The danger of religion. .

[Annik]

Let's make a careful distinction here. Religion is an ideology. People get killed (and kill) in the name of such ideologies.

Atheism is not an ideology; it's a stance on the existence of God or gods. One cannot kill in the name of atheism. If by some fucking happenstance the case is such that the most killers in the world have been atheists, that detail is irrelevant to and beside the point. People are motivated to kill by ideologies. If there are atheists who were motivated to kill by other ideologies, that has no connection to atheism. Atheism is simply a stance on the existence of gods, nothing more.

In short, religion has the capacity to motivate; atheism has no such capacity.

An atheist merely does not believe in God or gods. The whole killing in the name of religion is a tired logical fallacy.

@Annik. The figures were posted yesterday about how many died in the 20th century (110 million which is a understatement because I don't include several Post-war secular wars in that figure...not counting Nazism since that had religious undertones) due to conflict on issues relating to secular desires.

Secularism doesn't automatically mean atheist.