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Atheism and Mass Murder (view source)
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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>https://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2000/08/13/devotion.aspx</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>https://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2000/08/13/devotion.aspx</ref>}}
==Explanatory links between atheism and mass murders==
Christian philosophers and theologians explain that the link between mass murder and atheism is due to the the following characteristics that atheists have:<ref>Peter Kreeft and Ronal Tacelli, Chrisitian apologetics</ref><ref>Joseph de Torre, Christian philosophy</ref><ref>Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Historical Perspective, Manila: UA&P, 2000</ref>
*not recognizing an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement,
*not seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance,
*not acknowledging an external standard of moral perfection, thus ending up with self-created standards which can include killing for political survival
*not being guided by divine revelation of the moral law, such as "Thou shalt not kill"
== China ==
== China ==