Yancuna island - And to the people that accuse atheists of being horrible no atheists world leaders start wars and have murdered millions of people in cold blood in some fake make believe holy war.
How much blood does Christianity have on it's hands?
Scumbags.
*facepalm*
Surely this is a troll attempt. But just in case it's not...
3 of the 4 most brutal mass killing dictators the world has ever known have all been specifically non-religious. And the one exception (Hitler), held a worldview that was an amalgamation of Nietzche's atheism and Germanic nationalism:
1. Adolf Hitler – around 11 million
2. Joseph Stalin – anywhere from 20 to 100 million
3. Chairman Mao Zedong – 50 to 70 million
4. Pol Pot – around 1 million
Does this mean that atheism is inherently genocidal? Of course not. It just shows the silliness of the claim that 'religion' is somehow the major cause of mass killing and evil dictators.
As for "Holy War" being the cause of most warfare deaths, that's also simply not factually true:
"By every reasonable estimate, World War II was the single bloodiest conflict ever, taking some fifty million lives worldwide according to the most conservative count. (Shown in BOLD.) Following this are three wars centered in China and/or Mongolia (a recurring theme, according to my research) with an average of almost thirty million fatalities. Only then do we encounter the Taiping Rebellion, also in China, the first entry on the list of history’s worst wars with even a tenuous connection to religion; the leader of the rebellion had earlier declared himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ. That little-known war took twenty million lives. Further down the list is the Dungan Revolt of Chinese Muslims against their Han oppressors with eight million deaths, and much further down comes the Thirty Years’ War, notable as the first conflict on the list in which religion arguably was the reason the war was fought.
Event Number of deaths (est.) Location
1. World War II 50,000,000 Worldwide
2. An Shi Rebellion 33,000,000 China
3. Mongol Conquest 30,000,000 Asia, Europe
4. Manchu Conquest 25,000,000 China
5.Taiping Rebellion 20,000,000 China
6. World War I 15,000,000 Worldwide
7. Timur Conquests 15,000,000 Asia
8. Dungan Revolt 8,000,000 China
9. Russian Civil War 5,000,000 Russia
10. Second Congo War 3,800,000 Congo
11. Napoleonic Wars 3,500,000 Worldwide
12.Thirty Years' War 3,000,000 Europe
13. Yellow Turban 3,000,000 China Rebellion
14. Polish-Lithuanian 3,000,000 Europe Deluge
15. Korean War 2,500,000 Korea
16. Vietnam War 2,495,000 Asia
17. French Wars 2,000,000 France of Religion
18. Shaka's Conquests 2,000,000 Africa
19. Second Sudanese 1,000,000 Sudan Civil War
20. Crusades 1,000,000 Middle East
Even combining all of the wars in which religious beliefs help to identify the two sides (in italics on the chart) produces a total of 35 million deaths from six wars, or an average of 5.8 million. Compare this to the total for all other (non-religious) wars - 193 million from fourteen wars (avg. 13.7 million) and it rapidly becomes clear that so-called "religious" wars are not really more deadly than any other kind. On average, they’re actually much LESS deadly.
The truth is, living in China is a far greater risk factor for dying in war than all the religions in history. Wars centered in Asia occupy seven of the top ten places on the list, or half the list as a whole. The death toll for only wars in Asia amounts to 145 million from 10 wars, averaging 14.5 million (almost three times the average for so-called "religious" wars.)" [source article]
And finally, when one of the most famous modern atheists, Christopher Hitchens, was dying of cancer, he chose to be treated by an evangelical Christian, Francis Collins, the man who oversaw the mapping of the human genome.
So let's put aside any silly notions that belief in God is not a philosophically respectable worldview, shall we?
There are intellectual reasons for both belief and skepticism. Anyone who thinks otherwise is showing their own ignorance.
