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===Atheism and Mass Murder===
===Atheism and Mass Murder===
[[Image:Stalin.jpg |left|150px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]]'s atheistic regime killed tens of millions of people.]]
Christian apologist Gregory Koukl in his essay ''The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?''
Christian apologist Gregory Koukl in his essay ''The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?''
states 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>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref> Koukl in his essay 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 atheistic communism.<ref>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref>
states 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>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref> Koukl in his essay 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 atheistic communism.<ref>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref>
Koukl summarizes by stating:
Koukl summarizes by stating:
{{cquote|It is true that it's possible that religion can produce evil, and generally when we look closer at the detail it produces evil because the individual people are actually living in a rejection of the tenets of Christianity and a rejection of the God that they are supposed to be following. So it can produce it, but the historical fact is that outright rejection of God and institutionalizing of atheism actually does produce evil on incredible levels. We're talking about tens of millions of people as a result of the rejection of God.<ref>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref>}}
{{cquote|It is true that it's possible that religion can produce evil, and generally when we look closer at the detail it produces evil because the individual people are actually living in a rejection of the tenets of Christianity and a rejection of the God that they are supposed to be following. So it can produce it, but the historical fact is that outright rejection of God and institutionalizing of atheism actually does produce evil on incredible levels. We're talking about tens of millions of people as a result of the rejection of God.<ref>http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527</ref>}}
===Atheists in America are Generally Less Charitable===
===Atheists in America are Generally Less Charitable===
[[Image:112006top.jpg|thumb|According to the Barna Group, atheists in America generally give significantly less to charity than [[theism|theist]] Americans.]]
[[Image:112006top.jpg|thumb|According to the Barna Group, atheists in America generally give significantly less to charity than [[theism|theist]] Americans.]]