How do you account for the vicious racism and slavery, both justified through Christianity, that are unacceptable today?
Why do so many priests molest kids?
Why do so many Muslims, in the name of their god, murder the innocent?
Why do so man Muslims, in the name of their god, cut off little girls' clits and sew their vaginas shut?
Come on, my friend, please. Do you want to have a serious discussion? Are we talking Muslims? Do I even have to comment on this? Muslims?
Slavery existed EVERYWHERE throughout history. What distinguished Western society, the United Sates, is that we fought a war to end it. The Quakers, Christians, played a huge role in the anti-slavery movement.
And the percentage Priest molesting children is not any higher, and in fact lower, then the general population of males except that it gets reported more.
Do I have to make a list of evil done by secularist and got tit for tat? Heard of Communism? Nazism? Fascism? I got you on dead bodies by far.
Friend, I already made it abundantly clear that I know there are many good and decent atheist and many rotten theist. The point I was trying to make was that if you believe you have to answer to somebody. That you will be held accountable for your behavior. This will have an impact on how you behave. Not 100% of the time and not 100% for everybody. Nothing is 100%. Just like having strict supervision from a parent isn't going to guarantee good behavior from your children it's just going to make it more likely. I know for myself that I have been kept on the straight and narrow many times because I believe that one day I will have to account for myself. All the things that I think are so important and so want in life: wealth, fame, popularity, respect, happiness, accomplishment... will matter very little when I stand before God. He isn't going to ask how big my house was, what kind of car did I drive, was my girl friend hot, how big my muscles were, how much money did I have, was I popular and did people like me.... none of that will matter. It keeps things in perspective for me.
Remember that scene in The Green Mile where Tom Hanks may have to execute a man he believes is innocent? He has to do it, right? It's his job. So when he stands before God and is asked why he killed an innocent man what is Hank's character going to say? "It was my job?"
Here it is. It's just the first 20 seconds of the clip. You can always justify any type of behavior when you just have to answer to yourself. "It was my job"