Atheism is better than religon

Yes always good to debate! Ok well I actually did not blame most of the deaths on Christians although many of my examples were. And you forgot I did include the Korean massacres with the more religious regimes. Again in Korea their old leader actually is a god and is the religion of the state. Also there is nothing to say Mussolini and Stalin actually were atheists. They may have been in private and sources vary, some say they were, others say they were not. The thing you need to pay attention to is what they did or what their actions were. The Catholic Church is well known to have supported fascism as an ideology and its leaders (Hitler/Mussolini). Both the German and Italian fascist parties had a treaty with the Vatican which was in no way being forced at gun point, both Popes in this period openly and privately agreed with this and went out of their way to end resistance towards it. And remember that these movements actively persecuted atheists. As for Stalin again maybe he was an atheist but he also left the preparations to be a priest before his career began and made the Russian Orthodoxy the official church in 1955. The majority of the followers of these dictators were religious and acted on their beliefs and it showed in their movements. Also lets not forget that even though communism ideally has no religion, this was obviously never achieved and never had a dictator to head that true form of communism. As for anyone else I mentioned or other events those are clearly religious based problems. To insist any of this had to do with atheism is as Christopher Hitchens put it in one of his debates "A filthy lie, undeserving of you". I want to make it clear that I am not blaming everything on religion I am just making the point that there never has been a mass murdering, warring, genocidal, oppressive atheist movement or regime. Religion obviously cannot make this claim. Which is one of my arguments. But this is not the only thing to address. I also gave an argument about why atheism is a more logical choice which has nothing to do with this and more to do with reason and evidence based thought. I only bring up the violence as a point but even if atheism also had violence you would be doing nothing to dispute if atheism was or was not better than religion in a whole sense. Also this is not a debate about whether a god(s) exists or not which only gets you to Deism. You want religion or Theism, which is the opposite of Atheism=no religion. Now there is no conclusive evidence for any religion. As believers are often only to proud to say it takes faith. But is that logical or reasonable? My side would say no. If you cannot prove something you cannot just say it is true and use it to derive morals, laws, ways of life or even personal decisions from (of course you have the right to make personal decisions from it I am just saying it isn't logical). It seems far more likely all religions are equal in the sense that they are all man made inventions that served as explanations for questions we didn't have answers to. Today there are still things we do not have answers to but using a Bible or the Vedas to find the answer by plugging in the gaps is not logical. We have science and philosophy and other areas to use evidence and reason to look for the answers to the big questions. We do not need to keep ourselves on the dark by insisting something is true based on faith, let's find out on our own. Lets discover what we do not know not look it up in a holy book. Since I brought up science I might as well make the point that religion has managed to block science even to this day. Imagine the progress humanity would have made if people who discovered that the earth went around the sun didn't have to worry about getting killed. If the library at Alexandria had never been raided and if stem cell research could go unimpeded and priests would quit preaching against condoms in aids infected Africa. Without religion we would in no doubt be further ahead than we are now and wouldn't have a population so scientifically illiterate that they believed global warming was a hoax or that evolution was a lie or that the big bang was just CGI on discovery channel. Not having a religion is the best way to go not just because there never would have been support for the mass murdering despots of history but because thought would always have been unrestricted and free, science could flourish in every population and moral decisions would always have been based on empathy and reasoning and the natural altruism in all of us. Not on the relativistic, what ever gods said in their , slavery ridden, rape promoting, genocidal versus. That is why it is better to not have religion, be atheistic I think this gets the ball rolling the right way, looking forward to hearing back from you!