Saudi Arabia executes 81 human beings in one day.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Now that you guys mention it, I am somewhat familiar with the Nazis being tried at Nuremberg. But on an unrelated note......81 people is not very many people, chump change really, and people die all the time from all kinds of causes. What makes this particular case special?

After withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan, Biden confiscated billions of dollars in Afghan funds from foreign banks. Then he gave half of it to people affected by 9-11, even though the Afghani people had little or nothing to do with 9-11. Basically Biden stole it, because he could. Some of it he will "give back" to Afghanistan as aid, which we can feel kind and generous about. 

Anyway, far more than 81 people will die as a result of having their money stolen during a harsh winter when the economy was in bad shape anyway. 

So you're right, in relation to the evils done consistently by the USA, 81 is chump change.

But the 81 in question were killed by Muslims, so it gives us license to get all mad and high and mighty and blame some amorphous thing called "religion." Because it isn't really about morality. It's about us vs. them.

It manifestly IS about morality, it is about nothing BUT morality. State-sanctioned murder is always immoral, whether it is done under secular or religious law.

I get more than a little pissy when some of my fellow atheists decry infinite punishment for finite transgression (Hell, or the cultural equivalent), but - sometimes in the same breath - support capital punishment. Once someone lops off your head or electrocutes you or lethally injects you or strangles you or employs  any of the other delightfully savage methods we’ve invented to punish criminals, you are infinitely dead for a crime that was finite.

Westerners who support capital punishment are - in this respect - neither morally superior to or less savage than their Muslim counterparts who do the same.

Boru