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Originally Posted by Henini
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I said that is wasn't done in the name of atheism. I never said that non religious people didn't kill each other or do any kind of atrocities.
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I'm not usually one to quote wikipedia, but I also don't know French history that well.
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Another anti-clerical uprising was made possible by the installment of the Revolutionary Calendar on 24 October. Hébert's and Chaumette's atheist movement initiated a religious campaign in order to dechristianize society. The program of dechristianization waged against Catholicism, and eventually against all forms of Christianity, included the deportation or execution of clergy; the closing of churches; the rise of cults and the institution of a civic religion; the large scale destruction of religious monuments; the outlawing of public and private worship and religious education; the forced abjurement of priests of their vows and forced marriages of the clergy; the word "saint" being removed from street names; and the War in the Vendée. The enactment of a law on 21 October 1793 made all suspected priests and all persons who harbored them liable to death on sight.
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Did these people kill in the name of atheism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror