[wideawake]

Yeah, right, atheism == Stalinism....

There are only a few countries in the world that are officially atheist. I named two of them.

If you feel that Cuba and North Korea are misrepresenting atheism, take it up with them.

[icwhatudo]

"Pope Benedict, in an encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" in history."

As practiced by communist/socialist/stalinist regimes, I think the number killed is over 100 million. Being an atheist does not make one a murderer, nor does being a Christian, but we hear all the time about the killings in the crusades/inquisition/witch trials/etc-its time we take account of what the other side has done as well.

[tyke]

So of all the hundreds of millions of atheists in the world, you choose to (mis)characterize them by equating all of them with, at most, a few thousand criminals who are responsible for imposing and maintaining a pair of heinous regimes on their respective countries.

I guess that’s why Stalinism is so popular among conservative atheists in the US and Western Europe (/sarc)

The Tzars of Russia were Christians and enforced Christianity on the Russian subjects on pain of imprisonment or death. Am I to take it, then, that they represent all that is good about the Christian faith?