Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
All right: Check the casualties during the Spanish Civil War and you will learn about killings. And to provide Spanish Civil War as an example of Atheist Soviet killings... The Catholic Church having, as usual, supported the Fascist side, you cannot considered the priests as innocent bystanders. The killings by Fascists/"Priest supported" on Anarchists and Communists were much higher than that.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2011/09...ish-holocaust/

"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" No, you do. I am the one saying when "atheists" do killing it not for faith but for politic, on the grounds you don't kill on the name of nothing. Religions ADD faith to political motives for killings.
In summary, atheists and religions kill for politic but religions put a surplus in motives. You see, unlike religions, atheists have no books or holy men telling them to do the killings.
"I know of the atrocities commited in the name of God" Gods. That is where the beginning of the trouble starts.

About your link, Stalin spared no one, and Priest were no exception (why should they?):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges...e_Soviet_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
"According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot – an average of 1,000 executions a day" From our text: "More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone".
So, Stalin killed more atheists than religious, apparently. Does it means he was a religious person?
My all arguments through many religion-connected dicussions with you were: the reasons don't matter, the killings do. What is the difference how you justify killing people? If people are killed, who cares whether it is the book that "made" you do this, a" holy" man or the General secretary of the Central committee of the Communist party?

The faithful and the atheists have different reasons for killing, but it doesn't make any of them better than the others. You seem to think that killing for religious reasons is worse that otherwise.