User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1493085-20100706230925

@Red VS Blue What you seem to be doing is attempting to have it both ways. First you list this atrocities "with the goal of making them non-believers (atheists)." then add in that you "Personally, I don't think either atheism or religion should be "to blame" for those deaths."

Perhaps you mean Jews killed by Hitler? In any event Hitler was a Catholic as were most rank and file hardcore Nazis. (Of course not including the average German solider in the Wehrmacht.) Hitler believed he was on a mission from god. The Catholic church never excommunicated any Nazis with the exception of Gobbles for having an affair with a Protestant women, so they do have their standards.

The other atrocities against religion were committed not because Stalin or whoever had a beef with god or the beliefs but rather the fact that it was organized and could then resist the totalitarian government in power.

As I have stated before I have no problem with anyone practising any faith they wish so long as it is not endorsed by a government, influences the government or public policy in anyway, or harm anyone physically and physiologically. Religion recently has become more and more a personal matter but still there are some fundamentalists in all faiths.