Atheist Russia and Atheist China over saw two of the biggest mass genocides of its own citizens in human history. I can't think of a single atheists run country that isn't a totalitarian brutal dictatorship, and I also can't think of any long lasting atheist civilization through out all history.
It makes me think that Atheism and it's lack of moral guidance is incompatible with civilization, and that the brutality inherent in their regimes is a reflection of that.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
