No Dear An answer given to a Salon atheist

If atheists want to make Christians responsible for the crimes of people who claim to be Christians but whose actions contradicted the teachings of Jesus then they have to be responsible for the crimes of atheists which don't contradict any defining teachings of atheism. You don't get to have two sets of rules set up to favor atheists.

Atheists getting to have it both ways is over.  No more double standards set up by you in your favor. 

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No one with any sense of integrity would have any problem with the idea that if you claim to be a Christian and do what Jesus forbade then you are, at the very least, not very good at being a Christian.   Christians who kill, enslave and oppress people are guilty of breaking several of the most obvious of those teachings, doing to others as they would certainly not have done unto them, for a start.  Hating their enemies and killing them instead of loving and praying for them, not turning the other cheek, trying to live by the sword.  Not paying workers their wage.  

Atheism, since even you admit atheism has no commandments against killing, enslaving and oppressing people,  doesn't carry that disqualification that Christianity does.  An atheist can do all of those things and be in violation of no defining moral stand of atheism.   An atheist who kills, enslaves, oppresses... can still be a perfectly "good" atheist.   A "Christian" who does, can't be a perfectly "good Christian". 

Furthermore, while they are obviously being really unsuccessful at following the teachings of Jesus, "Christians" who kill, enslave and oppress are being totally successful at following the non-existent moral standards of atheism.   

So, atheists have no basis from which to criticize Christians who do succeed in not killing, enslaving and oppressing since "Christians" who do those awful things are living up to the tacit moral standards that are contained in atheism, the atheists' own ideology. 

I suspect that might be more thinking about such things than you're used to but that's not my fault.