RE: I can feel your anger
July 6, 2012 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2012 at 9:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 6, 2012 at 8:58 am)CliveStaples Wrote: If you kill someone because they're religious, and you think religious people deserve to die...how is that not motivated by atheism?cut and snipped because you answered your own question while asking the question, bolding is mine
It's motivated by the bolded bit above, and pro-tip, you don't even have to be an atheist to have such a motivation. Maybe you think religious people should die, particularly those religious people that don't agree with your religion. That sounds familiar doesn't it?
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There's a whole lot of fail not addressed in that post btw Clive, standouts include the justification of murder for profit, etc etc. It's entirely possible that you have no idea wtf you're talking about amigo. Here's my two cents. You really want atheism to be a bad thing. Trouble is that we only have to point to history(and current events) to draw the brush, so to speak. You are forced to squirm, redefine, assert, and engage in "what-ifs combined with concessions". Last I checked no one was defending Stalin or Pol-Pot under the banner of atheism, and if you'd be willing to go through your holy book and denounce any and all acts of violence commanded by god and carried out by men (or indeed, carried out by god himself) you and I would be on common ground here. People do things, the blame lies on the people who do things. This doesn't mean that you or I don't get to ridicule their idiotic "reasons" for doing them, so long as we can accurately represent those reasons, which in the case of atheism (at least your particular brand of atheism and all that it entails), you have failed to do.
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