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I think the fact that the Bible stories are taken as examples of righteous genocide is relevant, even if they are not true.

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I don't know if these numbers are right or not and I don't plan on checking, but I think there's record of enough deaths in reality without going to stories.

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Any source that blames atheism for the Nazi Holocaust is ignorant at best. The Nazis in general weren't atheists or supporters of atheism. Germany on the other hand has a long history of Christian anti-semitism. Luther has been mentioned already, but there's more to it like "Saint" Werner of Oberwesel I think that it is fair to say that Christianity had much more to do with the Holocaust than atheism.

If God is a moral being, and if religion is the source of morals then logically God must have a religion that underlies all his moral judgements :-).That's not really a joke - there is a lot of confused thinking on the subject of morality and it's relationship to religion, and you need to be sure that you've got your views straightened out.