(January 25, 2017 at 3:03 pm)phoenix31 Wrote:(January 25, 2017 at 2:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Look at the language you're using here: atrocities in the name of religion vs atrocities by people who were atheists. Now I'll ask you again to demonstrate that those atrocities were committed for atheistic reasons. Not simply by atheists.
And I don't give a shit what Andrew Schlafly's bigoted little platform says.
I don't think there is such a thing as an atheistic reason, is there? He was saying that it makes sense that atheists could be (or are) more prone to commit atrocities for those reasons that were listed. You don't have an answer for it?
I don't need one. You're the one stating the case, you're the one who needs to support it. You already conceded that there is no atheistic reason for committing atrocities, while earlier agreeing that there are many religious ones. To equate the two as though they were in any way comparable is, then, hugely dishonest.
Does a crime perpetrated (not perpetuated) by a person who identifies as atheist automatically become an atheistic crime?
And again I couldn't care less what a bigot like Schlafly says.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
