(March 29, 2017 at 10:13 am)ukatheist Wrote: Am I the only one completely befuzzled by this argument?
The meme says that atheists don't stone people so the implication is that non-atheists i.e. theists do. I don't think it is unreasonable to infer that, since the only difference between theists and atheists as a group are that theists believe in god(s), that this is in fact in reference to religious beliefs. Perhaps Hammy was incorrect to restrict this to just the bible but possibly you're being a little over-pedantic here Paul?
As to whether it is factually true, idk, I doubt judaism invented stoning, so likely used as a killing method by earlier religions/nations/non-religious groups. According to wiki, it was used as an execution method by the Aztecs too. I also think that there are likely many religions that didn't/don't use it, so singling out atheists as morally superior just because they (possibly) haven't/don't stone people is a bit disingenuous. Plenty of atheists support the death penalty to this day. Person still ends up dead, does it make a huge amount of difference if one is seemingly more 'humane' than the other?
Fwiw I also hate that 'good people/evil people' quote and meme, since in my view good and evil are religious concepts - so it actually needs religion for any of them.
But in my experience meme's are usually technically inaccurate, after all they are just soundbites with pictures, so really not something to get all worked up about.
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Whether I'm being too pedantic or not is subjective.
Remember all I did was see a meme saying no one was ever stoned to death by an atheist.
Stoning to death isn't limited to religious actions or religious people.
If we can agree that I'm not being pedantic or disingenuous in making that statement then I don't see how I'm being pedantic In NOT assuming that stoned to death means in religious circumstances.
If I say "no one without a machine gun ever shot someone" it's false. Just because I mentioned machine guns in the sentence doesn't mean shot related to machine guns.
If I say "No one without a penis ever sexually molested someone" it doesn't mean that the sexual molestation had to involve a penis, I'm making an incorrect statement about sexual molestations.
so if someone says an atheist never stoned someone to death why does the stoning have to be in a religious context?
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