The sheer number racked up by the atheists does require an explanation though. Maybe a wicked combination of the zeolotry of a new creed and modern technology.
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Huh? Atheists are more likely? I don't think so. Hard to tell tho. Throughout history, nearly every violent regime has been religious but throughout history, nearly every person has been.
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The number of people killed by explicitly atheistic regimes in a relatively short period of time is simply astonishing - hard to pinpoint, plausible estimates in the high dozens of millions.
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Not so much. See Pinker on this. The scale of the first half of the 20th century violence certainly took a rise but was still lower than the wars of religion & with the second half of the 20th C, the whole century is still more peaceful.
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I think we have to be careful about calling communist dictatorships 'atheistic' & blaming atheism for them. Every violent dynasty & colonising force in history prior to this was religious but religion was not usually the cause of their violence.
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I too think we should be careful. Atheism clearly doesn't perform as advertised when it comes to reducing violence. Of academic interest is to what extent it may (if at all) contribute. I'm an atheist. Not trying to score points, BTW.
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Atheism really shouldn't have any positive effects attributed to it. It's a negative. We don't have anything in common. People are inspired by things they do believe in. Find me a secular humanist regime which has committed atrocities.
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The closest would probably be France during the Terror: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror …
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Sadly I've forgotten where I read this but, some commit mass murder simply because they want to kill a lot of people. That's it, not religion, politics, or power. They just want to make a bunch of people die.
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Likewise for atheists, there are those lacking belief in gods that have killed others for different motives, but I am unaware of mass murders committed in the name of atheism.
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There is a difference between those who happen to be Christian and kill others for some motive and those who kill others because they are Christian and their religion is the motive.
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The dichotomy ‘atheist/believer’ is the wrong lense for mass murder. The proper lense is ‘individualist/authoritarian’.
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