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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Beyond that, don't forget the "Great Leap Forward" by Mao, which killed tens of millions (some say 40 million), and Stalin's Ukraine famine which by comparison, only killed about 10 million. But hey, they were atheists so somehow they don't count.
It's pretty much always greed. Other things are just excuses. In almost every religious conflict, greed is the real motivator.
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While Nazism and Communism are atheists, they both deify their leaders. Lenin was placed in a mausoleum and lighted, so the lines of worshippers could file by and pay homage to him. Mao's picture was all over China for years, may still be on walls and in buildings everywhere, in the same types of situations that religions icons were placed.
As for war and killing, humanity comes up with reasons for doing such things. Religious differences is only one such reason.
As for quantity, the Plague, in some years, killed over 50 percent of Europe.