(May 6, 2012 at 1:59 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Do you see the resemblance (apparently not)? All he did was repeat my statement and dress up the part about atheists. That still does not answer my question about "killing in the name of Christianity". You claim that it is political reasons and not their lack of belief in God for atheists that leads them to do evil things (oh and you had to put emphasis on it being just "certain" atheist ie no true Scotsman) but Christians (no emphasis on "certain" or "just some" more like insinuating "all") are just following a book when they do evil things that just happened to result in them having political power (coincidence I guess). Apparently only atheist can have political reasons...
Actually, while I wasn't addressing that particular point, it does answer your question about "killing in name of Christianity" - you are just too stupid to get it. Christians can have political reasons, but when the religious reasons are presented as the primary excuse, then it is killing in name of Christianity. Take Bush for instance. While he may have been yelling "god guides me", he made no excuse of the fact that the primary cause of war was a political strife. He didn't use bible as justification for Guantanamo and that is why we don't vilify Christianity for it. Other wars which did use it as an excuse will be used as an argument against Christianity.
And saying "certain" is not using "no true Scotsman", because no one is denying that they weren't atheists. Its used to indicate that not all atheists follow the same philosophy (political or otherwise). All Christians, on the other hand, follow the same theology. So there is no need to put a "certain" there.
