  @Todd W- "Your equating it to condemning atheists or scientists for the acts of a few people who happen to be either atheists or scientists is disingenuous. Why? They are not part of, nor acting for, some structured organization. They are not agents, nor policy deciders, for any such organization. If they were, then yes, the same criticisms could be leveled at that organization."  But they are acting as atheists, right?  Here's an anecdote for you:  An SS officer watches as an elderly Jew laboriously digs what he knows to be his grave. Standing up straight, he addressed his executioner. "God is watching what you are doing," he said. Without a word, the officer shoots him dead.  And this is precisely the point. What Hitler or Stalin or Mao or the NKVD or the other perpetrators of our recent historical horrors did NOT believe was that God was watching what they were doing. That certainly meets my definition of what an atheist is. This does not mean that all atheists are evil by any stretch, nor am I claiming such.  