Respect atheists, but remember they’re all potential mass-murderers

Thanks to Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor we have a new addition to the standard ‘Hitler and Stalin killed people because they were atheists’ line. As always I feel obliged to remind that Hitler wasn’t an atheist, but that’s far from the biggest crime against history here - it’s not just because of their atheism they killed millions of people, it’s because they ruled by REASON!

Danger because, if you go just by reason, I think, without faith, without belief in God, you can imagine, for instance in the last century, some of the faith(less), or supposedly faithless societies - people, whether it’s like Hitler or Stalin, bringing up - having a country in which, if you like, a God free zone, a dictatorship ruled by reason, and where does it lead? To terror and oppression.

Yes! Damn that reason they were so known for! It seems there are those out there who see it as ungracious for atheists to attack a religious figure after he asks people to ‘respect atheists’, but when his speech is laced with reminders that all atheists are just little Hitlers in waiting, I really see no need to be gracious or give the tiniest bit of respect. This statement confuses me a little:

Of claims that faith has no basis in reason, he replied: “To believe in God is not unreasonable.”

Wait, so to believe in God is reasonable… but societies ruled by reason lead to terror and oppression! Well now I don’t know what to think…