Atheists turning to cult behaviour?

[robvalue]

Er.... erm.... uhm...

My mind is just spinning round on the spot

Sure, humanism is incredibly important and should be combined with everyone. That includes atheists. I understand what you're saying, but I see no practical way of encouraging atheists specifically to be humanists in a way that is more productive than just encouraging everyone to be. Is your point that religion makes it harder to encourage humanism? I think that it certainly does, because they have self-imposed barriers, and divinely inspired prejudices messing everything up.

How can you speak out against atheist behaviour? I speak out against any bad behaviour. Pointing out that the person is an atheist is like pointing out they like toast. Their idea of atheism and their own extensions of it may be causing problems, in which case you can point out what these problems are and why they shouldn't be making atheism into something bad.

Once again, I agree with the sentiment, but I have no idea how it could be practically put into action. It's simple to blame stuff on religion, and credible, because they do actively worship a book that condones that bad stuff. They refuse to alter the book, or get a new book. They validate that bad stuff.

But atheism is just... nothing. It's a blank canvas. One atheist's canvas is nothing like, or in any way guided or restricted by, any general template. So how you point out that a crime is "non-religiously motivated" is what I'm having trouble with.