Men & children killed & dismembered by an atheist.

[Aegrus]

I get the original purpose of the thread but it flies in the face of the more obvious point for why people deride those of faith for their crimes.

you see, those of faith have long, long made the claim [for thousands of years in fact] that faith = good and faithlessness = bad. They have always made the claim that being faithful makes you a better person and to be a non-believer made you less than human. Cut to today where the ideas of what is good and considered moral have since evolved past the point of mindless devotion, to inquisitive answer-seeking of the universe and its properties.

We point at those of religious faiths who commit these atrocities not because their faith induces it, but rather because we simply are pointing out a simple fact of life; religion a better person does not make, despite the still-constant claims made otherwise.

I agree completely. I don't bring up religious atrocities to claim that atheism is somehow morally superior to religion. I do it to show that religion=/=good. That there are both atheist murderers and Christian murderers does a very good job of proving that the Christian god does nothing to make her followers morally superior to anyone else.