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| | Since then I have spend well-nigh 50 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 60 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.' <ref>Humber, Paul G. (October 1987). [https://www.icr.org/article/stalins-brutal-faith/ "Stalin's brutal faith"]. ''Acts and Facts'', vol. 16, no. 10. Retrieved from the Institute for Creation Research website on May 22, 2015.</ref>}} | | Since then I have spend well-nigh 50 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 60 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.' <ref>Humber, Paul G. (October 1987). [https://www.icr.org/article/stalins-brutal-faith/ "Stalin's brutal faith"]. ''Acts and Facts'', vol. 16, no. 10. Retrieved from the Institute for Creation Research website on May 22, 2015.</ref>}} |
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| | + | == The historical record and statistics about atheist leaders and mass murder == |
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| | + | ''See also:'' : [[Atheism and sociopathy#Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders|Atheistic communism, mass murder and sociopathic leaders]] and [[Atheist atrocities]] and [[Atheism and human rights violations]] and [[Atheism and violence]] and [[Irreligion/religion and war]] |
| | + | [[File:Ncvjgfu.jpg|thumbnail|right|175px|[[Mao Zedong]] ]] |
| | + | Theodore Beale notes concerning atheism and mass murder: |
| | + | {{cquote|Apparently it was just an amazing coincidence that every Communist of historical note publicly declared his atheism … .there have been twenty-eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm … These twenty-eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty-nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democidal acts of the sort committed by Stalin and Mao … |
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| | + | The total body count for the ninety years between 1917 and 2007 is approximately 148 million dead at the bloody hands of fifty-two atheists, three times more than all the human beings killed by war, civil war, and individual crime in the entire twentieth century combined. |
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| | + | The historical record of collective atheism is thus 182,716 times worse on an annual basis than Christianity’s worst and most infamous misdeed, the Spanish Inquisition. It is not only Stalin and Mao who were so murderously inclined, they were merely the worst of the whole [[Atheism and Hell|Hell-bound lot]]. For every Pol Pot whose infamous name is still spoken with horror today, there was a Mengistu, a Bierut, and a Choibalsan, godless men whose names are now forgotten everywhere but in the lands they once ruled with a red hand. |
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| | + | Is a 58 percent chance that an atheist leader will murder a noticeable percentage of the population over which he rules sufficient evidence that atheism does, in fact, provide a systematic influence to do bad things? If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them. If one considers the statistically significant size of the historical atheist set and contrasts it with the fact that not one in a thousand religious leaders have committed similarly large-scale atrocities, it is impossible to conclude otherwise, even if we do not yet understand exactly why this should be the case. Once might be an accident, even twice could be coincidence, but fifty-two incidents in ninety years reeks of causation!<ref>Vox Day (Theodore Beale), ''The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens'' (Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, Inc.), 2008, p. 17.</ref><ref>Ammi, Ken (June 11, 2009). [https://creation.com/atheism#atheism-communism "Atheism [quoting Vox Day]"]. Creation Ministries International. Retrieved on July 19, 2014.</ref>}} |
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| | + | Anthony DeStefano, author of the book ''Inside the Atheist Mind'', wrote: |
| | + | {{Cquote|The truth is, the atheist position is incapable of supporting any coherent system of morality other than ruthless [[social Darwinism]]. That’s why it has caused more deaths, murders and bloodshed than any other belief system in the history of the world. |
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| | + | Atheists, of course, are always claiming hysterically that [[Christianity]] has been responsible for most of the world’s wars, but that’s just another example of atheistic ignorance. The main reasons for war have always been economic gain, territorial gain, civil and revolutionary conflicts. According to Philip Axelrod’s monumental “Encyclopedia of Wars,” only 6.98 percent or all wars from 8000 BC to present were religious in nature. If you subtract Islamic wars from the equation, only 3.2 percent of wars were due to specifically Christian causes. That means that over 96 percent of all the wars on this planet were due to worldly reasons. |
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| | + | Indeed, in the last 100 years alone, upwards of 360 million people were killed by governments—and close to half of those people were killed by atheist governments!<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todays-atheists-are-bullies-and-they-are-doing-their-best-to-intimidate-the-rest-of-us-into-silence Today's atheists are bullies -- and they are doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence] by Anthony DeStefano, Fox News</ref>}} |
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| | == Atheists attempting to deny/minimize the roles of atheism/atheists in atheist atrocities == | | == Atheists attempting to deny/minimize the roles of atheism/atheists in atheist atrocities == |
