Hitler ruled Germany for twelve years, Poland for five and large sections of the Soviet Union for two or three.

During World War Two, an estimated 63 million died. Millions of those died in the east, though, especially in China. Let's say Hitler killed 50 million people.

If each of those 40 million lost 40 years of life, that's a total loss of 2 billion years of human experience.

On top of this, everyone else had a pretty rotten time. That's a billion people in the western theatre of war, let's say, who had let's say an average of 5 years suffering. That's 5 billion years in all.

Let's add these two random numbers together for no reason. Now we have an arbitrary made-up value for the evil of Hitler, based on years of human experience lost or ruined. It's seven billion years.

Let's now assume that the repercussions of Hitler's rule double this. This represents global post traumatic stress disorder, the suffering while economies were rebuilt, everyone who grieved for people they lost, all of it. We now have a figure of 14 billion years.

Notice that this dumps the whole thing on one man's shoulders. There's no consideration of hyperinflation in Germany in the Twenties, how many Poles were actually killed by Stalin, or any of that. It's fairly much the maximum evil attributable to Hitler.

Now let's consider Jesus. My text for the day comes from Matthew 25:41.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

So how does this text compare? Well firstly, obviously, there's the unnecessary use of the capital D on Depart. Let's let him off that, though, and just concentrate on the burning.

You may recall this verse. The whole chapter can be read here. It's the one where he sits the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. The sheep get heaven, the goats get hell. It's the direct words of Jesus, so don't believe any of that crap about how all the bad bits are in the chapters attributed to Paul.

So, the maths. It's said that one in thirty of all the humans who have ever existed are alive today. Let's give Jesus the benefit of the doubt, though, and let's just include those who may have heard his message. Based on Wikipedia's calculations for world population, I reckon that's about 20 billion people.

Now they do say the Christian path is the road less travelled, but let's give him the benefit of more doubt, and let's assume there's as many sheep as there are goats. That's 10 billion people in the flames. If Jesus was the equivalent of Hitler, he'd have to burn them for about 17 months each.

Unfortunately, though, it's the everlasting fire. As 10 billion times infinity equals infinity, It follows that you can't possibly compare Hitler to Jesus. Jesus is infinitely worse.

This is a completely facetious post, obviously. In fact, it's my Dave Gorman moment. Given the billions of Christians in human history who have believed in the literal truth of this text, though, and given the plenitude of similar texts in the Koran, you have to wonder what effect this appalling vision has had on human history. No wonder Torquemada thought he was doing the Lord's work. After all, he was only inflicting a small fraction of Jesus' everlasting carnival of pain.