Is it true that atheism has killed more people then organized religion?...

[Ashendant]

(Atheism...) merely states a is lack of belief in any gods.

er... that sentence needs a little work.

Actually I don't think that either religion or atheism are responsible for killing people. When a person kills someone, responsibility lies with the person doing the killing. Once we start creating a chain of responsibility for the responsibility, we let the killer off the hook, and enter a world of confusion. The abortionist killers bear responsibility for their act, not their church.

If we want to muse on the historical reasons for different wars, it's productive to look at the different political and economic influences, that's fine, but conflicts at that level are invariably about battles for resources. Religion may bolster people's will temporarily, but otherwise it's way down the list of causes, and the killing itself is the responsibility of the killer.

The problem is that it promotes violence and says the god or the church said to do it, one example is
islamic governments putting death penalty because their religion says so