How many murders have been committed by Atheists....?

Question

....you know, USSR, Mao, Cambodia etc. etc. etc.

Answer 1

FAR less than by christians. Want proof? Atheists are what % of the population? not very much. So by the #s religious people have way more murderers don't they?

Answer 2

These examples listed killed for a political ideology, which is not dissimilar to a religion.

Almost nobody has been killed by an atheist because of atheism itself, nor have atheists made significant murder contributions by killing believers. There is no such thing as an Atheist suicide bomber, and there hasn't ever been an Atheist terrorist. Atheists don't go on crusades killing people who disagree, and they don't torture and murder people out of ignorance or in the name of Atheism...

Oh and Stalin was raised Orthodox christian and could have become a priest had he not strayed. This did influence some of his values, attitudes and opinions... The real atheists that took over Russia during the revolution felt religious freedom was important and wrote it specifically into the constitution, but Stalin mucked it all up.

Hitler considered himself a "good catholic" until the day he died, as did many of his generals and leaders. Worse, the Vatican fully and officially supported the Nazi party's discrimination against Jews in the late 30s-early 40s. While scholars and scientists were being excommunicated in that time period, the Catholic church never excommunicated Hitler or his leaders for what they did to the Jews, indeed they respected it.

However, even IF these tyrants had killed for atheism(which they hadn't), their numbers are far lower than the amount the christian churches have murdered in god's name.

Answer 3

This is impossible to quantify. Murder exists with and without religion. There are many reasons why one might kill: hatred, anger, jealousy, vengeance, money, homicidal mania, etc. Religion is frequently brought under history's bloody microscope for very pragmatic reasons. We have at least 3 major world religions that all claim to have a divine book and are competing for believers. One only needs to open any newspaper to find that people killing other people because they worship a different invisible man in the sky is probably the most common trend in history. However politically incorrect it may be, one would have to be either delusional or intellectually dishonest to deny that this problem is currently the most prevalent from Islam. In any case, the Nazi's were also atheistic, or at least they weren't motivated by religious reasons. In their mind, Judaism was a race and not a belief system. So, without being able to completely quantify your answer....a lot.

Answer 4

I see alot of bad information on here. First off, in the name of religion on wars that can be linked to religious conflict instead of secular conflicts according to Encyclopedia of Wars, an extensive study published in 2008, chronicles 1,763 wars throughout human history. It names just 123 as 'religious in nature' – a little under 7%.

And that's conflicts that can somewhat be seen as religious movements. Now of course we wouldn't call all secular movements atheistic movements that have atheistic ideas. I mean that would be absurd but what can we for sure absolute say was atheistic anti-theism movements that did do evils. Well there are several actually in the last century.

Anti-theism is definitely no question atheistic but where do we see this? Well, North Korea is anti-theistic, Russia's communism was completely anti-theistic, the Red & White Terror also anti-theistic.China's communism is sending christians to labor camps, killing them in North Korea, Mao banning God from China, as well as many others. The illusion over peoples eyes is that atheist are westerners or European's which make up this imaginary number of atheist as a really small group. <----------This is just not true in reality because you cannot say anti-theistic people are not atheist and vice versa. Even if people don't want to consider places like North Korea as atheistic; the people in power are anti-theistic. It's a fact you just can't cover up without serious denial.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/eidos/2015/04/hoping-atheists-do-not-kill-us-this-time/

^This a nice read and I only mentioned a few things that were off the top of my head. My personal interest is to investigate which religions are the cause of most harm that can be linked to their beliefs. Not random secular acts like robbing someone for money and shooting them or gang violence who may or may not be christian or something other. I don't feel those motives count as religious or non religious (atheistic) motives.

To define something being from religion well you would have to group up all religious and judge us together which seems unfair. So I am interested in getting specific. Exactly how much evil is done in the name of christianity itself. Basically, a christian feels someone is the devil and kills them or the act on this vs other religious movements and anti-theistic (atheistic movements like the Red Terror)

Answer 5

The murders that took place under those regimes had nothing to do with Atheist beliefs. They were perpetrated by ruthless dictators to achieve political objectives.

To give you a realistic picture of how Atheists conduct themselves, try chewing on this:

75% of the US population are Christians. 75% of the prison population are Christians.

About 10% of the US population are Atheists, but only 0.2 % of the prison population are Atheists.

Case closed. Next question.

Answer 6

Believe it or not, even though those countries were 'officially' atheist, many people actually practiced their beliefs in secret. Hitler was a christian, and Pol pot in Cambodia had his belief, so did the Romans. I think more people have killed people for Christianity, Islam than all the atheists combined

Answer 7

How about the Crusades, the witch hunts, the Inquisition?

Those people didn't kill in the name of atheism, but the murders listed above were commited in the name of Christianity.

Answer 8

those people were all murderers because of their ideology, which they followed in a dogmatic way. Believing that marxism would work when the evidence clearly showed that it didn't was stupid. you should make decisions based on evolving knowledge, not dogma. if anything, these people prove old books shouldn't be used as a template for any modern society.

Answer 9

I would guess more than all religions combined because once you believe we are just random collections of atoms without a purpose it becomes much easier to pull the trigger. Don't forget Hitler, Kim JUng Ill, Castro and abortion.

Answer 10

So you saw someone else post "How many muders have been commited by christians", and the best you could do was parot back and change "Christian" to "Atheist"?

**Yawn**