Breaking News: Atheism is uncool

[Pat Mustard]

"5) Most of your big time mass killers of the 20th century were atheists. "

Most of your big time mass killers in HISTORY were people who claimed to be religious.

Fuck it, most of the mass killers in the 20th and 21st century were religious:

1) Hitler; catholic all his life, and most of the major nazis were either catholic, lutheran or reformed. Those who weren't were revivalist germanic pagans.
2) Stalin; orthodox for the vast majority of his life
3) Enver Pasha, Jevdet Bey, Talaat Pasha, Djemal Pasha, Şükrü Kaya, Mustafa Ataturk (some of the leading lights of the Armenian genocide), all devoutly muslim
4) Pol Pot; a weird mix of buddhism and jesuitical catholicism
5) Shrub Bush, anglican>methodist (though frankly his true religion was ever moneyism, as is common with all religious leaders)
6) the al-saud family; deifiers of wahhab
7) Aang Sung Suu Kyi (responsible for the continuation of the Rohingya genocide in Burma since she took power); buddhist
8) Narendra Modhi (responsible for many progroms and massacres of non hindus within India); hindu
9) Ariel Sharon, Bibi Netenyahu, Avidgor Lieberman and all the other Israeli mass murders; jewish
10) Hamas leadership; muslim, apart from the mossad operatives who created it, they were jewish
11) al qaeda, daesh and all the other deifier of wahhab sponsored terrorist groups; deifiers of wahhab
12) the Japanese leadership in the Sino/Japanese war (later WW2 in the Pacific); shintoist or buddhist
13) the Jong family of DPRK; they believe themselves gods.

You can notice the one conspicuous omission, which is Mao Tse Tung. He's the only one we can be reasonably certain was atheist, but even with him, there was a large co-option of religion and religious practice to legitimise his rule. The current Chinese fad for neo-confucianism (the slight changing of the cunfucian religion to support the CPC's autocratic rule) stems from Mao.