The "Cultural Context" Excuse

[ohreally]

We've been through this so many times. Drich won't rest until he's dragged everyone down to his level. He can't seem to believe some of us hope and strive for a better world.

He's doing a bang up job of showing how dangerous it is to base your morality on a grim fairy tale though. We should thank him, really.

I as an atheist don't have anyone else to thank except myself and other people for the horrible way we treat people, yet Drich here thanks god for those horrible actions.  

I don't understand the strong conviction for a theist to equate themselves with an atheist and feel good about it.  If all the the horrible things you think and believe as a theist are just the same as an atheist then come join our side and drop god and you'll find nothing has changed.