If Only The Romans

[Mudhammam]

Very good. I accept your list and I could give you a list of great christian leaders five times that size. So maybe we can agree not to make sweeping generalizations about how a christian or atheist would govern a nation.

Obviously you're not grasping the point: unreasonable dogmas often succeed to the detriment of scientific principles and sound moral philosophy, and this is sometimes reflected in the worship of state leaders believed to be endowed with otherworldly powers or an individual's personal deity. The advantage of atheist tyrants is that their ideas tend to subsequently die when the madman does, an outcome much more difficult to achieve when a religious tradition with thousands of years of ingrained superstition is involved.