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I know what they’re up to. Taking a couple hundred orphans or more and raising them with nothing but the basic necessities of life, including no love, care or affection to see how they turn out. That happened in USSR, where they enforced atheism. Anyway, those orphans? About ninety percent or more died. That’s just one of the more interesting cases. The rest turned out terribly, becoming gang lords, murderers and sociopaths. Even though it’s a non-belief, there’s definitely heinous acts committed in the name of atheism.
Seriously though, it’s like you guys think that if a religious person does something bad, that’s a strike against the religion, but if an atheist does something bad, that just means that person was bad. It’s either both give the respective belief a bad name, or neither does. Most Christians at least, would agree that certain acts committed in the name of Christ were evil and therefore not of Christ. If you reserve the right to say atheist murderers and criminals don’t reflect upon your non-belief, the rest of the religions get that too.
You’re an idiot for believing the crap you just spouted, and a liar for repeating it. Either one would have been enough to prove youre an ignorant, bigoted xenophobe.
What about evil acts committed in the name of christ by the same religious hierarchy that decided christian belief in the first place?
The acts mentioned in the comic (and the million others) are explicitly religious. As in it’s not just someone who believes in god doing something. It’s someone who believes in god doing something specifically because they believe god wants them to (and often the worst examples are completely consistent with the god they claim to believe in). By that standard you cannot give one example of “heinous acts committed in the name of atheism”.
In addition to the countless heinous acts committed by religious people in the name of god, many people (both religious and nonreligious) have committed heinous acts for nonreligious reasons such as money and power. But that is a very different concept from committing those acts in the name of atheism.
The fact that they are not committing these acts because of a lack of belief is also suggested by the far higher body count of those with belief, which in itself says nothing about the truth of a belief system, unless like christianity that belief system falsely claims that those who believe in a certain god are more ethical than everyone else.
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A sociologist by the name of Phil Zuckerman did a study on irrelgion and concluded that societal well-being is positively correlated with the absence of religion.
Compared to religious people, “atheists and secular people” are less nationalistic, prejudiced, antisemitic, racist, dogmatic, ethnocentric, close-minded, and authoritarian.
In the US, in states with the highest percentages of atheists, the murder rate is lower than average. In the most religious US states, the murder rate is higher than average.
Have you got a link to the study as being glib I think you can also show a similar correlation between people who eat at expensive restaurants or people who don’t eat peanut butter?