Whether these men were Atheists or not doesn't matter. I get so tired of this specific argument, this back and forth battle between believers and non-believers. One camp says blood has been shed because of God, the other camp says blood has been shed because of a lack of God. I think they're both right. So then the argument becomes, which belief system has a greater capacity for murder? Which one is more predisposed towards bloodshed? The focus should be on humanity itself. The truth is that Man has a great capacity for good and evil, and neither one requires God. Inversely, man can do good or evil things because of God.
Obviously it's an important debate in terms of analyzing history, though.
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