Top-Royal6249 t1_iujo2c5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:55 PM

Reply to comment by Greatest_of_Jimmies in What is morality in the absence of religion? by mambosun_

> The idea that atheists are somehow less moral than believers is incorrect and downright stupid. There is absolutely no data to support the idea that atheists as a group are any less moral than any other randomly chosen group of people.

inb4 somebody points out the actions of atheist dictators, fallaciously focusing on body counts by a small handful of atheists rather than the actions of each individual atheist on Earth on average.

Greatest_of_Jimmies t1_iujppg9 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:07 PM

In any case, these dictators were not motivated in any way by their atheism. Their atheism didn't enter into the equation and as you pointed out, they represent a tiny fraction of atheists worldwide.

And it could be pointed out that there has been lots of evil done in the name of religion, such as the Albigensian Massacre which was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III against the Cathars in France. And Hitler was a Xian; the German Werhmacht (Nazi military) wore belt buckles reading “Gott mit uns” meaning God is with us on their belt buckles.