So do those ethics include the molestation of children by religious leaders in the community and the cover ups by even higher ranking religious figures?
So you're pointing to a few bad apples and concluding that the whole of religious people do just that? Figures....I always hear that example when this discussion comes up. Try finding a fresh one.
Religious people who protest abortion clinics who take things a little to far by planting bombs to blow up the people performing the abortions?
And the abortion doctors aren't going too far by killing millions of innocent babies just because the mother may have a head-ache that day? Gimme a break...
and one more word.... the Crusades.
Oh yeah....the Crusades, another bogus "child molestation"-esk example. Let's see, if you want the truth of the matter...
The Jewish people had that land WAY before there was even a religion called Islam. And so when the Muslims took over the "Holy Land", would you expect "The Chosen" to just take it lying down and rolling over? But of course, you would...that's called appeasement. You see, that's proving my point to some extent. Knowing what's right and wrong allows one to make decisions of such great importance. Not having a clear sense of right and wrong, like in the sense of Hitler's rise to power and his clandesden take-over of all of Europe, while the Chamberlains of England and France believed that we could have "peace in our time" were made to look like fools, because they couldn't see anything wrong with Hitler and what he was planning on doing.
Please give some examples of how Atheists lead unethical lives. I would like to compare them to the lives of Catholics and other Christian based religions.
How about hating everything somebody else does when it's better than what they themselves can do? In other words, the ultimate cynic.
And as a Catholic myself, I'd be interested to hear what examples you have? Other than the afore-mentioned priest crisis and the Crusades.
And it's amazing that atheists love to attack Christians and all what they do, but they'll give a pass to, or just look the other way when Muslims do much, much worse.
I think what's turned the atheist "community" against religion and Christianity specifically, is 9/11. They saw what radical Islamist were capable and willing to do, so therefore atheists think and/or believe that Christians are just as bad, if not worse. Yet, find me a Christian that has strapped a bomb to themselves and blown up innocent people for political gains. And no, the Irish-England conflict doesn't count.
But let me just say this, yes, Christianity went through its "Dark Ages" during the Crusades and Inquisition, but now, the Muslims are going through their's, and who do the atheists blame? The Christians, for fighting back in the attempt to save Western Civilization.
...I think Religion and God are the biggest Lies in history - brainwashing!, millions of innocent people have been killed. But believing in something could lead to something good too...I dont judge people by their religion)
