The stats are there. Look them up. Muslims are, by far, the world leader throughout history in racking up the most kills, 2nd is atheism and secularism (though #1 in the 20th century), and far behind is Christianity. Research and get the facts. Lets have a look at Stalins communist state. The state was committed to the destruction of religion, and destroyed churches, mosques and temples, ridiculed, harassed and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with atheistic teachings, and generally promoted atheism as the truth that society should accept. The total number of Christian victims of Soviet state atheist policies, has been estimated to range between 12-20 million. en.wikipedia.org/.../Persecution_of_Christians_in... And that only looking at the persecution of one particular belief system. Raised in the Georgian Orthodox faith, Stalin became an atheist. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the anti-religious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s, it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin If you have more reputable sources than Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. (1988) A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer, vol 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions, St Martins Press, New York p. 89 , Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. (1988) A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer, vol 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions, St Martins Press, New York p. 89 and Daniel, Wallace L. (Winter 2009). Father Aleksandr Men and the struggle to recover Russias heritage. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University)) 17 (1). ISSN 1940-4603. Retrieved 2014-03-29.Continuing to hold to ones beliefs and ones view of the world required the courage to stand outside a system committed to destroying religious values and perspectives. , Im all ears... (Crusades, Nazism, genocide of First Nations, apartheid and resultant deaths, ww1, ww2, civil war, revolutionary war... All could count on the death toll of Christians.) Some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history. Of those wars, the authors categorize 123 as being religious in nature,2 which is an astonishingly low 6.98% of all wars. However, when one subtracts out those waged in the name of Islam (66), the percentage is cut by more than half to 3.23%. That means that all faiths combined – minus Islam – have caused less than 4% of all of humanity’s wars and violent conflicts. Further, they played no motivating role in the major wars that have resulted in the most loss of life. Non-Religious Dictator Lives Lost Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000 Mao Zedong - 37,828,000 Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000 Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000 Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000 Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000 Pol Pot - 2,397,0003 imgur/seNUNoP Hitler was formally catholic but was atheist in belief. And it matters not of the existence of one all-encompassing scripture of atheism. Please peruse and validate, if you feel the need, the statistics Ive already posted. Stalin, alone, whom Ive already validated as atheist (again, fact-check if you feel the need), far exceeds killing by all faiths put together. Research done by Adrian Valliancourt
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