Religious moderates enable religious extremists

[Sword of Christ]

Then why are your fundamentalists psychopaths and not pacifists?

If you're psychotic then religion can offer you a good outlet for it I guess. There are secular ways of doing it like supporting a political ideology or extremist movement of some kind. There were atheistic psychotic tyrants of course. I can bust out Pol Pot on you, a bit of Stalin, Chairman Mao. *Bill O'Reilly voice* They all had one thing in common, they didn't believe in God.





Though of course that doesn't prove atheism creates psychopaths anymore than you can prove that religion does. People start out with that tendency then find an outlet for it within an ideology. They won't find it in the teachings of Jesus anyway. Or the teachings of Buddha or whoever.

Do I assume the Marxists Atheists are exempt from this discussion?
Having killed millions in the last century , I would include them. How about it?
Have the atheists contributed to that?
Which came first? Marxisim or atheisim?

The thing about claiming that there isn't a God or a heaven and what have you is a that some people may attempt to create a heaven or utopia here on Earth. In the case of Communism it became more of a hell on Earth.

I suppose we must be talking about Stalin's purges, which was carried out by Orthodox Christians in the Communist Party.

There were Christian Nazi's as well, your point?



Safe to say say that religious belief didn't exactly thrive under Soviet Communism, it was in effect a state religion in itself.

But, hey, look, atheists aren't perfect. That totally excuses all the Judeo-Christian genocides over the centuries.

Secular regimes you can associate with atheism killed far more people in history if you really want to go there?