(March 25, 2017 at 2:16 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The scare quotes indicate that 'stoned to death' implies the biblical sense of stoning and even if an atheist used that biblical reason the whole point is it's not meant to be taken that literally and that even if there are exceptions where atheists did 'stone someone to death' under biblical reasons that's just another example of religion doing harm as religion couldn't be used for an excuse if religion didn't exist.
No one was ever 'stoned to death' by an atheist means "atheism never causes biblically based stoning but the bible certainly can cause it."
So what you think is that the statement "No one has ever been 'stoned to death' by an atheist." means that people have most likely been stoned to death by atheists but not for biblical reasons. But also that it could be for biblical reasons.
From what I've read up on scare quotes aren't used that way.
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