A 2016 Twitter (Ѻ) theist propaganda “atheism leads to Hitler” image, depicting some of the leading atheists of recent years, namely: T.J. Kincaid, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, and Sam Harris.

“I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality. We will train young people before whom the world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence—imperious, relentless and cruel.”

“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ...we need believing people.”

— Adolf Hitler (1933), speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican concordant, Apr 26 (Ѻ)

Vladimir Lenin, supposedly, kept a Hugo Rheinhold thinking Darwin monkey statue displayed on his desk in the Kremlin. (Ѻ)(Ѻ)

“As an agent of our creator, by fighting off the Jews, I am doing the lord’s work.”

— Adolf Hitler (1925), Mein Kampf (Ѻ)

“I do not believe that a decay of dogmatic belief can do anything but good. I admit at once that the new systems of dogma, such as those of the Nazis and the Communists, are even worse than the old systems, but they could never have acquired a hold over men’s minds if orthodox dogmatic habits had not been instilled in youth. Stalin’s language, e.g., is full of reminiscences of the theological seminary. What the world needs is not dogma, but an attitude of scientific inquiry, combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.”

— Bertrand Russell (1954), Human Society in Ethics and Politics [4]

“I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of god is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that god is not out there.”

— Reginald Hollingdale (1971), Thomas Mann: A Critical Study

“The grandfather of Marxian atheism and Freudian atheism is Ludwig Feuerbach, who was first a theologian, then a Hegelian, and finally an atheistic philosopher.”

— Hans Kung (1990), Freud and the Problem of God [2]

“Stalin was an atheist and Hitler probably wasn’t; but even if he was, the bottom line of the Stalin/Hitler debating point is very simple. Individual atheists may do evil things but they don’t do evil things in the name of atheism.”

— Richard Dawkins (2006), The God Delusion [1]

“I known you feel that religion has been a bane to civilization, but I feel that atheism has, and I will point to the worst mass-murders in modern times: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot – all confirmed atheists.”

— Bill O’Reilly (2007), interview with Richard Dawkins (Ѻ)