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So you are taking a few key people who happened to be atheist (rather than killing for the sake of atheism) and have now used them to brand all atheists as potential mass murderers. You have also used the "No True Scotsman" fallacy in order to dismiss Christians and other religious folk who have committed murder in the name of the faith. Shouldn't it be the other way around, since generally atheists don't kill people for being religious, but rather because they are political opponents and Christians often kill because people aren't Christians? [[User:JohnPaulJonesRevWar|JohnPaulJonesRevWar]] 11:20, 29 October 2011 (EDT)

So you are taking a few key people who happened to be atheist (rather than killing for the sake of atheism) and have now used them to brand all atheists as potential mass murderers. You have also used the "No True Scotsman" fallacy in order to dismiss Christians and other religious folk who have committed murder in the name of the faith. Shouldn't it be the other way around, since generally atheists don't kill people for being religious, but rather because they are political opponents and Christians often kill because people aren't Christians? [[User:JohnPaulJonesRevWar|JohnPaulJonesRevWar]] 11:20, 29 October 2011 (EDT)

:::A key people who were responsible for about 140 million deaths under atheistic communism? They must have been very busy those few key people! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:12, 16 December 2012 (EST)

:A key people who were responsible for about 140 million deaths under atheistic communism? They must have been very busy those few key people! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:12, 16 December 2012 (EST)

== Mass murder not preparated by heads of state/governemnet officials ==

== Mass murder not preparated by heads of state/governemnet officials ==

Is the term mass murder in this article refers only to mass killings of dissidents by governemnt or does it also include acts of homicide with multiple victims which were preparated by people not acting on behalf of any government (like the preparators of the Columbine high school massacre)? If its the latter than I think this article should include some info on how atheism was a factor in some of those killings. For example, Kimveer Gill seems to have been an atheist (''[http://www.politicswatch.com/dawson-sept14-2006.html "I hate god"]''), there was clearly an influence of Darwinian ideology behind Eric Harris's actions (''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12370508/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/columbine-killers-diaries-offer-chilling-insight/#.TsXwrlb4JJE "Kick natural selection up a few notches"]'') and Finnish mass murderer Pekka-Eric Auvinen [http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/sturmgeist89s-youtube-rant/story-e6frf7lf-1111114828163 was also an atheist and an evolutionist]. Should this info be added to the article? If so I would add it myself but editing this article is open to admins only. - [[User:Markman|Markman]] 00:56, 17 November 2011 (EST)

Is the term mass murder in this article refers only to mass killings of dissidents by governemnt or does it also include acts of homicide with multiple victims which were preparated by people not acting on behalf of any government (like the preparators of the Columbine high school massacre)? If its the latter than I think this article should include some info on how atheism was a factor in some of those killings. For example, Kimveer Gill seems to have been an atheist (''[http://www.politicswatch.com/dawson-sept14-2006.html "I hate god"]''), there was clearly an influence of Darwinian ideology behind Eric Harris's actions (''[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12370508/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/columbine-killers-diaries-offer-chilling-insight/#.TsXwrlb4JJE "Kick natural selection up a few notches"]'') and Finnish mass murderer Pekka-Eric Auvinen [http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/sturmgeist89s-youtube-rant/story-e6frf7lf-1111114828163 was also an atheist and an evolutionist]. Should this info be added to the article? If so I would add it myself but editing this article is open to admins only. - [[User:Markman|Markman]] 00:56, 17 November 2011 (EST)