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

[Existentialist]

I could answer your question, but I would be telling you what my belief system is - what my atheism means to me. I could go on quite a long time, I would talk about what the existence of God means in terms of perpetuating capitalism and how the non-existence of God spells major problems for all hierarchies including atheist-labelled ones, and how the absence of a supreme being puts us individually in a position of complete freedom. I could go on a long time about this. However I suspect a retort might be, "that isn't what it says in a dictionary!", that I have tainted the pure objective meaning of the word atheism with a load of subjective beliefs that cannot be objectively proven, that I am therefore wrong, that the things I believe may follow from atheism but that other atheists don't share my beliefs etc etc. Don't you think I deserve an answer too - isn't that the reason we are all on this forum, to compare our views about what the ideology of atheism really is? If not, what atheism is could simply be announced, it need not be debated, and the forums could be renamed "Consequences of Atheism" Forums.

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When the church is frothing at the mouth and telling the congregants ... how abortion is "evil", then, yes, the church bears responsibility when one of its members acts on the church's words and kills someone.

And we wouldn't get an atheist telling his congregants how "evil" a religion is now, would we?