How many killed in all the incidents you list? How do they compare to, say, the post-Revolution Terror in France, Stalinist Purges, Mao's prisons and "re-education" programs, or Pol Pot's killing fields? How is it that you can ransack history for ancient Jewish skirmishes and spout antI-Semitic propaganda with out blushing, but you cannot remember these much more recent and far more spectacular events openly perpetrated by Atheists? Where's your balance?
And of these events you list, how many killed by people not merely *pretending* to be Christians in order to act for political or personal advantage, but actually *being obedient* followers of Christ? (answer: zero -- Christ told no one to kill anyone; therefore, anyone who did manifestly did not do so as a Christian but as a disobedient opportunist.)
Contrast that situation with Atheism. Atheism, while it may not positively *require* mass murder, suffers from the deficiency that it has, and can have, absolutely no prohibition against it. So anyone who does kill is not a "bad" Atheist, since Atheism has no particular concept of "bad." Nor is "Thou shalt not murder" a commandment binding on any Atheist. Hence, an Atheist is free to kill if he/she wishes, all the while remaining an Atheist in the fullest sense of that word.
You are a mouthpiece for Fox News talking points. I know precisely where you are getting this. You probably own several Bill O'Reilly books.
Your contention that atheism "requires mass murder" is preposterous tin-foil hat garbage.
Now, how many were killed in the last century by people openly professing to be Atheists? (answer: between 1917 and 2007, approximately 148 million dead at the hands of 52 declared Atheists, ruling over 28 countries, though war, civil war and individual crime).
"At the hands of" This is idiocy. That number total that you added up (148 million) is not the result of atheism. This was the result of several different factors from different nations who underwent a period of totalitarian political regimes, and a number of different civil wars. The starvation under Mao's Great Leap Forward was a product of centralized planning, not a result of "atheism". And yes, you did include those numbers in your calculation. In the case of the Russia, they had sacked their duma (parliament) four times prior to going to a civil war between Bolsheviks and White Russians. In China, there was a civil war with a relatively small group of Maoists that happened very early (1920s), and there was a peaceful period for several decades when Japan invaded mainland. After WWII, the defeat of the Japanese, the civil war within China resumed, where by 1950, Mao had taken power.
(Marginal note. This is a very complex subject matter, and historians come at it from different angles and dimensions. There are number of historians who contend that it was the actually lack of DEMOCRACY that underpinned the atrocities of the 20th century, rather than things like atheism, communism, or "lack of religion" or whatever.)
facts...facts...facts.
No, these are not "facts" at all, and I have clearly explained why they are not. You have shuffled the conversation far enough way from our original exchange that some people reading this thread may no longer be following it. So for their sake , what happened precisely is that you made this claim:
Immanuel Can:
"Well, as we noted beforehand, "religion" has actually been an exceedingly minor force in the history of wars and even smaller in the history of prisons. Facts, please."
To respond to that particular sentence, I then inundated you with a list of historical facts of religious wars. Every encyclopedia on earth, and every history book on earth all admits, with plain honesty, were all
WARS OF RELIGION. In the case of wikipedia, religion is sometimes mentioned in the
very first sentence of the article for these wars. The fact of the matter is that Christianity did not spread like wildfire in Europe. Europe was slowly and painfully "Christianized" and in several places Christianity was spread by military conquest, particularly in scandinavia.
Outside of Fox News and Bill O'Reilly spew, you will not find history books or encyclopedias referring to "Wars of Atheism". I will concede to you the only example from history that I am aware of that could be described as a "War of Atheism" was the French Revolution. And you already listed that. So I think we agree on that fine detail. The rest of what you are saying is just not historically accurate.