@LenHazell53 I thought you were implying that religious people have no moral compass and tend to beat people with crowbars, I feel that’s an unfair generalization, and I gave an example of an avowed atheist with no moral compass who was a mass murderer.

To make any kind of correlation you need a larger database.

@WilliamFleming I see, no I was pointing out with satire the falsity of the religious cliche that only religious people (of whatever faction) have a moral compass, and that without god no one can be morality.
This case illustrates there is no truth in such contention of moral absolutes and that the morality gained from religion is completely subjective when the mere mention of a "confession" of atheism can drive a theist to feel it moral to attempt to kill an infidel with a crowbar.

@LenHazell53 I absolutely agree that it is incorrect to claim that atheists lack morals, and there are studies to back up that opinion. There are also studies showing that those who attend church weekly have a lower crime rate than those who never attend, and I believe those studies. What’s to be made of this seeming contradiction?

It’s just my opinion, but I believe that those who call themselves atheists are a small and specialized subset of all non-religious people. Atheists in general are well educated, and they have shown intelligence and courage in charting their own courses. They tend to be moral for the right reasons, not because of fear or wanting to be a good person. I am not an atheist but I have a lot of respect for atheists.

On the other end of the spectrum are a bunch of characters who have no interest in religion and probably don’t know the word “atheist” who are constantly causing trouble and doing crimes.

There’s not much difference between me and an atheist. What really gets my goat though is when someone points to the high murder rate in my state of Alabama and noting snidely that Alabama is in the “Bible Belt”, they claim that religion causes people to commit murder. The ones doing murder are generally not religious, and religious practices in the so-called Bible Belt are only a few percent more prevalent than the rest of the country.

I feel better—thanks for listening.