1. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149232 by gator68 on March 25, 2008 at 9:42 am

Comment #149210 by al-rawandi

No it was his foolish adherence to a ridiculous social system known as Communism that made him kill people.

You had to read what I was responding to. eepeist tried to construct a logical chain connecting atheism with killing lots of people. I was simply pointing out that his chain was broken.

2. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149197 by gator68 on March 25, 2008 at 8:57 am

Comment #149139 by epeeist

Assume that Stalin was an atheist and believed that any other position was wrong. It is perfectly possible to imagine him attempting to bend others to atheism and to kill them if they would not espouse this.

You went wrong on the bolded part. In your example it is not Stalin's athiesm that makes him want to kill other people. It is his belief that any other position is wrong... and a further belief that it is OK to kill people.

An ironic example... Just switch out "Stalin" and "atheism" and insert "the Pope" and "Christianity" for much of its history and you would have actual historical examples.