Firebrand atheists and firebrand Christians will probably always be at each other's

throats, but their arguments do occasionally produce some interesting questions.

One of these is a perpetual topic of their debates.

Have atheist regimes or Christian regimes been responsible for more deaths throughout

humanity's bloody history of warfare?

Well, the answer depends on who you ask.

And we're going to find out what it is today on Skeptoid.

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Who kills more religion or atheism?

Hide that Bible in your pocket as the guard hustles you down the snowy road

on your way to eventual death in Stalin's Gulag.

For today's subject is the debate over whether more people throughout history

have been killed in the name of religion or in the name of atheism.

Atheist authors like Christopher Hitchens, Michael Shermer, and Sam Harris are always

debating religious authors like Denesh D'Souza, William Demsky, and Alistair McGrath about whether

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