As Hitch reminded audiences many times and schooled religious devotees about is obvious in history books around the world ... the people that did the bidding of these evil leaders were religious, they weren't secular. Sorry, parroting Christian fundamentalist talking points / propaganda to hate on atheism with doesn't work on me.
We are not too far off from each other, OGTG. But I think you are missing the point. I said explicitly in the previous post, the purpose of bringing up secular evils is not, repeat not, to promote a religious point of view over an atheist point of view. Or to argue, as the gentleman opposite of Hitchens was arguing, that the lack of religion was the cause of the atrocities. I’m not saying that at all. I’m an atheist too.
What I am saying is that the left vs right divide is independent of theism vs atheism, Democrat vs Republican, etc. I do not think the lack of religion was the cause of authoritarian regimes, as if all that was needed to prevent these atrocities was Jesus. But I am also saying that the lack of religion wouldn’t have prevented it either. That’s where it sounds like you were going with your line of thought - if religion is eradicated, then all is well. If you have a thriving environment of leftist thinking, you’ll end up in the same spot, the only difference being the justification for the tyranny.
If that is the case, I'm definitely not "left" leaning at all, I must be full "right", and what is more, I've never talked to a single person that is "left".
I don’t think most people are leftists. Have you talked to anyone that thinks “hate speech” is a form speech that can and should be banned? Have you talked to anyone that agrees with The Green New Deal? Have you talked to anyone that thinks health care is a right (as opposed to an entitlement)? Just take a gander at the Democrat line up this election cycle.