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==Explanatory links between atheism and mass murders==

==Explanatory links between atheism and mass murders==

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>Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli, Christian apologetics</ref><ref>Joseph de Torre, Christian philosophy</ref><ref>Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective, Manila: UA&P, 2000</ref> However since Hitler was a devout christian, as was Idi Amin, Mussolini, and many,many, many other brutal dictators, this article has no worth.

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>Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli, Christian apologetics</ref><ref>Joseph de Torre, Christian philosophy</ref><ref>Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective, Manila: UA&P, 2000</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 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 seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.  

*absence of guidance by divine revelation of the moral law, such as "Thou shalt not kill".

*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", the words of [[Joseph Ratzinger]], that is an ethic that is eager to kill and to maim. This ethic is about conquering others rather than self-conquest.<ref>[ Joseph Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance http://www.zenit.org/article-13872?l=english]</ref>.

*following an ethic of atheistic evolutionism that is based on the survival and victory of the fittest, which is ultimately a "bloodthirsty ethic", the words of [[Joseph Ratzinger]], that is an ethic that is eager to kill and to maim. This ethic is about conquering others rather than self-conquest.<ref>[ Joseph Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance http://www.zenit.org/article-13872?l=english]</ref>.

== China ==

== China ==