your question asked about people being killed by fundamentalists, that is not the biggest problem. After all, the million of Ukrainians who starved to death in the USSR were not killed by communists, but by communism.
Christian fundamentalism preaches a general distrust of science and scientists. This seems like it would reduce the number of people who become scientists. I was going to look up a statistic to see if exceptionally fundamentalist groups were exceptionally underrepresented in science, but I found something even more strongly supporting of this idea. From that article: “Among scientists, as in the general population, being raised in a home in which religion and religious practice were valued is the most important predictor of present religiosity among the subjects. . . . It appears that those from non-religious backgrounds disproportionately self-select into scientific professions. This may reflect the fact that there is tension between the religious tenets of some groups and the theories and methods of particular sciences and it contributes to the large number of non-religious scientists.”
How many people were killed by every invention not created, every disaster not predicted, and every disease not cured by all the children of fundamentalists who did not study science?
Upvoted for evidence, but it appears to me that the figures given at the top of the page are a running tally for all sources of harm the site tracks, not for religious fundamentalism in particular. The same numbers show up if you look up, say, GPS devices.
Not all Christian, but see http://whatstheharm.net/religiousfundamentalism.html : 2370 people are known to that website and there are surely many more who have been unable to access medical treatment, killed themselves, been killed, etc. because of Cristian fundamentalists.
However, while your question asked about people being killed by fundamentalists, that is not the biggest problem. After all, the million of Ukrainians who starved to death in the USSR were not killed by communists, but by communism.
Christian fundamentalism preaches a general distrust of science and scientists. This seems like it would reduce the number of people who become scientists. I was going to look up a statistic to see if exceptionally fundamentalist groups were exceptionally underrepresented in science, but I found something even more strongly supporting of this idea. From that article: “Among scientists, as in the general population, being raised in a home in which religion and religious practice were valued is the most important predictor of present religiosity among the subjects. . . . It appears that those from non-religious backgrounds disproportionately self-select into scientific professions. This may reflect the fact that there is tension between the religious tenets of some groups and the theories and methods of particular sciences and it contributes to the large number of non-religious scientists.”
How many people were killed by every invention not created, every disaster not predicted, and every disease not cured by all the children of fundamentalists who did not study science?
Upvoted for evidence, but it appears to me that the figures given at the top of the page are a running tally for all sources of harm the site tracks, not for religious fundamentalism in particular. The same numbers show up if you look up, say, GPS devices.
Oh yeah. Thanks for pointing that out.