"How many people did Hitler, Stalin, Mao + Pol Pot kill in the aim of furthering the cause of atheism?

Mao 30 million
Stalin 22 million
Hitler 16 million.
Pol Pot 2 million in a tiny country in less than 3 years.

Murders in the name of Christianity can't even come close."
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Yours is an excuse many Christians use. To be fair, however, and this is where most fail or just are too hardheaded to try to comprehend, Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot did NOT kill in the name of atheism.

Hitler, for instance, was a baptized Catholic and was never ex-communicated.

Take a look at this:

"The NSDAP Party Program stated: �We demand freedom for all religious confessions in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or conflict with the customs and moral sentiments of the Germanic race. The party as such represents the standpoint of a positive Christianity, without owing itself to a particular confession�.�
Positive Christianity adhered to basic orthodox doctrines and asserted that Christianity must make a practical, positive difference in people�s lives. It�s difficult to maintain that Nazi ideology was atheistic when it explicitly endorsed and promoted Christianity in the party platform."

and

By contrast to all this, the Soviet Union was undeniably an atheist state, and the same applies to Maoist China and to Pol Pot�s fanatical Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. That does not, however, show that the atrocities committed by these totalitarian dictatorships were the result of atheist beliefs, carried out in the name of atheism, or caused primarily by the atheistic aspects of the relevant forms of communism. In all of these cases, the situation was more complex � as, to be fair, also applies to some of the persecutions and atrocities in which religious movements, organizations, and leaders have been deeply implicated over the centuries."

and

While we do not doubt that religious people were often targeted as enemies of all these regimes� grandiose plans, this was usually because churches and other religious authorities (such as those related to Confucian tradition in China) were seen as actual or potential sources of resistance. Once again, the Soviet authorities were not always on bad terms with the Orthodox Church, and the aim of these communist regimes was to suppress any opposition, from whatever source, while carrying out massive transformations of their countries� economic bases. There was plenty of fanaticism involved, but mainly about holding onto power and engaging in mass-scale forms of social engineering � whether agricultural collectivization, forced urbanization, or, as in the case of Pol Pot�s ��Democratic Kampuchea,�� forced deurbanization and abandonment of learning and technology.
None of this follows from mere atheism, and instead far more comprehensive political and economic ideologies were relied upon. These bear little resemblance to the views of most thinkers in the rationalist tradition that dates back to ancient Greece, and they are remote from anything found in the thinking of high-profile atheists involved in current debates � ��celebrity atheists,�� to use Abramovich�s trivializing expression � who tend to be political liberals and pluralists. Indeed, con- temporary atheists tend to oppose comprehensive, apocalyptic ideologies such as Nazism, Stalinism, and Pol Pot�s agrarian socialism, partly because these imitate so many of the features of monotheistic religion � aspects of religion that contributed historically to pogroms, witch hunts, and inquisitions."

----------------------------------------------------------------------How many has God killed? (Complete list and estimated total)

kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh. -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42
In a previous post, I've listed and counted God's killings in the Bible. But I only included those that said exactly how many were killed by God. I came up with 2,476,633.

But that didn't include some of God's most impressive slaughters. How many did God drown in the flood or burn to death in Sodom and Gomorrah? How many first-born Egyptians did he kill? The Bible doesn't say, so there's no way to know for sure. But it's possible to provide rough estimates in order to get a grand total, and that's what I'm attempting here.

Total with estimates: 25 million.
The table shows two numbers: the number given by the Bible, if any, and an estimate, when no biblical number is available.

Total number killed by God in the Bible
- Using biblical numbers only: 2,821,364
- With estimates: 25 million

Complete list:
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.tw/2010/04/drunk-with-blood-gods-killings-in-bible.html
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2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to
Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.


3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and
spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and
sheep, camel and ass.

4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.



A praise for dashing little children against rocks as a form of revenge:


Psalm 137:8-9

8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
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Don't get me started on all the pedophilia that happens in the bible. Yet, isn't it Christians that keep mentioning Mohammad and his child-bride while conveniently ignoring the countless child marriages. Or the argument is that this all happened in the Old Testament. Well, the OT is part of the bible, isn't? Genesis is part of the OT and that's widely believed. Why is it perfectly alright to only take what you believe paints a positive picture while either ignoring facts or laughing it off as something that shouldn't be taken literally.

How old was Joseph when he married Marry?

Aren't there quite a number of Biblical prophets, dirty old men, that married children under the age of 10?
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Women's rights...or lack thereof:

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: �It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.� But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Good to know that women throw their belief out of the window in divorce court.

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"Don't tell me all believe systems are equal..."

Beliefs have to earn respect; they don't deserve it automatically. Some beliefs really are ludicrous and deserve derision.
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Hi Chas,

Most likely a typo but it's spelled Buddha, not Buddah.