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ATHEISTS' /
ATHEISM CRIMES
Atheists are quick to
point out that throughout history large numbers of people were killed in the
name of religion, but they fail to mention the countless who were killed by
leaders who worshipped themselves or by Communists who were driven by a
hatred for God and Religion.
YESTERDAY
"The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror,
Repression, published by Harvard University Press, is the work of eleven
scholars that ignited a continental firestorm when it first hit bookstores
in France in 1997. The authors estimate the century's death toll at the
hands of Communist governments (excluding wars) at 100 million people.
Country by country, deaths by the state in China stand at 65 million, in the
USSR 20 million, Vietnam 1 million, North Korea 2 million, Cambodia 2
million, Eastern Europe 1 million, Latin America 150,000, Africa 1.7
million, and Afghanistan 1.5 million. Additionally, the international
Communist movement murdered about 10,000 people throughout the world."
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Daniel J Flynn, "Ideas Have
Consequences... Like Murder, Tyranny, and Repression," Accuracy in
Academia,
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/March_2000_4.html,
(Viewed January 5, 2007).
TODAY
"Sadly, the specter of Communism
still haunts the world. In Russia, one-third of the people believe that
Stalin "did more good than bad for the country," according to a recent poll.
In China, thousands of dissidents are imprisoned in the slave labor camps
known as the laogai. In North Korea, masses starve as the leadership
threatens to unleash nuclear war. In Cuba, dissidents are routinely
imprisoned for peacefully petitioning for democratic reform."
Victims of Communism Memorial
Foundation,
http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/history_communism.php, (Viewed January
5, 2007).
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