What you're trying to do is to draw equal mark between the Christianity as whole (with its ~2000 years history) and relatively short period of history when Catholic church was doing some ugly things (ignoring all the good ones).
Should I do the same and equate entire atheism with Bolshevik/communistic regimes (with atheism as mandatory doctrine) which are responsible for greatest number of deaths (adjusted for equal periods) than any other group in the history of mankind?
Should I do the same and equate entire atheism with Bolshevik/communistic regimes (with atheism as mandatory doctrine) which are responsible for greatest number of deaths (adjusted for equal periods) than any other group in the history of mankind?
Do you really want to compare the 2000 year history of christianity murdering half the world with the 1,000,000 year history of atheists making advances in science, medicine, philosophy, morality, etc, etc, etc?!? Religion simply cannot compare to the contributions of science and medicine... which are not religion... science and medicine are definitely anti-religious... atheist stuff... you wouldn't understand...
Morality and knowledge of what is right and wrong is not something you're born with. Can you not see the differences between Christian countries and i.e. Muslim countries? Which of the latter would allow you to abandon islam and openly promote atheism? Which of the existing religions is the closest to the western standards?
I'm sorry you don't understand history... or much of anything...
The only reason christianity is civil today is because of atheist influences... without atheists, slavery would still be legal!... Homosexuals would be murdered openly, and it would be legal to do so! It would also be legal to murder atheists! (The bible commands you to do all these things in the same book where the 10-commandments are written)
The Dark ages had a single cause... Christianity... Christians attacked anything that was non-christian for 300 years! Don't pretend it didn't happen!
This was also not an isolated event, simply a peak in christian murdering... Do not infer that because the dark ages lasted 300 years, that the other 1700 years of christianity were peace and love... the Salem Witch Trials were in the 17th century... plenty of christian murder and pillaging throughout the entire 2000 year history... Nearly identical to Islam... no difference at all (not surprising since Muslims stole the Christian bible exactly like Christians stole the Hebrew bible... the two religions are nearly identical in every way)
Feel free to name few 'atheist' values, meaning currently accepted ones that were common among all the parts of the world. Don't kill/steal are not one of them. Pro-tip: you can't.
Atheists invented morals and values... don't be silly...
You already admitted that christians did not invent "christian values"... it's only a small step to realizing that they came from either another religion, or non-religion (all religions came from non-religion, so obviously, atheists invented morals)
You are correct in that atheists don't have a written moral code, like the 10 commandments, but you are incorrect that we don't have values... Atheists are the only ones who took the time to think about morals on their own... we decided right from wrong based on the impact on society, not from some dusty old book...
Atheists believe in facts and evidence over feelings... just because a story "feels good", does not make it true... you need facts and evidence... that is what atheists believe in... reality... facts... evidence... not unsupported fairy tales
If some "God" told me to murder my child... I'd tell that asshole to FUCK OFF!... What would you do? Murder your son?