Glad to see someone else saying it, because it's simply a terrible argument for the atheist left to make in light of historical fact. Pol Pot, as an example, was one of the lesser offenders in the new order of despots, and he and his minions slaughtered millions. The worst of religious crusades is like a tiny flea compared to the whale of atheist offenders.
Stalin didn't kill people because of atheism, he killed them because he was an absolute dictator who killed anyone who he thought opposed him. Hitler didn't kill people because they were atheists, or because they weren't. He did kill them because they were Jews, but not because he himself was an atheist. Otherwise he was in the same league as Stalin and Mao.
It's comparing apples and wrenches.
--R.
Dawkins will blame anything he can think of on religion - he isn't an atheist he's an antitheist.
As long as Humanity has free will some humans will misuse that to make war upon their fellows - one can blame God for that by allowing us to have free will in the first place but that is no more rational than blaming a gun for a murder that is also the result of human responsibility...but some liberals have a hard time understanding that too...then again some liberals have a hard time with the whole notion of human responsibility, maybe because they don't understand liberty either.
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