Christianity vs. Atheism

There are people that believe Christianity is the worst thing to befall the world, ever. This thought ideology primarily revolves around the crusades, the deaths associated with the crusades, and various other times where people misinterpreted God's word and killed, claiming that they did so in God's name. This is obviously untrue but these incidents did happen and those responsible did believe that they were doing God's will. This is similar to the Islamic fundamentalists of today.Let's examine the atrocities that Anti-Christians attribute to Christianity. Bear in mind there is a distinct difference between Christianity and religion.There are three standout examples of religion gone awry; again these are examples where people used God’s name, not where God instructed people to do what they did. The first would be the Crusades of the Middle Ages, then The Spanish Inquisition, and finally the burning of witches in Salem and other places as well. Scholars estimate that The Crusades of the Middle Ages cost from 58,000 to 133,000 lives. The most realistic figure for the Spanish Inquisition puts the total killed from AD1480 to AD1808 at 31,912 people. Finally, records indicate that the number of “witches” killed may be over 30,000. Some argue that records don't tell everything and suggest that maybe even 100,000 were killed. (I would argue that just because these events took place in a "Christian" nation does not mean they were a cause of Christianity, but let's just forget that for now, for argument's sake.)These three events, totaling over 264,000 killed, are thought to be the largest atrocities perpetrated by one or another form of "Christendom". However, they pale into insignificance in comparison to the consequences of atheism.According to University of Hawaii political scientist Rudolph J. Rummel, the total number of people, intentionally killed in all of human history is estimated to be about 284,638,000. Of that number, 151,491,000 were killed during the past 100 years. The single largest killer in all of human history is, by far, atheistic Communism (i.e. The Russian Bolsheviks) with a total of 110,000,000 over 1/3 of all of the people ever killed! If we add to that number just two other regimes where religion of any sort was strongly discouraged, Nazi Germany and Nationalist China, the number rises to 141,160,000. Almost 50% of all the killings in human history were committed in the past 100 years by regimes that either actively promoted atheism or strongly discouraged religion.

Before someone advises me that Hitler was in fact a theist and not an atheist, I am aware. His obsession however, was with German nationalism, not the teachings of Jesus Christ, and his religious beliefs reflected this. Most scholars and historians believe Hitler to be a mixture of the Christianity of the Roman Empire and old-school odinism, but his focus for the nation was Nationalism and not permitting religion to interfere with Germany’s government.
When the murders of history are tallied up, it is very clear that atheism is the most dangerous philosophy ever embraced by humanity. Sadly atheism is a belief in nothing and people actually choose to try to embrace that nothingness. When they do we see what the result is…