Nice try I have most my family tree back to the 1500s and none of them owned slaves. I feel no guilt over ancestors as I have had no control over them.And my favorite post of the day...Amd my pet peeve with the religious knee jerk response to that comment is that people like hitler were atheist and did thier evil deeds in the name of atheism.Religous believers are generally more racist and oppressive in comparison to atheists, look at places that are more atheist, look at their crime rates, crime is practically non existent there. And considering Christianity is the biggest world religion they are who I have my biggest beef with for ruining the world. The bible even tries to distill fear in people for the idea of a peaceful world, ergo, Christians like war and violence, despite what their mouths say their book says otherwise.
Besides hitler being Christian and being backed by the catholic church it is nonsense to say a non-belief is what motivates people to do things. Like hitler did everything in the non belief on Zeus or the non belief in unicorns (don't have any evidence but I'm pretty sure he was not a brony). Leaders like that create an institution of power that suppress facts and the will and voice of the people for thier own greed.
Additionally it is deeply disturbing that some people find having a far more powerful version of the NSA obsessing over every last detail of their life necessary to be moral. As if god let up for a second they would be murdering and raping with no regard for anything. It's actually far more noble to behave even if you won't be punished. It's also offensive to say that before the bible people didn't know what was right or even that the bar for all morality is the bible because of all the horrible things in there like slave beating.
Again, you even backed me up with this one.
Key word: CATHOLICS
Hitler was catholic, not christians( catholics have persecuted real christians... Thats why some, if not most pilgrims that went to the USA were christians, looking for a place where there isnt class, social, and religious oppression... Seems like atheists want religious oppression, since they hate christians so much. Sounds like end times eh?)
And slave beating.... Dont you remember your ancestors ?
European people were the ones who started taking Africans to Europe, and later on to America to make them their slaves.
They also beated them up, treated them like animals, raped them, used them as fighting dogs in cages.
I've seen many atheists that are racists, and inhuman, so dont try to make us like we are the ones who caused this.
Also, Im pretty sure Abraham Lincon was christian, and was AGAINST racism.
Also my point is the bible is highly highly immoral. No one is going to agree with the slave beating rules, the misogyny, the genocides, baby killing, etc as being moral except brainwashed religious people who say its great but can't actually justify it.
