(June 20, 2015 at 9:27 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:Lets not pull the "true Scottsman" fallacy as atheists ourselves. All the word means is "off" or "empty" on god claims.(June 19, 2015 at 5:47 pm)Kitan Wrote: For those wondering I made the above statement, it is logically simple really.For a thinking, reasoning, response-able, otherwise intelligent being to put himself on the same level with mindless nature and disease is devolution, not evolution.
For the same reason that the forces of nature, including diseases, cull our overpopulated earth, an act I view more as good than bad, the same can be stated for those people who murder. They are being driven by their nature to kill, and I merely view it as a natural means of further lowering the population of the earth.
Your avatar alone suggests that you are not an atheist. If you’ve mistaken atheism for satanism, you’ve come to the wrong place. Yes, you can speak your depraved mind, but we’re not going to let you pretend to be one of us.
Now if you want to argue that they have bad logic that leads them to make the claims they do, that is a different story.
The only thing atheists have in common is "off" on god claims. But there are atheists who call themselves Satanists, just like there are secular Jews who don't believe in a god. I find the claim of being a Satanist absurd because the word is stemming from a mythological character stemming from religion anyway.
But I do agree, saying "I am an atheist" in no way is a licence to be lawless or e rebel or harm others. But not even the word "atheist" automatically makes one moral. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution and not a patent invented by one label.