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| | As far the [[History of Atheism|history of atheism]] in the 20th century, many atheists are not aware of the murderous atheist regimes which inhabited this historical period (see: [[Atheists and historical illiteracy]]). Part of the reason why many atheists are unaware of widespread atheist atrocities during this period is due to [[atheist indoctrination|atheistic indoctrination in public/secular schools]]. | | As far the [[History of Atheism|history of atheism]] in the 20th century, many atheists are not aware of the murderous atheist regimes which inhabited this historical period (see: [[Atheists and historical illiteracy]]). Part of the reason why many atheists are unaware of widespread atheist atrocities during this period is due to [[atheist indoctrination|atheistic indoctrination in public/secular schools]]. |
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| | + | Theodore Beale wrote about the [[secular left]] and mass murder: |
| | + | {{cquote|...it does, however, cast serious doubt on the common atheist assertion that a godless society will be a peaceful one. The significant question has never been if atheism causes political leaders to kill in large quantities, it is why political leaders who happen to be atheist have been inordinately inclined to kill in large quantities. |
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| | + | As I wrote in [http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf TIA], the answer is probably to be found in the fact that atheists who have committed great historical crimes are almost exclusively left-wing atheists with [[utopia]]n visions of restructuring human society; [[Ayn Rand]] atheists aren't exactly known for attempting to violently restructure societal order. This is why atheists like [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Sam Harris]], [[Christopher Hitchens]], and especially [[Michel Onfray]] are far more dangerous than those more akin to [[Daniel Dennett]] and even Richard Dawkins.<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/01/atheist-demotivator-4.html Atheist Demotivator #4] by Theodore Beal</ref>}} |
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| | + | The degree to which atheist society is authoritarian vs. wedded to a democratic process also has a bearing on whether it will engage in mass murder. |
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| | + | === Other factors === |
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| | + | Christian philosophers and theologians explain that there are causal links between mass murder and atheism. Atheism, lack belief in God, have the following characteristics that can lend itself to mass murder and can explain why the greatest mass murderers were atheists:<ref>Kreeft, Peter and Tacelli, Ronald, Christian apologetics and de Torre, Joseph, Christian philosophy (2000). ''Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective'' (Manila: University of Asia & the Pacific).</ref> |
| | + | *Lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder. |
| | + | *Lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance. |
| | + | *Lack of acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival. |
| | + | *Absence of guidance by divine revelation of the moral law, such as "Thou shalt not kill". |
| | + | *Following an ethic of atheistic evolutionism that is based on the survival and victory of the fittest, which is ultimately a bloodthirsty ethic—an ethic that is eager to kill and to maim. This ethic is about conquering others rather than self-conquest.<ref>Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph (1999). [http://www.zenit.org/article-13872?l=english "Cardinal Ratzinger's thoughts on evolution: An excerpt from 'Truth and Tolerance'"]. Excerpt published at Zenit website on September 1, 2005. Excerpt retrieved on May 22, 2015.</ref> |
| | + | * The intolerance of many atheists (see: [[Atheism and intolerance]]) |
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| | + | == China == |
| | Estimates vary for the death toll of the [[atheist]] [[Mao Zedong]]. In his [[Great Leap Forward]], 8 million is the low estimate while [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed 16 million.<ref>Mao: The Real Story by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472</ref> The [[Cultural Revolution]] killed from a range of 20 million to 35 million. | | Estimates vary for the death toll of the [[atheist]] [[Mao Zedong]]. In his [[Great Leap Forward]], 8 million is the low estimate while [[Deng Xiaoping]] claimed 16 million.<ref>Mao: The Real Story by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472</ref> The [[Cultural Revolution]] killed from a range of 20 million to 35 million. |
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| | + | == Yugoslavia == |
| | + | The president of [[Yugoslavia]] [[Slobodan Milosevic]], who was on trial for accusations of [[genocide]] and [[crimes against humanity]] in [[Bosnia]] and [[Kosovo]], most notably for the [[Srebrenica massacre]], was an avowed atheist.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/19/tens-thousands-mourn-milosevic-in-belgrade/</ref> |
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| | == Atheism and abortion == | | == Atheism and abortion == |
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| | See also: [https://creation.com/abortion-after-birth Atheism, evolutionary belief and infanticide proponents] | | See also: [https://creation.com/abortion-after-birth Atheism, evolutionary belief and infanticide proponents] |
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| | + | == Atheism and psychopathy == |
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| | + | See: [[Atheism and psychopathy]] |
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| | + | == Atheism and young mass muderers == |
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| | + | ''See also:'' [[Young mass murders]] |
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| | + | A significant portion of the recent incidents involving [[young mass murders|young mass murderers]] have involved atheists. |
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| | == Recommended books == | | == Recommended books == |