[dread78645]

Wow, you really felt the need to expend a lot of energy there, didn't you?

Not really. Just addressing your (faux) point 'that abolition was led my Christians'.
The Christians were deeply divided over slavery and only a subset (Congregationalists, Quakers, Mennonites, Free Methodists , Unitarians, etc) were actively involved in freeing slaves and getting them to safety.

... Lots of writing, none of which addresses that fact that Atheists regimes have slaughtered more people than all others combined.

One of Communism's hallmarks in the Soviet Union and China was its aggressive and violent suppression of other religions. Communism was "anti-religious" only in the sense that it forcibly suppressed all religions other than itself.

> atheists like Hitler, Mao and Stalin, than all religionists combined, they'd rush to outlaw atheism instead.

So you'd like to 'outlaw atheism'?
Hmm ...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Again, my point was not that religionists were perfect, but the emphasis on focusing on the negative without recognizing the positive, as it seems you do. The mention of abolitionists was not a "faux" point, it was factual. It is not mutually exclusive that Christians were leaders on both sides of the slavery issue. Your arguments are vivid examples of the dichotomy of human nature, something anti religionists refuse to acknowledge. They wish to throw out the baby with the bath water, so to speak.

I'm not sure what to make of your second point. Religion is generally agreed to mean a system of worship of a deity, and as Communist outlawed such belief systems it was by definition atheist.

Finally, your last comment shows you completely missed the point of my initial post. It was an atheist I know who commented about the need to outlaw religion based on fanatics like those who flew planes into the World Trade Center towers on 911. Now, based on HIS logic, HE should be trying to fight atheism, since they have a lot more notches on their belt.