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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Really? How many holy wars have atheists started? Burnings at the stake?

Careful there. While with religious wars we mean wars that religions intentionally started on behalf of religions and their dogma, "atheists" hardly launch wars on behalf of atheism, but many non-religious names in history who waged wars for different ideas, for example Hitler, will not be seen different by pro-religion-people here. I just wait for somebody listing Hitler and claiming German fascism to have been a war with the goal to spread atheism as a military objective. Which of course is pretty much nonsense. Spreading atheism like religion tries to spread its dogma was no explicit goal of the German war against Poland, France, Britain, Russia, etc.

One should differ between the goal of spreading atheism itself, and trying to acchieve something else (for example establishing one's own rulership over a territory) while just happening to be atheist. But the religious crowd usually does not make this difference - it allows them to attack more easily and linking all evil to atheism, ignoring the evil linked to religion anyway.