--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 2008, at 5:40 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> > >> Strangely, the mass genocides throughout history are always > > connected > >> to 'men of god'...doesn't that tell us anything? > > > > > > > > > > Actually, the greatest mass genocides throughout history have been > > connected to people who are NOT "men of god" but, rather, the > > complete opposite. They were connected to men who were atheists. > > > > Mao Zedong, history's greatest mass murderer (about 80 million) was a > > communist. Chinese Communism's official stand on God is atheism. > > Wrong. Islam holds the greatest believed record in India, Afghanistan > and Pakistan.
...please provide some sources, references...and numbers... > > Mao Zedong: Pre-Taoist Theistic pagans, all very, very poor. > > > > > Joseph Stalin, history's 2nd greatest mass murderer (oh, anywhere > > from 20 to 60 million; not sure as those pesky communists didn't keep > > great records) was also a communist and, like China, the USSR had > > atheism as the official state religion. > > > > Pol Pot: atheist. > > Pre-Buddhist paganism, very poor. > > > > > > > Fidel Castro: atheist. > > Roman Catholics with a smattering of crypto-Jews. > > > > > > > ...and so on... > > None of these leaders did the actual killing, but they commanded large > swath of people who did. > > Who did the killing? > > Follow the blood. >
