text: Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were not "atheist movements".  They used atheism as an antithesis to the power of the deist religionists.  All of it was a means to establish power over others and justify evil acts.  Atheism is the absence of belief in a spirit god.  Atheism is not inherently evil.  These 3 evil human beings set themselves up as gods with followers just as blindly faithful as any other human religion.  Their atheism was merely to supplant other god-beliefs in order to gain absolute power.  You make the war comparison of which nothing in my statemnt supports.  Hitler rose out of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Germany providing the basis for his hatred and final solution for Jews.  My statement addresses the blind faith of any who willingly follow either human or spirit gods to the extent they lose their own humanity and respect for human existence.  Body counts have no relevance in discussion of "isms".  Humans killing humans is just a fact of life history.