Atheism is responsible for murder, rape, and genocides!?!?

I didn't know atheism was so horrible ....wow, i feel like a real asshole. To think that my non-belief in a god has caused so much death and destruction. I bet if Pol Pot (think that's how his name is spelled) just believed that Jesus Christ was his lord and savior, he wouldn't have killed all those people. We all know that no Christians have ever used religion to justify killing people right? right?

 /end sarcasm


Beliefs don't kill people, people kill people. People use beliefs to justify killing, and people are very creative at justifying violence. I don't want to lump all atheists (or anyone for that matter) into one group. But I find that atheists, if anything, tends to ask 'why' more-so than Believers. Deep thinking helps keep shallow thinking in check (the kind of shallow thinking that is responsible for genocide). To commit a genocide you must polarize a group of people so that they do everything you desire—which includes mindlessly murdering people—for the greater-good. How often has the 'greater good' been religion?

Atheism does not cause people to become polarized, if anything it does the opposite. Skepticism has never killed anyone, religious polarization has.