RE: Men & children killed & dismembered by an atheist.
February 8, 2013 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2013 at 5:52 pm by WinterHold.)
(February 8, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I wasn't trying to accuse anyone of being a serial killer. To the contrary, I was pointing out the hypocrisy in painting one person as a godless atheist with the potential to kill based on their (allegedly) expressed opinion on what they could get away with doing in the absence of an inhibiting god, while simultaneously painting oneself as a morally self-righteous person of faith when holding exactly the same opinion and interpretation of it. If I may rephrase my question, as I can see it could have been misleading, that makes Jeffrey Dahmer an atheist - how? And if it's your continued contention that it does, it makes you not an atheist - how?
Never heard about words like "more prone" ?
Atheism makes a certain person more prone to submit to instinct more than religious people.
You can also say that atheism mixed with another ideology is what makes atheism not dangerous to society.
To answer you adjusted question, Dahmer believed in atheism without an ideology, I thought atheism alone was our point of discussion, not atheism mixed with other ideologies to force constraints.
Believing in god alone without religion would mean a similar thing.A person like that is also dangerous -mongols are my example- they believed in god, but without any kind of ideology which might make that believe within limits.
Don't mix things with each other, we're talking about atheism alone, which most people here think it's an ideology enough to raise a country.
Atheism alone is as dangerous as anarchy.
and not being an ideology, it's almost impossible to compare with religion. It's more healthy to compare atheism with Theism, not a certain religion.
A believe confronting a believe, but a believe (atheism) fighting a Theist ideology (like islam) is something totally else, not even comparable.
Most atheists today have a national ideology, which why most discussions here get mixed with politics, feelings of personal hate (people like zone, who obviously hates islam because of 9/11), ...etc, most of you don't even debate from an atheistic pov, it's always mixed with something else.
So please, stimbo, how can I answer your question without knowing what kind of atheist you are ?
A pure atheist without an ideology would probably be more & more prone to foul acts, more than any other person.
