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First search hit (there are thousands like this):
Texas pastor says gay people should be ‘shot in the back of the head’ in shocking sermon
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna32748
That is literally not how that works. You said "a lot of atheists" and "most Christians". You're gonna need numbers to back that up, otherwise don't make unfalsifiable claims.
Oh honey! Are you trying to validate your narrative that Christians are nice people?
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Let’s try this, show me articles about atheists committing hate crimes against minorities.
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Is this... is this your idea of a strawman? I didn't say that, but more importantly I don't even care if that's true or not; I simply don't like circlejerking and self-fellating, so if you're going to say "we're better than them y'all!" you better back that up with evidence.
I don’t know how you expect a quantification of this answer.
But examples of atheists committing hate crimes are very far and few between, while Christians, specifically Evangelicals (who are the ones with the tracts) are shockingly common.
I was searching for the story from last week of Christians encouraging hate crimes when I found the one above (from 2022). Here is the one from last week- https://www.advocate.com/news/indiana-church-execution-lgbtq-people
*Also, you can see if the person you are replying to is OP by looking at the username. I know it’s hard, babe. Do your best though!
Exactly, which would make the initial claim unfalsifiable. To put it another way, how would you respond if a Christian made the opposite claim, that Christians are more moral than atheists? If they said that in a Christian community, would that not be a plain circlejerk?
How do you know that? Most hate crime cases make no mention of the religion of the perpetrator. Atheists are probably less likely to commit hate crimes on religious grounds for obvious reasons, but most hate crimes in America aren't religious in nature so again, citation needed.
I would say, find me a single example of atheists committing hate crimes in the name of atheism..? Is not complicated, my love.
Evangelicals are super eager to let you know that they are calling for hate crimes in the name of their religion.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.12942
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2006-4-page-107?lang=en
https://www.oah.org/tah/november-5/evangelicalism-and-politics/
You're moving the goalposts. There is absolutely no reason to dismiss atheist hate crimes done for reasons other than atheism. In the first place atheism is way too nebulous a concept for a hate crime to be done in its name; instead, when atheists commit hate crimes they either do so in the name of ideas either independent of religion or built on rejecting religion. For one example of the latter, China's desire to suppress local religion and culture in the name in the name of national unity is the direct cause of the Uighur genocide. For another example,
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