IG : your interpretation of the cause of the many deaths that you cited is over the top and wildly incorrect. Implying, stating, that the cause of those deaths was atheism is just flat wrong, The driving force behind those horrors was not an attempt to spread atheism, not at all. All of Stalin’s atrocities, all of Hitler’s (not an atheist) had nothing to do with spreading atheism.
You misread, nowhere did I say that atheism was always the
cause of Christian deaths, but that these deaths were brought about by prople who were atheists...there is a difference..
Hitler killed Christians, such as Dietrich Bonhoffer or Pastor Niemuller, for instance..so much for being christian as for speaking out on natural right
and wrong.
Many Christians were killed by various atheistic powers, simply because such control-freak leaders, want no rivals, and they cannot handle any
measure of respect or devotion being afforded any God. It's a control-freak hangup, and those control-freaks who rise to the top are then most
tyrannical of all!
The discussion was total homicides or killings...not just Christians. ..And the 20th century was the deadliest century on record, likely because there were far more people to kill than anytime in history. ..And the killings were NOT DONE BY CHRISTIANS.
Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, the South American dictators..Ortega, Maduro etc., the Castros, Che Guevera, the Kims of North Korea and current Chinese
dictators have killed plenty.
If you must..historically, it was not Christians who were doing most of the killing.. Ghengis Kahn, Attila the Hun and the Muslim hordes, have
spilled plenty of blood.
Then there was the 3 legions under Varus totalling 18,000 legionaires as well as an equal number of civilian laborers and service personell , wiped out by Arminius in the Teutoburger forest, on 9 AD....just another sample..
Plenty of killing going on..plenty to go around, and most not Christian inspired. We only hear that old tale from those who have a dim view of history.
