"but an Atheist can only give an answer such as:"In a world where there is no God what do you expect?", "That is just the way it is", "Too bad", "That's just your bad luck" or "That's your problem". ..." Andrew Shithead
No, those are YOUR words, not those of "atheists". You're putting words into your "strawman's" mouth, and then attacking it - er, 'him'...
And religion CANNOT duck responsibility for all the evils committed in the NAME OF THEIR GODS... Much as they might try.
You yammer about the tortures committed by atheist communists, but those people were NOT committing those tortures BECAUSE they were atheists... They were doing so, because they were attached to a PARTICULAR political movement which accepted the use of BRUTAL means to achieve their goals, if necessary... Exactly like religion does when it makes "converts" by force.
One DOES NOT SEE secular/atheist governments such as Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Japan, and others, using brutal tactics.
On the other hand, Russia has used brutal tactics in the past, during highly religious monarchies and Christian governments. When Russia became "atheist communist", the abuses continued, and even now, as Russia converts back to a highly religious state, the abuses CONTINUE...
It all depends on what a group of people is willing to do, in order to achieve the "group" goal.
Whether theist or atheist, the presence of or lack of abuses/brutality depends on whether the group's leaders feel bound by laws, or "above" the law - whether communist atheist no longer bound by what they PERCEIVE as the edicts of a Bronze-Age Middle-Eastern male "god", or theists no longer bound by "HUMAN" laws because they BELIEVE that they are ABOVE such laws by their acceptance of a Bronze-Age Middle-Eastern male "god"...
