[ChessExpert]

Atheists have no alter boys, no prayers, no church establishments, no tax-exemption, no record of sex scandals, no pastors, preachers, or priests, no coming-of-age rituals like Bar Mitzvah or confirmation, no holidays, no banned books or statements about heresy and blasphemy, no record of burning witches or heretics, no public displays of prayer or piety, no holy book supposed to contain "All Truth', no recited creed, no mythological 'transubstantions', no edifices with crosses.

To listen to you tell it, all problems reside with Christianity and Judaism. Atheists are just wonderful people. But you’ve simply omitted their failings while hyping the failings of others. This is a natural error given our one-party (Democratic party) press.

Atheist communists in the Soviet Union murdered about 60 million, those in China 75 Million. Those two cases together amount to more murders than committed by Christians in 20 centuries, or Jews in all history. It turns out that the Commandment not to kill has had real-world implications (as do the other commandments). Granted, Christians and Jews are hypocrites when they murder; atheists are merely rationale. But the murders have been far less.

[Dimensio]

To listen to you tell it, all problems reside with Christianity and Judaism

I believe that you are mistaken. Nothing in thomaswest's post suggested anything of the sort.

Atheist communists in the Soviet Union murdered about 60 million, those in China 75 Million. Those two cases together amount to more murders than committed by Christians in 20 centuries, or Jews in all history.

The difference between the atrocities that you reference are that the aforementioned religious atrocities (from the entries on thomaswest's list that were in fact atrocities and not references to religious rituals) were motivated specifically by the religious beliefs of those who committed them, while the atrocities that you reference were committed specifically to advance a political system, not because of atheism itself.