Christianity...Seems legit

[Major Nikon]

124. Ah yes, the inevitable correlation to evil deeds performed by atheists

Not only is this fully predictable, it has been utterly debunked as a ridiculously false equivalence.

The obvious problem with this reasoning is atheism has no dogma or doctrine or sacred texts to be interpreted or divine ultimate arbitrators of behavior or conveniently unverifiable promises of reward or punishment in the afterlife. As such it is an utterly useless tool to motivate yourself or other people to do anything, which is very much the opposite of organized religion which was specifically designed for that purpose.

Several of the Nazis hanged at Nuremberg invoked god during their last words, fully content in the knowledge they would be rewarded in the afterlife for murdering millions which is fully consistent with a religion that only requires belief for the conveniently unverifiable reward. Religion certainly didn’t hinder their evil and it can be much better argued it aided and abetted their actions. Regardless of what you think of the atheists you are invoking, one thing is for sure is that they had no such comfort in their last moments and atheism had exactly zero to do with it.

The idea that anyone needs religion to keep them on the straight and narrow is ridiculous. Anyone who wishes to do evil can find a way to justify it to themselves or others. If anything, atheism makes it harder by completely removing the idea you are doing things evil or otherwise to appease your invisible sky daddy.

If you honestly believe you need an invisible entity to keep you from doing bad things, you should be seriously asking yourself if you really are a good person. I prefer to think that truly good people whether or not they subscribe to religious beliefs or not would be truly good people with or without it.