Does the World Need Religion?

[phoenix31]

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.

I'm not really trying to state a case, I'm trying to discuss the whole thing and come to terms with what I think about it. I'm looking for answers from you because this is all new to me and I'm not much of a thinker.

I don't think there can be such a thing as an atheistic crime because atheism is just the absence of a belief in God. But it does make sense to me that there is less of a restraint for an atheist when it comes to committing heinous acts because of (some of) the reasons cited from that guy. (I don't even know who he is.) For instance, the Nazis killing for the sake of the evolution of the species.

I don't understand how calling Schlafly a bigot and refusing to address what he states is useful.