Another reason Buddhism doesn't get a pass.

[Brian37]

I apologize for expressing my views and making all of you use such offensive language. Peace

Be sorry instead that you condone rape and consider the victims of rape to be the true criminals.

Any other response than a full renunciation of your earlier views just shows you to be evil.

I don't think most humans are inherently evil. I do think bad logic can and does lead humans to condone evil acts that without such absurd beliefs they wouldn't otherwise. But again, that is what religion does to human thought. It gets otherwise reasonable humans to hold absurd beliefs which lead them to condone bad acts.

It is what allows one Christian to promote compassion, while unwittingly giving cover to other Christians who use the same book to justify cruelty. 

I find the likes of Martin Luther King Jr very empathetic to human struggle. I also find the likes of Malala and Ann Frank to be very empathetic humans. But that does not make any god real, and  unfortunately it also allows humans to remain divided.

Now again, I would become a monster myself as an atheist if I promoted the use of force to end any religion, there is no way in a messy imperfect world anyone is going to create their own utopia. But that does not at the same time mean religion deserves blind value or deserves to be blasphemy free.