observer wrote:DrCyprus wrote:]
Your examples are irrelevant.
As irrelevant, or to be fair, as relevant as yours. Actually, religion is probably better since at least the source documents urge peace. Mein Kampf, Das Kapiltal and Mao's little red book all urge a struggle against another group of people. I'm unsure of the documentary source of North Korea's various Kims' world view but their public statements are pretty combative.
Your examples are still irrelevant, and your retort hasn't made them any better.
You mention Mao and Kim Jong Il to give examples of atheists and how they can be immoral. This isn't the point. Why don't you mention Atatürk btw, he was an agnostic/atheist as well and responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Hitler was fully backed by the Roman Catholic Church and considered an ally of Islam in the war against Jews, likened to the Prophet Mohammed himself.
… because we were jointly fighting the Jews. This led him to discuss Palestine and conditions there, and he then stated that he himself would not rest until the last Jew had left Germany. Kalid al Hud observed that the Prophet Mohammed … had acted the same way. He had driven the Jews out of Arabia ….[6]
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, helped the Nazis recruit soldiers for Muslim Waffen-SS units in the Balkans.[61]
Now, back to the point, the point is that even though religion is not the only cause of prejudice and unpleasant behaviour, it's still one of the main causes of prejudice and unpleasant behaviour.