Theists: Hitchens Wager

[The Grand Nudger]

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I've got one for you, Chimp.  Approach the wager from the other direction...entirely, from it's punchline.  Think of some immoral act that only a theist can do.  

Killing (or dying-or both..simultaneously) in service to their theistic beliefs?   

What if this was, instead, the only moral act that a theist can do that an atheist can't?

I don't see any reason to die or kill for atheism. I don't see how this precludes any other psycho atheist from doing so.

The wager, though, is what an atheist can't do that a theist can.  Dying (por killing, or killing and dying) for a particular belief in god is something that no atheist could do.  They don't possess that belief.  We commonly consider that to be an instance of immorality, martrydom as evil, because it's so commonly leveraged to what we might consider evil ends. 

It's a difficult question to answer, I've spent some time thinking about it, from time to time.  Like a puzzle, you just want to crack it and offer some credible answer.  So, consider the counterfactual.  If, in some circumstance, that sort of martyrdom was a morally correct (dare I say righteous) act...then wouldn't this by definition be a moral act that an atheist would be incapable of doing?