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:These figures are tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, they are minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the [[atheist]] despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Mao Zedong]] produced the kind of mass slaughter that no [[Inquisitor]] could possibly match. Collectively these atheist [[tyrant]]s murdered more than 100 million people.<ref>Christian Science Monitor: [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history]</ref>
:These figures are tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, they are minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the [[atheist]] despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Mao Zedong]] produced the kind of mass slaughter that no [[Inquisitor]] could possibly match. Collectively these atheist [[tyrant]]s murdered more than 100 million people.<ref>Christian Science Monitor: [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history]</ref>
=== Atheism and mass murder ===
'''See also:''' [[Atheism and mass murder]]
[[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] Gregory Koukl wrote that "the assertion is that religion has caused most of the killing and bloodshed in the world.
There are people who make accusations and assertions that are empirically false. This is one of them."<ref name="Koukl">Koukl, Gregory, [http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527 The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?], 1994</ref>
Koukl details the number of people killed in various events involving theism and compares them to the much higher tens of millions of people killed under [[Atheism|atheistic]] [[communist]] regimes, in which [[militant atheism]] served as the official doctrine of the state.<ref name="Koukl" />
It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic [[communism]] have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.<ref>[http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/finalconflict/fcrevb102.html The Black Book of Communism]</ref><ref>[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/lelivrenoir.htm The Black Book of Communism]</ref><ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref><ref>[http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm]</ref><ref>[http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=365 Memory and Ideology]</ref><ref>[http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2526 The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]</ref> Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM</ref>
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