Aww, Wolfgang, you've been watching that TV series on teh Crusades,
haven't you!

Nope. But it sounds interesting. What show is that?

It was on the History Channel last week. Perhaps it hasn't reached the
Great Heartland yet. Check your teevee schedule if you're interested.

"It wasn't so very long ago that" an atheist ordered the
killing of millions of innocent people.

There have been several candidates in recent history......I won't try to
guess which one you're alluding to.

Visarionovich Djugasvili, if I remember the spelling. AKA Joe Stalin.

His score has been guesstimated at ten million (give or take a few
hundred thousand).

Not sure whether Alois Schickelgruber was an athiest.

One thing is certain, though......if we include the FIRST
atheists in the tally, it's no contest.

My impression, based on my limited reading of anthropology and
history, is that human beans, going back at least as far as the
neolithic revolution, have believed in gods, goddesses, spirits,
monotheism, or whatever; so it follows that in all probability, most
of the kiling has been done by those who "believe."

How much has been done *because* they believe, I have no idea.

vince