[Khepera]

God Bless Christians

[Khepera]

[grumpster-dumpster]

Thanks for the PING.

I'm a bit pressed for time...so I'll read this closely a little later and get back to you in a few hours.

-Grump

[.30Carbine]

Most excellent post!

[mountaineer]

A very interesting essay, worthy of a bttt.

[jlogajan]

It is true that it's possible that religion can produce evil

Like duh!

[Ditto]

The 20th Century's Bloodiest Murderers

Rummel's estimates from "Death By Government."

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Ruler	Country	Years	Total killed
Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	1929-1953	42,672,000
Mao Tse-tung	China	1923-1976	37,828,000
Adolf Hitler	Germany	1933-1945	20,946,000
Chiang Kai-shek	China	1921-1948	10,214,000
Vladimir Lenin	Soviet Union	1917-1924	4,017,000
Tojo Hideki	Japan	1941-1945	3,990,000
Pol Pot	Cambodia	1968-1987	2,397,000
Yahya Khan	Pakistan	1971	1,500,000
Josip Tito	Yugoslavia	1941-1987	1,172,000

Source: http://www.freedomsnest.com/rummel_murderers.html

[grumpster-dumpster]

Wow! Finally got a chance to read the entire article! Great Post! Some real useful info to use against the "un-enlightened.

[The_Expatriate]

What an utterly bogus thesis! Atheism is simply the disbelief in God (or gods, as you will), and has no other doctrine beyond that. To charge atheism with responsibility for "irreligious genocide" is to say that these mass murders are being carried out in accordance with the (non-existent) tenets of atheism simply because there is no religious motivation behind them. One could very well suggest -- with much greater validity -- that state-worship is a form of religion and chalk up the victims of Mao, Hitler, and Stalin to the theists.

The real murderer is not religion or non-religion: it is the fanatical belief of certain groups of individuals (the chosen) in their "right" and "duty" to use forceful means to mold society into a form of their liking.

[Khepera]

The best place to start is HERE Of course the top is an even better place.