Yeah but I've yet to read about 300+ kids getting molested at a Richard Dawkins book signing.

Maybe the higher moral ground is down to the holy folks' hypocrisy.

@TheDarkNolanite
Have you yet read about the hundred million or so who were murdered by atheist regimes in the twentieth century?

@skado Communist regimes.

@TheDarkNolanite
Yes. Which enforced state atheism.

@skado There is no dogma in atheism which convinced them to commit atrocities. Blame Marx, Lennon and Stalin, not atheism in general.

@TheDarkNolanite
Is there Christian dogma that requires priests to molest children?

@skado Actually yes. The dogma which states that they can't get their rocks off with women.

@TheDarkNolanite If that was the only issue, they would seek to be with grown women in secret - not children.

@TheDarkNolanite
Well it’s not like the Church doesn’t richly deserve your cynicism. They royally earned it, so I’m not defending the Church. But in literal terms, I doubt there is any actual doctrine that instructs or allows priests to transfer their sexual interests from women to children. That doesn’t ring true to me. There was on the other hand an apparent systemic tolerance that could be seen as de facto policy, so there is that.
My first comment was trying to get at where the comparison should actually fall. If you’re taking as your religious example the actual priesthood of the Catholic Church on the one hand, and your non-religious example the average-citizen atheist on the street, that’s kinda apples and oranges. The average Joe Christian on the street isn’t raping children by the hundreds, so... maybe not a fair comparison. Comparing an ancient religious establishment to a relatively fleeting government isn’t a perfect comparison either, but much closer. Typically in atheist states the murder of religious dissidents by the thousands is official policy, not the actions of a rogue faction, tolerated or otherwise. So I don’t see how the pedo-priest scandal proves anything at all about rank and file atheists.

I never doubted it. But they like to act morally superior for groveling at the feet of a non-existent deity.

@TheDarkNolanite Who cares? They're too ignorant to argue with.