Some of the most oppressive regimes of the twentieth century were constructed on the philosophical foundations of secular atheism. Precise numbers are difficult to determine, but in Stalin’s Soviet Union, some estimate twenty million people were killed. Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China resulted in sixty-five million deaths. And the Khmer Rouge decimated an entire generation, two million people, in Cambodia’s killing fields just a few decades ago. The oppression continues in North Korea where at least two million have been killed.
