The ONLY way to be a bad atheist is to believe in a god or gods. They're doing it wrong.
If an individual is an atheist, and they are also: a murderer, a rapist, a bigot, a slave holder, a thief, etc, that does not mean they are a bad atheist, it means they are a bad human being. They're doing the human being thing wrong.
Their atheism is completely unrelated.
If an individual is an atheist, and they are also: a murderer, a rapist, a bigot, a slave holder, a thief, etc, that does not mean they are a bad atheist, it means they are a bad human being. They're doing the human being thing wrong.
Their atheism is completely unrelated.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
