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Originally Posted by August
Hitler and Stalin were athiests.
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Not really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_H...eligious_views
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It'd be wrong to imply that non believers are any less murderous than anyone else.
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Then why are atheists extremely underrepresented in the US prison population?
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Religion is just a handy excuse, a non religious excuse would serve just as well.
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It's true that religion can be can be used to attain purely secular goals.
But beliefs have consequences, and a lot of violence happens for solely religious reasons.