Here is an answer to an atheist who pushes the Sam Harris line blaming all religious people for the crimes of men like the 9-11 murderers. It centers around the typical practice of atheists, setting up double standards that favor them, absolving them from the kind of vicarious blame that at least half of their slander of religious people is based in.
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Well, atheist guy, Christians who commit crimes that are forbidden by the teachings of Jesus, obviously did them for other than religious reasons. The same thing with Muslims who commit acts forbidden by Islam and Jews who commit acts forbidden by The Law.
I have no problem with saying atheists who don't practice a double standard such as the one you and your fellow neo-atheists set up in their favor, aren't responsible for the massive depravity that every single government in the control of atheists, not all of them Communist, have committed. It is a uniform history of depraved dictatorship and massive murder starting with the Reign of Terror. It continues through every single government dominated by atheists up to and including the Kim regime in North Korea, today.
By insisting on your double standard that favors atheists you invite anyone you hope to disadvantage by it to hold you responsible for the collective crimes of atheists who, unlike those Christian criminals, were violating no moral doctrine of atheism. Their atheism provided absolutely no inhibition from doing what they did, not even that which so frequently fails - but sometimes succeeds which is the central feature of Christian morality. Atheists who act in accordance with those are upholding values taught by Jesus, not anything found in atheism. Ironically enough.
If you want to call attention to the deficiencies of atheism, I'm powerless to stop you doing so. Really, feel free to do so.
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