[Alouette]

What about all the mass murders committed by atheists? The French Revolution, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Holocaust.

There is not even evidence, other than the bible, that the ancient Israelites committed any massacres of Canaanites or Midianites or Moabites. If the bible is just a bunch of made up myths, it never even happened.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"What about all the mass murders committed by atheists? The French Revolution, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Holocaust."

Hitler was many things; atheist was not one of them. Not by a long shot. He believed that the Aryan race was the perfect special creation of God; he was in essence a creationist.

[r9etb]

There is not even evidence, other than the bible, that the ancient Israelites committed any massacres of Canaanites or Midianites or Moabites.

The types of warfare described in the Bible, and many of the actual places, have been located by archaeologists, so it's reasonable to assume that such massacres did in fact occur (though probably not with the huge death tolls ascribed to them).

The mistake of those (like Dawkins) who point this out would be in saying that it was only the Israelites who did such things: it wasn't. If anything, the people whom the Israelites fought were even more savage. That was the way wars were fought back then. Hell, it's the way wars are fought now, too.

[Tribune7]

There is not even evidence, other than the bible, that the ancient Israelites committed any massacres of Canaanites or Midianites or Moabites. If the bible is just a bunch of made up myths, it never even happened.

LOL. Nice point.