“He considers religious belief one of the world’s great evils and coined the term “faith-sufferer” to describe religious believers of any creed in a 1991 essay titled, “Viruses of the Mind”
Why don’t we make a big list and compare the evil done in the name of Christ against the evil done by atheists.
After that we can make a list of all the Christian food banks, charities and hospitals to contrast with the atheist versions (supported by atheists believing in the cause, not tax dollars) of the same.
Then we can discuss which one is the world’s biggest evil.
One big supposition you’ll see by faith haters challenged this way is that atheist inquisitions only took a larger toll because they had more efficient weapons, and surely if the tables were turned, faith would carry on worse massacres...
But that’s at best to take the most fanatical sect and project their mindset onto everyone else. He can’t be ignorant, can he, that there are people who disagree with Jim Jones and with the Taliban etc? In fact that they are the vast majority?
A few years ago I came up with this list of atheism's death toll in just the last century:
Rachel Carson (author of "Silent Spring" which resulted in the DDT ban): 50-80 MILLION deaths and rising every year.
Margaret Sanger: 46 MILLION deaths worldwide EVERY YEAR (850 MILLION to 1.2 BILLION worldwide since 1900).
Stalin: 13 MILLION+ deaths.
Hitler: 12 MILLION+ deaths.
Mao: 50-80 MILLION deaths.
So, in just the last century, atheism is responsible for the deaths of AT LEAST 975 MILLION INNOCENT people. (And note that this only counts the genocide that can be directly attributed to them, if the wars initiated by Stalin, Mao and Hitler were included there would be close to 100 MILLION more.)
Where are the great atheist utopias of history?