Atheists: Are you aware that the atheist leaders are the greatest murderers in history?

Question

Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin. I'm getting tired of these ignorant answers that we'd be better off with an atheist leader. The number of people killed by Christians is a fraction of the number killed by atheists. Get in touch with reality. You're slaves to your emotions.

Let me know when you are willing to admit it. You're answers only confirm your own lunacy. Jesus is real.

over 50 answers on this one. really gets to you. gotta respond with hate, can't just ignore the truth.

my response to bad squirrel

I was talking about the inquisition. It's still a fraction. Stalin killed Christians because they were a threat to his rule. I don't care where he studied. That doesn't make a person a Christian. Same with Hitler, another Christian killer. I'm sorry you entirely missed the point, a shame for someone that wears logic so proudly on their sleeve. Hope you get your head and heart right before you die.

Answer 1

Now see what you went and did?
Did you really expect any atheist to admit that members of their faith could possibly be...oh, what is that word....come on, help me out here, after all, I'm only a dumb Christian....
Oh, yeah!
EVIL!!!!!!

God bless!!

Answer 2

None of them did anything other than lust for power. Atheism was not a motivating factor.

But by your criteria Christianity is pretty much responsible for every war in the last 1500 years. Want to do that math? WWII and Hitler (Catholic) has way more blood than all those put together. http://warchronicle.com/numbers/WWII/deaths.htm Want to keep going? WWI had about 15 million more.

Stalin killed about 20 million. But it was because he was a power hungry psyco and paranoid on top of it. Hitler on the other hand targeted Jews because he was Catholic. Find me a single death that the motivation behind it was atheism. I just gave you 6 million that was clearly motivated by religion.

And FYI God killed 2.27 million that you can actually count in the Bible. That is not counting the Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah etc. that there is no count given. I bet you add it all up he beats Stalin.

Answer 3

You are joking right? Hitler, alone, murdered 17 million in less than 10 years.

The Spanish Inquisition officially started in the mid- to
late- fourteen hundreds,

The Government and its religious officials wanted to maintain
Limpeza de Sangre or Purity of Blood. They wanted to have a pure and
unified Spanish-Christian race and community, and in order to do so,
they founit necessary to prevent any more intermarriage between
Christians and conversos or Jews that would destroy the possibility of
Limpieza de Sangre. They saw that the only way of ahieving this goal
through the Inquisition. They would kill or drive out all of the Jews
from Spain, and therefore achieve Limpieza de Sangre, or so they
thought. The killed many Jews, but after the three-hundred and fifty
year period of the Inquisitionwas over, many thousands of practicing
Jews were still living in Spain.

From around 340 CE, Roman Catholicism received official state approval. Imperial edicts against paganism date from approximately this time. The majority of Rome was therefore Christian, and mobs persecuted non-Christians.

During the Black Plague:"On Saturday that was St. Valentine's Day, they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery. There were about 2,000 of them. Those who wanted to baptize themselves were spared. Many small children were taken out of the fire and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers. Everything that was owed to the Jews was cancelled..."

c.4 BCE Massacre of the Innocents unknown Bethlehem Herod the Great orders the execution of all young male children in the city, as reported in the Bible. (The historicity of this event is questioned

German Crusade c.10,000 Rhine River The "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade results in the deaths of thousands of Jews living beside or near the river Rhine (see also Emicho

Answer 4

Any fundamentalist can become a danger.

This applies whether they are fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist Muslims, fundamentalist atheism, fundamentalist Communists, etc.

However, your attempt to associate the blood on Mao's hands, Pol Pot's hands, and Stalin's hands with their atheism is quite false. The blood was drawn by their political aspirations, not their religious/non-religious beliefs.

This is contrary to things like the Inquisition and Crusades where it was the religious belief itself that was at the cause of the blood.

Answer 5

The greatest killers are the ones who would use God as a rallying call, the inquisitors, the Crusaders AND the Muslims (both sides used God as a reason to kill each other). There have been hundreds of battles and wars where the killing was in the name of "God", from terrorists today, to the deaths of the Native Americans (Europeans felt they had "divine right" to the land, and had to either bring the locals to jesus, or kill them to get the land...)
Even the ancient egyptians killed for their god, the Pharoh... In the Americas, there were temples where human sacrifices were held in the name of the local gods...
ALL OF THIS COUNTS AS KILLING FOR RELIGION...
Only a christian would assume that just because it was not for their religion, it was not "killing for religion"

Answer 6

Torquemada.

Gengis Khan.

Ivan the Terrible.

Hitler.

The OT God.

The Crusades.

The Pogroms.

Human-Bomb Terrorists.

9/11

3/11

The IRA

The Spanish Conquistadors.

Salem

Shall I continue???

Answer 7

You really should have "among" before "the greatest murderers in history".

How about the Popes who led the Crusades. King Henry the VIII, and numerous others with all kinds of different faiths. Don't just point at Atheists.

Answer 8

There is no such thing as an "Aethist" leader. You have have Aethists who are leaders, but there's a world of difference between the two statements. Should all Christianity be held accountable for the murderous Crusades?

Answer 9

They were still subjectivists. Not Objectivists.
A subjectivists puts anything but the single human life as the supreme value in which the moral system supports. Subjectivists are all in the same category whether the put God, society or whim as the subjective supreme value. Do your home work before you listen to religious subjectivists who only point to other subjectivists and call them the only kind of atheists out there. For they also sacrifice the individual for God.

Answer 10

I don't necessarily support the idea of slecting someone as a leader because they are an atheist - but the Crusades and Hitler counter your argument. I think we should judge our leaders on their ethics and capability regardless of their religious beliefs. I know good people that are very religious, and I know good people that are atheists. I won't vote based on whether someone has the same religious beliefs as I do.

Answer 11

Slaves to our emotions?
Christians are slaves to a book, is that much better?
I don't think so.
And also, try comparing the number of deaths in gods name to the deaths not in gods name, also don't forget about Hitler