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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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