In the book “Drunk with Blood: God’s Killings in the Bible,” author Steve Wells crunched the numbers and looked at every death, whether reported as a single death or a massive death (such as in battle or due to famine), that God was at least obliquely involved in, throughout the Bible. As reported via the Dwindling In Unbelief blog, he looked at the numbers of dead listed in the text (where there are specific numbers). Further, those numbers are compared to estimates of how many people might have actually died and been left out of the final count. Both numbers are well into the millions.

The biggest single instance of mass death in the Bible is the Great Flood. Though the text doesn’t give an exact number, estimates claim that as many as 20 million people died in the event. Various famines and wars also claimed tens of thousands, as reported in the text, possibly even more, according to scientific estimates. Taking the Bible at its word (and including events referenced in extra-canonical books) reveals a death count of 2,821,364, while the actual number, due to the text’s having left out flood deaths, is probably pushing 24,994,828.

Wired took things even further and compared the God-ordained deaths to those caused by, or carried out in the name of, God’s antitheses, Satan. That number is only 10, meaning that God was at least partially responsible for 227,037% more deaths than Satan was.