Actually, I was not comparing atheists to nazis, I was comparing your rhetoric to the nazis. Using terms such as "virus" to describe a distinct religious group that you disfavor.

Perhaps you were confused by my discussion of the missionary activities of atheistic commies. You know, like the invasion of Afghanistan.

Nope. It's dogmatic thinking that is to blame.

When one group thinks they are better than everybody else, and that their way is the the only way, they feel justified in crushing everybody else.

This goes for christians, nazis, communists, etc. All of these creeds are symptoms of a larger disease, which is dogmatism. It's unfortunate that these memes are so good at reproducing themselves.

And btw, nobody has ever killed anybody in the name of atheism. Atheism is simply the lack of belief in god. Even though a dogma may include atheism as one of its beliefs, it is not because of atheism that they are dogmatic.

Christianity, on the other hand, . . .

I'm not sure how you can admit that atheism was a central part of communism, but deny that it had any complicity on the attrocities that commies inflicted on the world.

As for Christianity "on the other hand." I readily admit that Christianity has encouraged many behaviours and caused much change in the world that atheism never could. For examples, the Red Cross, the YMCA, the works of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the works of the Rev. William Lloyd Garrison, the founding of the thousands of Hospitals in this country (Baptist Hospital, St. Luke's Presbyterian, Holy Cross Hospital, St. Mary's, etc., etc.), the criminalization of infanticide and establishment of charities in the Roman empire, and the Salvation Army.

Oh, and the encouragement of a multitude of social good. A study of identical twins by Dr. Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist, indicated that religious belief reduces stress levels, protects against drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse (and in the case of users, helps reduce use), and is a defense against many forms of mental illness. American Journal of Psychiatry, March 1997.

I guess if you already have 1 form of something it is harder to get it in another form.....

I'm sorry layman,jk, I couldn't resist.....

It's okay, it doesn't surprise me that you continue with your marginalizing rhetoric. Goebbels would be proud.