Dead White Male Atheists

T.S. Eliot – “If you will not have God you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.”

Atheism became fashionable among European and American elites in the mid to late 1800's. Comte, Huxely (more exactly an agnostic), Marx, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, were some of its chief proponents. As the followers of these men acquired more and more power in the twentieth century all hell broke loose.
People will believe in something. If they reject Christianity (forgiveness, loving your neighbor, serving the poor) they will seek an alternative. They may become merely superstitious. A small number (the most perverse?) will turn to Scientism – a dogmatic but unrewarding faith that asserts with no justification that the material world is all that exists. More will turn to Social Darwinism or racist Imperialism. Many will convert to Fascism or Communism. They will put their faith in eugenics or national glory or violent revolution. They will believe that the triumph of unfettered capitalism or socialism or one particular ethnic group will usher in a shining new age. Such a victory is worth laying down one's life and many other lives as well.
Today atheism is not quite as fashionable among the elites. Many scientists follow Einstein in rejecting atheism. A number of scientists are impressed by the “anthropic coincidences” and believe in God. Some of those working in quantum mechanics sound almost mystical. However, a few followers of Margaret Sanger (an ardent racist and believer in eugenics) remain, some devotees of Ayn Rand exist, and a few elderly Freudians can be found (to provide comic relief).
We can't let them gain the power they desire. They had their chance and they screwed up.
Some contemplate a future of high-minded atheists exchanging mild banter as they savor their (vegetarian) dinner and exchange pacifist manifestoes – but this is only fantasy.
Atheist self-perception: One who examines Christianity and concludes it is unreasonable. The atheist goes on to live a morally exemplary life.
Atheist reality: Atheists hate Christianity because it places restrictions on them. Some atheists are heartless businessmen, some wish to use women and discard them, some work for a dictator and enjoy eliminating "enemies of the people" - they do not want to worry about rules like "Love thy neighbor." They create a new faith wherein they are the deity.
Conclusion: Atheism was a disaster for the twentieth century - don't let the atheists repeat in the twenty-first!

Quotes:
Anthropic Coincidences from a Physicist
John Polkinghorne writes that: There are ... certain givens about our universe ... which play an important part in determining its history... quite small variations in any of these fundamental specifications of our world would have rendered it anthropically sterile. They would have condemned it to a boringly unproductive history... If we accept this view, then a meta-question arises of why things are this way...

Hitler Hated Christianity
A Hitler Youth marching song (Grunberger, A Social History) illustrates it: We follow not Christ, but Horst Wessel, Away with incense and Holy Water, The Church can go hang for all we care, The Swastika brings salvation on Earth.
http://www.bede.org.uk/hitler.htm

Communist Crimes
In sum the communists probably have murdered something like 110,000,000 http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM