Yes, the claim that mass murder is only inspired by religion is demonstrably false. It can be inspired by all sorts of ideologies and by a simple wish for power, dominion, resources = greed.https://twitter.com/Ramcgreg/status/970088312814886914 …
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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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