ah! we have much more to be thankful for a la mode of Atheism for Collectively murdering more than 100 million people. From Mao Zedong, to Enver Hoxha, to stalin, to Pol Pot to Kim II Sung -- here we have it folks a pantheon of history's great Atheists.
If smelly beads offend you-- then I hope so does the stench of mass graves.... if ten thousand years seems like a long stretch to give you great architecture, hymns, and hope, then have a look at what a few G-Dless ones can do--! YES-- atheism has killed more people in a short span, than all religions combined. let's tote up the casualty count achieved by those few officially atheistic regimes the world has seen, and see who beats whom by a thousand miles!
An atheist Zealot? oxymoronic? Nah!
In 1967, following two decades of progressively harsher persecution of religion under his rule, Hoxha triumphantly declared his nation to be
the first and only officially atheist state in history. Partly inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, he proceeded to confiscate mosques, churches, monasteries, and shrines. Many were immediately razed, others turned into machine shops, warehouses, stables, and movie theaters. Parents were forbidden to give their children religious names. Anyone caught with the Qu'ran, Bibles, icons, or religious objects faced long prison sentences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_pot
atheism the path of the illuminati? You be the judge-- every bit as culpable-- if not abhorrently more!...
peace!