what deluded you into this way of thinking?
the delusion is solely yours.
your standpoint is completely off the mark here. athiests need reminding to be good people just as much as everybody else.
WRONG!,
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just because somebody is an athiest it does not make them a good person,
that statement works if you use non-believer, but falls completely flat, with the use of atheist, you obviously have no idea, what it is to be atheist.
see below.
just because somebody is an atheist it does not mean they have chosen to be good and kind where did you get this from?.
WRONG!,
see below.
if you dont believe in god it doesn't make you automatically good and kind thats insane to believe that,
to become an atheist, takes years of study, years of self doubt, years of questions, then an atheist hits the zenith/enlightenment. which we all do individually.
however apart from, it's not reasonable to have a belief in a god/gods, theres a common realisation, the fact there is no afterlife, this is the only life you get, with that in mind, you become morally better, the golden rule becomes paramount, you cannot and will not harm, or kill.
it becomes ingrained in your psyche.
because you have that inate morality, to kill or harm, is wholly evil, as this is the only life a person gets, it would be wholly wrong to deprive them of that, an atheists morals are his guiding star, not like the religious morals which are only there, and only done to appease there god.
hence why it's the religious that do 99% of the killing.
"good people do good things, bad people do bad things, but for good people to do bad things takes religion."
and the last statement is absurd where on earth did you get the stats for that? i know plenty of atheists who are in prison, i myself was in prison while i was an atheist,
if your not an atheist now, then you were never an atheist, a non-believer perhaps.
you will find that here in england there are thousands and thousands of atheists and thousands are also in jail,
yes there is thousands of non-believers in jail here in england, but the murderers all have some kind of religious connection or are complete lunatics.
http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm
as you know we are born technically atheist, a non-believer, however after being indoctrinated as a child into religion.
to become the atheist takes a lot of years of studying, it's a disgarding of all the beliefs your taught, a shedding of the religious skin so to speak. a skin that once shed is to small a size ever to wear again.
so although called an atheist, it doesn't have only one meaning, it's akin to being a laymen as opposed to the bishop, or the pupil as opposed to the principal, a vast difference. there are a lot of people who are simply non-believers, but unfortunately all are refered to as atheist.
in response to the OP you cannot not hate, that which does not exist, that is completely infantile, to even suggest.
the reasons atheist question religion, is they cannot understand how or why anybody can belief in such fantasies.
when ask by a lady at a fete who said "do you thing the archbishop of canterbury, to be a stupid man" richard dawkins replied " I think him to be a very bright man, I'm just astonished as to why he believes in god."
there is no hate, just astonishment.
