How to Destroy an Athiests in a argument! (Updated with poll)

[SmoothCriminal]

Player1x3 said:

beatles1082 said:

Dr.Grass said:

beatles1082 said:

This is the STUPIDEST. Argument in existence. My blood boils when I hear atheists spewing this utter crap. You're just jumping on the exact same bandwagon you're supposedly decrying.

You're just too stupid to see it.

 there's no need to feel threatened by an atheist.   There are still 7 countries where the state can excecute citizens for being an atheist.

• Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
• Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
• Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 15 million dead
• Vladimir Lenin, Atheist: 5.5 million dead
• Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
• Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
• Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead

          (all in time span of max 70 years)
Vs.

• Catholic Inqusition: (time span: 500+ years) 20-30.000 dead
• The Crusades :  (time span:200+ years) 1.5-2 million dead

Atheist dictators killed millions of people over the past century, and caused more death in a much shorter time span than almost any other catastrophe that has happened in the civilized world, and imprisoned  or murdered hundreds of thousands in an effort to eradicate religion itself, because, you know, mass murder is the inevitable result when a community becomes too intolerant of outlandish dogmas and too fond of critical thinking. Oh the irony!

I just have to bring this up. First, Hitler was a Christian at least as late as 1944*, though he may have changed after that (not likely though). Second, everyone on your list was a Statist, which is a secular religion.

 

Also, you're not using relative numbers. Relative to total population size, the Holocaust/WW2 and other atrocities aren't nearly as bad as you think they would be, and the Crusades and Inquisition are much worse. Comparing pre-industrial revilution massacres to post-industrial revolution massacres is just fallacious.

*I've examined the claims on both sides, and still am convinced that he was a Christian. That or he was the lunatic that he was and didn't have a cohesive belief system. I'm gonna go with that one.