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

[Thor]

Actually I don't think that either religion or atheism are responsible for killing people.

I disagree concerning religion. When you have a religion that teaches its followers that "nonbelievers" are "infidels" and deserving of death, then it is perfectly reasonable to hold the religion responsible when one (or more) of its followers kills people in the name of that religion.

When a person kills someone, responsibility lies with the person doing the killing.

Of course the person doing the killing bears responsibility for his (or her) actions. But it is important to examine the MOTIVATION that inspired the killing. If you had a church in your community where the leaders were preaching genocide of blacks and Jews, and some of the members went out and killed blacks and Jews, would you say that the church bears no responsibility in the killings?

Once we start creating a chain of responsibility for the responsibility, we let the killer off the hook, and enter a world of confusion.

Who is talking about "letting the killer off the hook"? The killer should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But we also need to understand WHY the killing took place to better prevent other killings.

The abortionist killers bear responsibility for their act, not their church.

When the church is frothing at the mouth and telling the congregants how abortion doctors are "baby killers", and how abortion is "evil", then, yes, the church bears responsibility when one of its members acts on the church's words and kills someone. The churches want us to believe that idiots like Paul Hill "aren't one of them". Oh, yes, they are. The church whips someone like Paul Hill into a frenzy with their rhetoric and then when the moron thinks he's "protecting the unborn" by killing a doctor, they run for the hills and disavow themselves. All the while gleeful that an abortion doctor is dead.