They have, but the biggest killers by a country mile have always been atheists, like hitler, Mao, Stalin et all. Evil is evil no matter who commits the atrocity, but why is it always Muslims attacking Christians?

Hitler was not an Atheist he was a Roman Catholic and never renounced his faith. Stalin spent five years studying to be a Russian orthodox monk and Mao thought he was God. Cyphers you are talking total crap.
The physicist Steven Weinberg said that regardless of religion you will have” good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.” However, “for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.” I find that very insightful and depressingly correct.

Correct. Plus, Islam is intolerant of other religions in Islamic countries. But, they expect other countries to be tolerant of Islam in Christian countries. Dare you try to criticise Islam in any shape or form & Islam throws a megga hissy fit. Look at the Danish cartoons over the top reaction. Christianity & Judaism allows, permits & tolerates criticism of their respective religions & no big deal. Doesn’t religion preach tolerance towards others ? It seems only when the shoe fits when it comes to Islam. Disgraceful behaviour towards people worshipping in their church.

There is another issue here; Atheists are people who do not believe in gods. Atheists don’t kill people because they are not Atheists, but religious people do kill people simply because they are not of their religion. No Atheist, or more precisely no Humanist, I’m aware of, killed people because of their religion or lack of religion. The Muslims who blew up the church in Nigeria blew it up because they were brainwashed. Humanists are not brainwashed. Humanists are objective and scientific. Religion with its brainwashing is ignorance. Religion breeds hatred. Religion must be stopped asap. People who think religion is harmless must accept that it is very dangerous because it’s based on ignorance. Those that practice and promote religion are as guilty as those that blew up the Church full of men, women and children. New Year’s resolution: dump your religion. Join the Humanists.

There is nothing wrong with the concept of religion. It’s man’s interpretation of it that is the problem & this horrendous attack proves that.

Declan religion is 100% man made and this act of savagery is just one piece of evidence that religion poisons everything and has no redeeming factors.Our world would be a lot better off without superstitious beliefs.

Organised Christianity would shut us up too given the chance, but most of the west has stronger faith in civil and political rights than in the rights of extremists not to be offended by criticism, or by people practising other (=false or even blasphemous) religions. It’s nice to see the old traditions being kept alive tho, especially that old chestnut about atheist mass murderers…classic red herring

Spot on joe

U hit a very big nail on the head there, Diarmaid T. Yes – “it’s not cool”. Sometimes truth isn’t if it doesn’t fit an agenda. Is part of what this story is about related to a wider Islamicisation of that part of the world ? See Qur’an 9:29 as quoted by Ehud. Whatever the reason behind the attack, it is worrying, disgraceful, disgusting & goes against what religion is meant to be about. Love, acceptance & tolerance.

The religion of peace.

Utter nonsense Cyphers, Hitler was a catholic read Mein Kampf and listen to his speeches and references to god.Can you please explain what Darwinism or Atheism got to do with genocide?

Cypher, Hitler claimed to be a Vegetarian. Does that mean Vegetarians are guilty of genocide? Hitler was correct to believe in Evolution, Evolution is a fact. Just because Hitler believed in it doesn’t make it any less of a fact. Your lack of logical ability is probably why in the face of ALL evidence you are religious. The Muslims who blew up the church and killed more than 35 people, killed them because of their religion. In the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre Catholics in France killed over 5,000 Protestants because of their religion. Religion is based on nonsense and any belief based on nonsense is obviously very dangerous. All religious people are in some ways responsible for the extremes of religion because they give support to it. Mohamed Atta’s father brought him up a Muslim. If he had brought him up as an Atheist it’s highly unlikely he would have flown a plane into the twin towers.

Nazi uniforms had “god with us” written on the buttons, many of the insignia and medals were crosses and Hitler made frequent references to god, not to mention the ancient Christian tradition of hating the god-killing Jews. Hitler was not an atheist.
If he had been an atheist that would not follow that he as a genocidal maniac because of atheism, Hitler was a vegetarian therefore vegetarianism causes genocide? Total non-sequitur.

Mao was not a fan of people with education or any ideological, ethical, moral etc point of view that would encourage them to disagree with his own plans for China. He didn’t only hate religion, he hated anything that would encourage people to disagree with him.

There are loads of references to religious people attacking people of other religions here. You only noticed the genocides that took place during the modern era with the technological and organisational ability to kill efficiently, how much more bloody would our history have been had the same technology been available in the past? Also, you never noticed that the Yugoslav conflict was actually a war between orthodox (Serb) catholic (Croat) and muslim. More crazies killing each other over the different ways they believe in the same imaginary friend.