[GourmetDan]

"The Khmer Rouge killed people for not beleving unreservedly in their system. I was reffering to theoretical paradigm in which belief in any given system is not enforced. This would exclude Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot. The United States is as close in human history as we’ve been to such a system."

So all we have to do is get a definition such that killing that is not motivated by a belief in god is OK, but killing that is motivated by a belief in god is not OK and then proclaim that disbelief is superior?

Cool.

[Borges]

Sorry I don’t see how you got that from my statement. My point was that regimes like those of Hitler, Stalin and Mao were similar to those of Robspierre's France, Calvin’s Geneva, Cromwell’s England and Inquisition era Spain in that they had consequences for the lack of belief.