(March 19, 2012 at 10:28 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 10:21 am)StatCrux Wrote: 1.You think its perfectly acceptable to accuse a group of people of a crime or imply an involvement if any of their members commit that crime. That is perfectly logical thinking to you?
No, that would be unfair. No questions. Accuse a group who wants to tell you how to be moral, of their hypocrisy in higher than average immoral behaviour.. pretty fair.
Quote:2.Are you trying to say that atheists are somehow morally superior/better people? as shown by prison statistics?
Not as such, rather that the religious are NOT morally superior or better people on the basis of their absolute moral authority. Atheists cannot show correlation as we make no claim on moral authority.
What this comes down to.. is if you declare homosexuality as immoral, you have to hold yourself to a moral standard which is not being upheld, and worse, transgressions actively hidden.
Which all seems perfectly reasonable. Now in context, when discussing same sex marriage is is relevant or appropriate to introduce the issue of paedophilia? Or as I have said, is it a juvenile and ad hominem attack not relevant to the discussion? which was my original point on this subject.
