The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[TheRocketSurgeon]

That link was about state sponsored atheism not communism, there are religious groups that are communist. In fact, if one were to define biblical Christianity it could be defined as socialism, as they have much in common.

Marx, Lenin and Stalin however were all atheists. Are you so naive to Think that their atheism had no bearing on their political ideology? Stalin is attributed with a estimated body count of between 20-60 million, I defy you to find one religious figure who tops that....

I'm gonna go with popes,they instigated the crusades, various genocides, the invasion of south america, the murder of women accused of witchcraft and protestants etc etc, how many would they have killed? billions maybe.

It's hard to go with the total body count, simply because the population in the 20th century so totally dwarfed populations in the previous centuries. You can kill 5% of people on the earth in the 15th-16th centuries and still not reach the numbers you'd get by killing 2% of people, in Stalin/Hitler's day. There were only ~500 million people on earth in the years 1500-1600, whereas by 1940 there were 2.3 billion.  (Source.)

Even so, as bad as what the Crusaders did, the total numbers they managed to generate was about 1.7 million deaths, but in terms of percentage of total world population, that's about 34 million, today. (Source.)

It's also not completely fair to blame most of the ~20 million deaths in South America, in the years following the arrival of the Conquistadors, on their genocidal tendencies... they were carrying smallpox, and this resulted in the majority of those deaths.

I'm all for talking about this issue, but I think it's incumbent on us to talk based on actual figures, and to compares apples and apples, so to speak. I'm not criticizing anyone. I just minored in history, particular medieval military history, and happen to enjoy this topic so it's easier for me to look around with Google Fu.