30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century

[The Ghost of RubangB]

SlorgNet said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
But does anybody know who's been slaughtering the masses "in the name of atheism?" I can only think of one kingdom in the 20th century, but I forget its name. I think it was some communist dude in eastern Europe, but I could be wrong.

And the wonderful democratic free country of Great Britain starved at least 2 million Bengalis to death in the artificial famine of 1943, and wonderful free democratic America killed 3 million people in Indochina for... what, I'm not sure, exactly.

Every single great power which ever existed has awful amounts of blood on its hands. That's the sad truth, and the sooner human beings everywhere realize that we are our own worst enemies, the sooner we get to a world where war is obsolete.

I agree with everything you just said, but don't see how it relates to what I said.  I know free democracies murder by the millions.  But free democracies have freedom of religion so they're not slaughtering in the name of atheism.  They're usually slaughtering "in the name of democracy" or something else stupid, like "in the name of freedom," or just for land or oil or revenge, or showing off weapons in theater wars.