Originally Posted by
Petros Agapetos
How moral are atheists?
There are good people and bad people among atheists as there are good and bad people in all communities.
Christian stereotyping
If there is no god you have no morals.
A man without God is totally depraved.
The quotes above are from a video of 2 Christians, they are likely to impress more gullible believers.
See Christian Bullshit :- Atheists are Satanic.
Unfortunately Christian stereotyping sometimes influences impressionable atheists and they assume that because they are atheists they can’t be moral or can’t be very moral. Youngsters whose characters have not fully developed yet are most vulnerable to negative stereotyping of this type. Liberal Christians rarely do this but Christian fundamentalists stereotype atheists more often. See How stereotyping atheists as immoral can do harm
One particularly nasty technique that Christian evangelists sometimes use is deliberately provoking atheists or perhaps others they want to convert into doing something wrong/many wrong things. Then they say something like, "There! See how bad you are! You need Jesus!" If conversion attempts are successful probably the wrong things the person did/was provoked into doing before conversion will be regularly used to make that person feel guilty and inferior so the leaders of the group can keep the sinner under control.
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