At 8/6/09 02:40 AM, PhobOuranos wrote:
There are a lot of mean Religious people, but they have more reason than Atheists to be nice.
Not necessarily. It could be argued that they have more reason than Atheists to be mean as well. 72 virgins, and so on.
I was showing him that all Atheists are not nice,
Which is completely untrue because many Atheists are nice.
he was trying to suggest that all Religious people are evil.
His post was equally as vague as the one you made regarding Stalin and Mao; both were just lists of evil people. His post was no more suggestive than yours was.
Atheism in the last century: 250 million deaths.
Unless those deaths were actually carried out in the name of Atheism, then Atheism isn't to blame. Stalin was Atheist, for example, but he had people killed because of his political views and the fact that he was just an evil backstabber to begin with.