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In reply to the discussion: Chapel hill shooter was a 'militant atheist' who fantasised that religion would 'go away'. [View all]Pacifist Patriot
(24,785 posts)"atheists accept secular humanism as a moral code for living."
Nope, can't make a generalization like that. Could be true for many, but there's no codification or creedal requirement for atheism so that pretty much blows that claim out of the water.
"There is no dogma, rules or commandments telling Christians to kill people."
Ever? Then explain the Crusades, lynching, etc. Christian history is loaded with dogma commanding them to kill. Unfortunately, too many church leaders took these words from Jesus to heart instead of his others, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
Your pastor may not be telling you to kill people and your hyperbole of "Christianity is held to be responsible for every evil since the fall of Rome as a DIRECT RESULT of Jesus's teaching," aside, you cannot ignore the atrocities that have been committed over the years in Jesus' name. That's just intellectually dishonest.