And your alternative Greg? You obviously didn't read THAT part of my post. I'll overlook your gleeful yet overblown description of religion, which looks at it (surprise! surprise!) entirely from without and not from within. Just tell me what atheism has to offer to the broken-hearted and downtrodden.

Tug, "Even at a conservative estimate, the death toll is greater than that of Stalin, Hitler and, of course Pol Pot."

Do you have a source for this? I'm not even sure there were as many people alive then as were killed by Stalin (up to 50 mil), Mao (up to 35 mil), and Pol Pot (numbers not to hand).