What's wrong with religion is that it has always enabled people like...

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63. Those other variables of which you speak mean little when the numbers are so pronounced.

Your variables are nothing more than excuses to rationalize those events. IOW, dead is dead. The simple fact is that many were killed for not adapting to forced state atheism.


In 1955, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev said, "We are doing everything we can to eliminate the bewitching power of the opium of religion.”

The ATHEIST’S HANDBOOK was published in Moscow in 1959 in conjunction with Khrushchev’s campaign to eliminate the remaining traces of religion in the U.S.S.R. This text attacks the Bible, the Qur’an, Christianity, and Islam. “Science,” says the Handbook, “has long since established that Jesus Christ never existed, that the figure of the alleged founder of Christianity is purely mythical.”4 And according to the Handbook, the Apostle Paul, too, turns out to be “a mythical figure.”