Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
Do you have clear example of atheists (Soviet) killing priest in kind of auto-da-fé (meaning not during war times)or it is just part of the rhetoric?
War times killings are not very different if a priest was not an open enemy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)
News of the rightist military coup in 1936 unleashed a social revolutionary response, and no republican region escaped revolutionary and anticlerical violence - though in the Basque Country this was minimal. The violence consisted of the killing of tens of thousands of people (including 6,832 members of the Catholic clergy, the vast majority in the summer of 1936 in the wake of the military rising), as well as attacks on landowners, industrialists, and politicians, and the desecration and burning of monasteries and churches.
But if you insist on the data of peaceful times killings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_a...28%E2%80%9341)

The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone.
Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
And as destruction of "holly" buildings, the faithful and believers are way ahead in the contest, when it is about to destroy buildings of faith from the others faiths, from the Christians destroying the Pagan sites in Europe then South America (well, around the world), or Christians killing priests of the slightly different Christians and their temples on the top of them, or will the destruction of Mosques within the Muslim religion do?
I know of the atrocities commited in the name of God. But, unlike you, I don't side with either side, forgive my pun. While you are very proud to be an atheist on the ground that atheists (unlike those filthy religious fanatics and obscurantists) don't do such terrible things as the faithful do. Both sides have been known to do nasty things to their opponents, so it is not about being religious or atheist. Just politics.