
Originally Posted by
dedo
No one indoctrinated me.
Really! Please elaborate?

Originally Posted by
dedo
It is true that in seeking God it is important to join a local church since community and scholarly instruction are both important.
However, I attended local the local church for years without a firm conviction that God exists. It was only when I decided to seek God on my own, in addition to attending the local church that things changed.
Still need you to elaborate? because you're not to convincing at the moment.

Originally Posted by
dedo
It is reasonable to call genocide that is initiated by a professed atheist an atheist genocide.
How so! Atheism is simply the lack of belief in god/gods. it has no doctrine nor tenets. the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were not committed in the name of atheism per se but for political, racial and nationalistic reasons.

Originally Posted by
dedo
That is because you would expect that if God exists then He would try to turn a person away from evil. Thus, if a person totally rejects God either from professed atheism, or from a perverted religious practice such as making yourself / party some sort of religion, then the leader has chosen to separate himself from God.
The important point is that it was not their lack of belief in a god which drove them and motivated them. The fanatical and uncompromising political, racial and nationalistic dogmas which animated them were not the product of any religious belief or lack thereof, but political beliefs taken to excess. Thus, while Stalin and Mao happened to be atheists, they did not do their deeds in the name of atheism, but in the name of their own dogmatic variant of Marxism.

Originally Posted by
dedo
Thus, you can reasonably call the genocides committed by Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao, atheist genocides.
No you cant. Fascism and communism, with their extreme dogmatism and reliance on personality cults, are actually themselves like a kind of religion. In the warped communism of Stalin and Mao, the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God of Christianity was essentially replaced with the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God of the State. Fascism and Communism, are merely different forms of religion. it is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. They are as dogmatic as religion whereas atheism isn't. Communism was found by Jesus, the book of Acts is basically a communist manifesto

Originally Posted by
dedo
Mixing power and atheism is a bad thing.
Wrong again! Atheism has no tenets no doctrines thus it isn't a principle, cause, philosophy, or belief system which people fight, die, or kill for. Being killed by an atheist is no more being killed in the name of atheism than being killed by a fat person is being killed in the name of fatness.

Originally Posted by
dedo
What we don't know if a person truly practices the nonviolent instructions of many religions (altruism, love of neighbor) etc., if this would have a positive / protective effect.
What non-violent instruction?!!! The holy books are rife with incitements to violence. Please elaborate and cite your source.