HITNRUNXX wrote:
Wreckognize wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
and in that regard, rabid atheists are as terrible as rabid catholics/muslims/pastafarians.
Fuck everything about this mentality. Rabid Christians/Muslims commit suicide bombings and kill abortion doctors. Rabid atheists campaign to have banners removed and act like smug assholes on the internet.
Those are extremists... By that mentality you could say there have been atheist serial killers that killed people because they didn't think there was a point to life.
People do fucked up things, you can't hold entire groups accountable for the actions of a few, unless the entire group is dedicated to those actions...
Catholics and Protestants in Ireland don't equate to Catholics and Protestants everywhere in the world.
I think the point he is making is that there have been and will continue to be countless times that people do fucked up shit in the name of religion, whereas no one does fucked up stuff in the name of atheism, that just doesn't make sense. Atheism doesn't have strange interpretations from fringe groups or cults. To be fair of course people that do fucked up shit aren't right in the head and within a religious group as a whole (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinud etc), but also tend to use religion as an excuse or motivator.
Serial killers can be of any stripe of religion or be atheist, because psychopathy is an extremely rare mental condition.
Also, I lol'd
Last edited by Jaekus (2012-02-01 12:49:49)