A Lesson that Christians, Muslims, and Atheists need to learn.

postguy2 · 3 months

False equivocation. Religion typically has a set of commands, that many people believe in, that influences their behavior (bad things such as anti-gay, women subservience, even martyrdom). Atheism has no commands. It is impossible to do anything with atheism as a motivation.

You might as well say Stalin was evil because he didn't believe in leprechauns, or always wore that hat.

SimilarImage · 3 months

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Alchoholocaustic · 3 months

I've never met an evil buddhist.

dgillz · 3 months

Malcolm X was a good person?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#The_Hate_That_Hate_Produced

I_liek_graypez · 3 months

Yes, but the difference between Stalin and the "bad religious people", is that Stalin wasn't evil in the name of atheism. He was just a fucked up guy. Bin Laden and Hitler were very open about mass murder and other stuff like that because they felt like it was their duty given by God to do so.

fsckit · 3 months

Its not the religion, its the reason for the evilness. Stalin was evil because he was a paranoid control freak. Bill Gates isn't good because he's an atheist, its because he has a conscience and his government are too evil to do take on their responsibilities.

superfes · 3 months

Atheists don't need to learn this, we're completely aware that people are dicks on this planet.

me_ta_lu_na · 3 months

Wait... Hitler was a Christian??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler

Saenii · 3 months

Yes, but Osama and Hitler's crimes both relate directly to religion, whilst Dr. King's achievements don't. Also, Stalin's crimes did not stem from religion, as did Osama and Hitler's. There is a difference between having a faith and doing something, and doing something out of faith.

MammothSpider · 3 months

Completely agree. Most people seem to condemn any group that has opposing views, then use the "bad" people of that group as examples.

Gh0sts44 · 3 months

Why point at Hitlers moustache? That man had wonderful taste in facial hair. Shame I can't have it without getting looks.

glNito · 3 months

It's different in the sense that the religions tell you who to hate, just because someone considers themself to follow a religion, cherry-picking what they like from it does not mean they're a devout follower of that religion.

[deleted] · 3 months

Communism was something similar to religion: it had it's own ideology and the leader of the country was it's god, also persecution against others religions.

Mileskitsune · 3 months

wasn't malcolm an extremist? or is that the school system shoving more lies?

augustbandit · 3 months

I am not sure I would have picked Malcom X as the "good" example. I mean, he did pretty consistently advocate for explicit violence..

Ruoh · 3 months

You don't know what "correlate" means.

Just_Brad · 3 months

I can't upvote this more than once. I would if I could.

8284jn · 3 months

There does however, appear to be a direct correlation between facial hair and ethics.

TehNozgoth · 3 months

fuck you, OP. malcom X was an evil piece of shit. read a fucking book.

toferdelachris · 3 months

could have chosen someone a little unequivocally better for representing Islam... Malcolm X was the opposite of a rock band: everyone liked his later stuff better

Paradoxius · 3 months

The moral here is that non-Americans are evil and Americans are good.

AP9000 · 3 months

Anybody else think he was gonna try to equate facial hair with goodness?

slacking101 · 3 months

bill gates donates more than 90& of his money to charity and all he gets is ethical?

MackieDrew · 3 months

No... actually it does CORRELATE with ethics. Check out prison population.

ReasonOVERFaith · 3 months

I think you may be missing the point with what atheists are trying to make. Those who follow a religion are more likely to commit terrible acts, like war, genocide, limiting civil rights, etc. All because they believe something written in a book thousands of years ago, they commit these acts based on their beliefs. Atheists on the other hand cannot commit similar acts based on their beliefs. Unless they are killing in the name of science or if they ever just wanna wipe out religion but how many times has that happened? There are far more, farrr more documented cases of religion causes evil, wars, etc then there is of non-believers.

The_A_Drain · 3 months

This shit comes up all the time and I'm sick of debating it so I'm gonna load the default response of "Fuck You."

There are good and bad everything, sane and insane everything, but brainwashing children into believing in any flavor of sky-fairy is straight up child abuse.

LowSlimBoot · 3 months

This would be perfect if it didn't say "get over it" at the end. I can't think of a less mature thing to say in that context.

Kaminaaaaa · 3 months

Deserves front page. Too much religion bashing on here now.


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