Consider: As many as 1.5 million Cambodians died in the Khmer Rouge effort to establish a godless Marxist state.
And in the officially atheistic USSR, Joseph Stalin’s rule resulted in tens of millions of deaths. Granted, those evils cannot be directly attributed to atheism.
But they do show that the rule of atheism does not ensure peace and harmony.
Few would deny that religion has caused much suffering.
But is God at fault?
No! He is no more at fault than a car manufacturer would be for an accident caused by a driver using a cell phone.
Mankind’s suffering has many causes, one of which is more fundamental than beliefs. The Bible identifies it as inherent imperfection. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
This sinful inclination tends to foster selfishness, undue pride, a desire for moral independence, and violence. (Genesis 8:21)
It also causes people to rationalize and to gravitate toward beliefs that excuse wrongdoing. (Romans 1:24-27)
Jesus Christ rightly said: “Out of the heart come wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thieveries, false testimonies, blasphemies.”—Matthew 15:19.
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no there is no such evidence
no god is not at fault
128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
4. 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
5. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
6. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
7. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
Solzhenitsyn spent his life investigating the 60 million murdered and he says :
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. "
It is likewise easy to find examples of Christian and other religious leaders who murdered their own people for power. It is also easy to find examples of churches encouraging their followers to perform terrible acts IN THE NAME of God. Your examples just show that people will always do terrible things and the only difference is how they justify them.
Everywhere you look in today's world, societies where religion does not play a major roll in government, in education, and in daily life are more stable, more peaceful, have less crime and violence, and are often better off economically. Contrary to what religions like to claim, the evidence is that religions actually CAUSE strife in society, not the other way around.
Also, the same Bible you are quoting was also used to justify the crusades, witch burnings, antisemitism, slavery, racism, rape, and violence. It is not a book if peace, nor a book of morals.
The Atheism is just a smokescreen. All of those mass murderers were in the Occult.
You can tell a tree by its fruit. They love to kill because their father was a murderer from the beginning.
You can never take the Devil out of the equation of world "events".
at the beginning, the atheism enforced by employing communists including Stalin became thoroughly a political flow. It had no longer something to do with actually religious ideals. He feared that churches and spiritual communities could oppose his politics. In those wars you reported, no one died interior the call of atheism. human beings died in wars brought about by employing communists who promoted atheism, yet they did no longer die interior the call of atheism the way human beings have died interior the call of religion in the process historic previous. besides, despite if the individuals you reported HAD died interior the call of atheism, it does not even come close to to the variety of individuals who've died in wars that have been fought interior the call of God, or via three religious conflict. additionally, specific fields of artwork, including drugs and technological progression, could earnings on standard atheism. this is because of the fact standard atheism could advise that each and every person is seeing the worldwide in a very medical and logical way. scientific and technological progression are pushed by employing technological know-how and good judgment, so standard atheism could, indubitably, benefit those fields. additionally, diplomacy could be helped a great deal by employing standard atheism. As i discussed in the previous, many wars have been fought in the process historic previous interior the call of religion. Even at present, areas of the Arab worldwide are at conflict with Israel for religious motives, and radical muslims interior the middle east are inflicting terrorism interior the U.S. via religious ideals. The strikes of the 9/eleven bombers and basically approximately all different contemporary terrorists are pushed by employing jihad, which comes thoroughly from their religious ideals. If I had all night, i could call much greater strategies that standard atheism could bring about a greater useful worldwide. regrettably, i don't have all night.
You name people who have died in fascist regimes as evidence against atheism, I'm actually naming religious attocities.
What about genocide in Bosnia, Crusades, Witch Hunts, 9/11, 7/7, Taliban, LRA, Al Qaida, Waco, WW2 etc etc etc...
Not necessarily.
There is evidence that some Christians are less douchy when they become atheists. Whether that's true for all, and whether that adds up to a better world is anyone's guess.
Since when does atheist = communist? Few atheist are communists and that's why your line of logic is not really logic. In general, the predominately atheist regions of the world have lower crime rates then the religious regions.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)...........huh....awkward....
Almost every single war in the history of Humanity is over religion. Millions upon millions upon millions of died in the name of their god. Take away that god. Now, that saves life's. Millions of lives would be saved. Even more.
Why would you give the answer for a question you asked?
At any rate, it doesn't matter what religions are or are not present in the world. Humans will always fight each other.