comprehend said:of course I could not hold that position, I was just giving you a hard time. I agree with you that there has been terrible things done by religious people in the past, (no sane person could deny it). I was trying to speak to the overall trend of things. But it seems to me that the only thing that communism in Russia, China and Cambodia was athiesm. Russia and China had such vastly different ideas about communism that they hated each other for a long time. It was common though in all of the athiest societies that human beings lost their value. The society as a whole was all that mattered but the individual was worthless. If they believed in God, it would not be very likely that a people would accept that a human being was worthless. Anyway, I am sorry for wrecking your thread and thanks a lot both of you for the good natured discussion. I will delete these posts in the morning to clean up.
Don't bother deleting the posts, Comprehend! It's been an interesting digression and you've put your points in a very articulate and thoughtful way.