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In reply to the discussion: It would be wrong to expect atheists or antitheists to answer for a murderer who used those labels. [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Christianity, even modern, fairly passive Christianity is built upon the old testament. An old testament that is full of the same god exhorting people to murder.
Atheism has no such foundation.
So they are not equivalent in the context you originally posted.
Christianity is predicated upon murder. One Christian may be non-violent, but believing in the contents of the NT rests upon the foundation of the OT, and doing so lends credence to the other Christians that to this day still visit violence upon others unprovoked. The two sets simply disagree about what the religion has become, today.
Atheism has no such entanglements. Doesn't speak to the issue at all. Other ideologies handle that. For instance; secular humanism.
Atheism itself answers a single question; is there a god? It doesn't speak to things like morality at all, nor does it pretend to.