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Originally Posted by kermitology
Hey CBA.. question for you regarding your Athiesm - murder argument..
What about the crusades? One might be led to believe that the crusades are a very good example of the power of religion to cause havoc and destruction. I mean.. they were called for by the pope and all. All in the name of recapturing Jerusalem from the Muslims right?
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My argument wasn't that Atheism leads to mass murder. I was arguing that the only examples of atheistic governments are examples of horribly bad governments. It's easy to say that religion is responsible for every bad thing that has happen to man. The fact is that Atheism is a faith system and has a poorer track record than any other religion. We have never had a bloodier century than the 20th century and most of the blood shed was done by Atheists. Perhaps if an atheistic government ever comes to power without bloodshed and produces an Utopian society than Cheese will have an argument.
As for the Crusades: the Catholics killed more Christians than they ever did Muslims. Read the "Foxes book of Martyrs" or "the Trail of Blood". Their totals probably exceed the totals of Atheistic governments but, it took them a lot longer to put up those numbers than the Atheistic governments of the 20th century.