(April 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm)iamatheist Wrote: Second of all yet again I will point out this was an argument against religion.. as in any group of people united under a doctrine. I feel that the excuse that their 'religion' gives these people is one of the strongest arguments against organised religion out there.
Exactly. Christians will agree with you that people calling themselves Christian while doing horrible acts aren't really Christian. It's a fallacious argument called the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but they think they can claim that all Christians are good if the Christians doing bad things aren't Christians. It doesn't matter if the bad people accept Jesus as their personal savior or not, according to Christians, people who commit atrocities or are just plain bad, nasty, rude people aren't being "real" Christians, like themselves. And if you're pointing out that Muslims like to commit acts of terrorism for their religion, Christians will point out that Christians never do anything like that. When you point out Scott Roeder, they say he's not a true Christian because Christians don't kill people. Unless it's under the death penalty, of course, but that's OK.
