Natural Order and Science

[Alex K]

My guess is, IBM computers and the Railroad??? Who the fuck knows!

Response for Alex K, Mathilda, and Robvalue

WOW, what an explosive reaction! As if I have thrown a bomb over your heads. And, now you are pretending as if you do not know about whom I am talking. Well I do not mind to repeat the truth.

The "explosive reaction" was aimed at your incoherence, not the shocking truths you offer.

Joseph Stalin (atheist) killed 42,672,000 people
Mao Zedong (atheist) killed 37,828,000 people
Adolf Hitler (atheist) killed  20,946,000 people
Chiang Kaikillshek (atheist) killed 10,214,000 people
Vladimir Lenin (atheist) killed 4,017,000 people
Hideki Tojo (atheist) killed 3,990,000 people
Pol Pot killed (atheist) 2,397,0003 people

Even if it is true what you say about these people, what you have demonstrated is that atheists possibly make worse dictators. While that is an interesting fact to keep in mind, I would like to go on record saying that I don't think dictatorships are a good idea.

That being said, you are of course technically wrong - none of these people killed a great number of victims. The killiing was done by others. In the case of e.g. Hitler, the killing was done by people, mostly formerly good Catholics and Protestants, who fell for a quasi-religion involving a personality cult directed at Adolf Hitler and the aryan race / German people. Why did they fall for it? Maybe because religion had made sure that for centuries, the general populace did not learn to, did not dare to question messianic authority figures - theistic religion paved the way by providing an uncritical following where a culture of critical thinking could have averted the catastrophe.