Why do some atheists "blame it on religion"?

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So many atheists I know and know of just love being obnoxious and pissing off theists for the sake of it, and that is what is irritating.
We won't "win", so don't initiate arguments and make a complete fool out of yourself.
Religion exists, and it will throughout our lifetimes. To those who have a problem: Grow some balls and get the f**k over it.

Too late. I grew my balls and am helping religion get over itself from the inside, by pointing out things that the leaders of my church would rather not have pointed out. Already our regular attendance is down 19% over the last five years.

MUHUWAHAHAHAHA!! !

"Some", Fnord. "Some."

Last edited by jmnixon95 on 22 Aug 2011, 10:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

But seriously, good for you. (I'm not being sarcastic; it's hard to use that phrase at all without people thinking you're being sarcastic.)

First, the Episco-Metho-Presby Triad; next, ZE VORLDT!! !

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You do know that the vast majority of these early scientists you're referring to were Christians, right?


Where would we be now if the last ice age had ended 2000 years early?

Like Galileo Gallilei? Had he not rejected - at least in part - oppressive Christian doctrine, the geocentric model would have held on even longer.

You are comparing the occurrence of a natural event to the foolishness of humankind.

Galileo's observation that God didn't give us a mind to let it rot was correct. Whether the pope at the time realized this or not is irrelevant. And the 'in part' thing is quite correct. Galileo didn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Any extremely large organization with willing followers who don't think about the implications of their actions, with control freaks for leaders, are evil.
Now as a thought experiment, name one large organization that doesn't fit this characterization. There isn't one. They're all evil.

Alternatively, every large organization serves a positive purpose, from religion satisfying peoples need for something to worship (which is proven to exist FYI), to wal-mart satisfying peoples need for extremely cheap goods, to government satisfying peoples need to be protected and ruled, to science satisfying peoples need to know more and have more kids and live in luxury and be entertained.

There does exist a large organization, specifically a religion.....that has people who think about the consequences of their actions. In fact, we are told in our standards book that every action has a consequence and thus to think about our actions. What is the specification for a control-freak? Because as long as they give people the choice to pick their actions....then it isn't. even if there are a lot of rules.

This argument does not stand when peoples' beliefs are manipulated enough to make them think that an evil act has a justification, particularly if it is in the name of a god.

In reference to the organization I was specifically talking about, they do not do that.

Are you sure? Isn't that what they would all say? I'm not having a go at any one organisation in particular. No doubt most, if not all, religious organisations will start off with good intentions. Where there are group leaders or committees with vested interests, there is potential to mis-use the powers invested in them. There is plenty of history of violence committed in the name of peace loving religions by people that were misled to think they were doing right. People with strong religious beliefs may be easy targets.

Religion isn't to blame. It's the people using it to justify hatred and twisting the fundamental values and messages of <insert religion here> that are to blame.