Again, my issue is not with religion. My issue is with denial of reality when it conflicts with faith, instead of adjusting your faith to fit reality. As in, calling evolution a theory but not gravity or plate tectonics. As in, putting In God We Trust on our money and our schools. As in, when my kid joins a public school chorus, he sings hymns and psalms and gospel, but nothing about, say, Emmet Till or something actually educational. There are a lot of ways to teach 4-part harmony - they don't need to be singing Praise Jesus to learn that.

And Amos' point is extremely well-taken, M. Ted - Stalin was not murdering people in the name of atheism. In the name of communism, which is atheistic, sure. But not in the name of atheism. I can't think of one single atheist who killed one single human being just for believing in something supernatural. But I can think of loads of believers who have killed believers in something different.