Somebody tell adam eberg that the problem with the atheistic regimes to which he refers—Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler—is that they were too much like religions. It wasn't the atheism that killed people, it was the unthinking devotion to charismatic leaders who demonized all opposition and turned “intellectual” into an insult. Those nutjobs were much more like religious cult leaders than they were atheists. Besides, for an atheist, Hitler sure did talk a lot about God—with the backing of the Catholic Church.