Crusades (1095-1291) 3,000,000 [make link]

Estimated totals:

Robertson, John M., A Short History of Christianity (1902) p.278: 9,000,000

Aletheia, The Rationalist's Manual: 5,000,000

Henry William Elson, Modern Times and the Living Past, (1921) p. 261: 5,000,000

Om Prakesh Jaggi, Religion, Practice and Science of Non-violence, (1974) p. 40: "The crusades cost Europe five million young men"

Fielding Hudson Garrison, Notes on the History of Military Medicine, Association of Military Surgeons, (1922) p. 106: 3,000,000 total, incl. 2,000,000 Europeans

MEDIAN: 3 million

Philip Alexander Prince, Parallel universal history, an outline of the history and biography of the world divided into ... (1838) p.207: "Although two million souls perished in the Crusades..."

Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841): 2,000,000 Europeans killed. [http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFiction/Mackay/PopDelusions/chap09.html]

Wertham: 1,000,000

John Shertzer Hittell, A Brief History of Culture (1874) p.137: "In the two centuries of this warfare one million persons had been slain..."

NOTE: No scholar has ever published a death toll of less than one million or more than nine million, so the order of magnitude is generally accepted even if the precise number is unknown.

This has nothing to do with Dawkins, no idea why you've even brought that up. 

com·mu·nism noun ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm, -yü-

Definition of COMMUNISM

1

a : a theory advocating elimination of private property

b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

2

capitalized

a : a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

b : a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production

c : a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

Everyone who was close to Hitler said that he was an atheist. In the public he presented himself as a christian to turn th people agaisnt the Jews. Example from his own book:

To whom should propaganda be addressed? … It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses… The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so skilfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself … its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… it's soundness is to be measured exclusively by its effective result". (Main Kampf, Vol 1, Ch 6 and Ch 12)

The book Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler's real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.

All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7) 

10th October, 1941, midday:

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. (p 43) 

14th October, 1941, midday:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.... Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse.... ...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.... Christianity the liar.... We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)

...and theres waay more where this came from. Just tell me if you want more quotes and the links

Hitler had the biggest respect for muslim and tradition japanese religions. He also said that it is unfortunate, that the german religion is the Christian one.

The HIGHEST tool for the deaths in Crusades in around 3 million (source:wikipedia) and I used 1.5-2 million mark to be fair. I have no idea what kind of crap Dawkins made you believe.

And you should know this argument very well, because apparently, Middle Age Catholic church represents whole Christianity and every Christian person today...oh wait, double standards are atheist exclusive, right?

And LOL at '' entirely irrelevant''. Communism is a political belief that is agaisnt religion and promotes anti-theism (which is an extreme form of atheism). Are you going to convince me that people were able to follow their religion freely and worship whatever they want in any of those countries led by those people. Sure, they didnt kill people for being ahtiests, but they did for being theists. Thats like saying ''KKK didnt lynch people for being black, they lynched them for not being white !''

If you applied the scientific method, you would have abandoned the hypothesis "a judeo-christian god exists" a long time ago

Hitler was an insane and evil person with a twisted morale system. He is not representative of the athiest community as 99.99999% of athiest today would say his actions were detestable and wrong. Ask muslims is they think its ok to kill or threaten to kill Salman Rushdie and you will get (in the UK) about 50% yes 50% no. My problem is with people who do detestable things in the name of religion or support detestable things in the name of religion as well as playing off things told in the bible as facts to their children without teaching them critical thinking skills.

Wow, you people are seriosuly desperate. At least try to cover your bias and hypocracy. Do you think todays christians support what Catholic Church did in Middle Ages? And do you really beleive 50% of muslims support Al Quaide? Of course they dont. But this ''He is not representative of the xxx community'' only comes up when its the atheists who come up in bad light. WHy dont you ever stop for a second and apply the same logical thinking when it comes to religios people as well? Oh right, the hypocrisy.

Plus there is a good reason why the likes of Hitler and Stalin oppossed religion and promoted athiesm. It's because there systems of dictatorship demand the same type of unquestioning support that the systems imposed by religion do. Religion has more in common with these tyrants that todays athiest do and they therefore make a poor argument for proving the evils of athiesm.

I wasnt trying to prove evils of atheism. Unlike you and your kind (in this thread), I dont judge the whole group of people based on few individuals and i judge their belief system on itself, not on thier most extreme and fundamentalist followers. I was just showing that the killing s argument can be applied to both christian and atheist authority trough history.

Im sure you're an intelligent person and i believe that if you really look at all the evidence provided by science you will come to the conclusion that all current religions can be disproved and that the existence of god cannot be confirmed so you might as well go on with your life and wait till the end for answers on the afterlife.

There is 0 evidence ofor non existence of God , and this is highly off topic, so i wont bother to discuss this. And my view on God is much different than the mainstream christian theist is,

Couple of points that convinced me to abandon thiesm (can't do them all) was the fact that

99.8% of all animals are extinct (and most of them were not us)

The grotto salamander that has eyes that retact into its head while growing leaving the creature blind. This creature, adapting to the cave environment for millions of years is midway in the evolutionary process where its eyes are no longer a weakness in a total darkness environment but the creature still has them just like we skill have appendix despite having no need of them for thousands of years.

Uh...ok.

PS: Yes the crusades killed between 1.5-2 million people. This is quite simply due to the combination of lower population levels and military technology available at the time. Trecking accross the middle east and storming castles was a slow and costle buisness back then lets not forget.

And dont forget the mentality of people in 11th and 12th century was much less civilised then the one in 20th century...

So basically...all atheist and anti christian sources right? Yup not biased at all

http://necrometrics.com/pre1700a.htm

...damn look all those sources. Sorry, you're gonna have to try again.

And i love how you desperately (and pathetically) try to over simplify communism to make it appear harmless by trying to sum it up in one sentence. Its reaally sad. Well, first of, lets pretend that there arent multiple types of communism and that its not just a new age marxism. Communism (in general) and all its founders despised and completly rejected religion. Most communist states were atheist states (USSRS, China, Albania...) and they all compeltly rejected religion and presecuted its followers...or do you have any other reason why was religion so hated amongst all communist leaders and their countries??? Please, im dying to hear it

And dont tell me you're that naive and stupid to believe Crusades weren about power as well. Or are the good old double standards kicking in again? When atheist kills religios people, its just for power. When a ''christian'' person kills a non believer, its because of his evil religion, right?

What does that mean?

Because it was totally their atheism and not their extreme ideologies that were the cause of those genocides. Besides, Hitler was a catholic and so was Mussolini.

In that case, we better start putting everyone to death. As wearing clothes of mixed fabrics isn't allowed. (Bible says this, not me.)

Fact of the matter is, the Bible was never natively written in English it was translated over to English and some thing just never translate well

Secondly, it was written in another time for another time when the world and it's people was far more hostile.

And to add to that historically speaking religion was a way to try to explain things that we as humans simply did not understand, take for example Thor, God of thunder to explain the reason why we had Thunder and Lightning.
Or the Egyption God, Ra to explain the sun or Yum Caax to explain Nature... The list goes on, it doesn't make the current God-Of-The-Day any more credible than prior ones, just that science hasn't evolved enough to disprove it.

Oh thank you for perfectly fitting in to the science=atheism category.