Have people died or been killed in the name of atheism?

By July, AD 1796, nearly 500,000 Vendean Catholics were killed. All of these theists were killed at the hands of atheists. read more

So while there have certainly been atheist people who have carried out horrible acts (everyone loves to bring up Mao or Stalin), the fact is, its extremely unlikely any of these people did these acts in the name of atheism itself (rather than for some other reason, like maintaining control of the population). read more

Atheism was not responsible for these deaths. While most socialist countries were atheistic, the deaths in these countries were caused either by totalitarianism or famine. And, by the way, capitalism has killed more people thanks to colonization and imperialism than socialism has. It is estimated that every year 42 million babies die from abortion. read more