Debate: Atheists, like Hitler, should be separated from the rest of the human race
Side: Absolutely not

I seem emotional? That's a first - most of the people who know me would swear I don't have emotions.You're grasping at straws, this is emotional.Yet that doesn't negate the fact that they did want an atheist state. Christians have fought war in the name of Christianity, just as atheists have fought wars in the name of atheism !Atheism is a negative association. It's the opposite by definition of theism, which makes a positive claim. It cannot be an ideology that motivates anything because it exists as a lack of theist ideology. Therefore any violence associated with atheism must arise from an ideology, like communism, fascism, totalitarianism, etc.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of atheism. One'll make a list of Christians who have started wars - that's perfectly acceptable - yet one is mistaken if he tries to make a similar list of atheists. That's what I'd call double-standard and illogical.Maybe you'll understand your error better if I highlight it with word replacement.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of asantaism.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of amorality.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of atoothfairyism.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of apoliticalism.Yet he is forgetting that, while wars have been fought in the name of religion, other wars have been fought in the name of nothing.You can't fight a war in the name of a lack of something, so what were those wars actually fighting FOR?Communism? Fascism? Maoism?One'll make a list of Christians who have started wars - that's perfectly acceptable - yet one is mistaken if he tries to make a similar list of atheists. That's what I'd call double-standard and illogical.It perplexes me when atheists use this argument, because they are trying to exempt themselves from responsibility, whereas they put all responsibility for Christian wars on the Christians.It would be illogical, correct, if atheism was just another belief system like Jainism, or fascism, or objectivism, or Buddhism. If atheism were a belief system it would be a double standard, correct. However atheism is NOT a belief system. Apart from no belief in god, there are no values that any pair of atheists must share.Why can't a Christian use the argument against an atheist that atheists have been responsible for war, if the atheist is allowed to use it vice versa?"Christians have a theology. In addition to the belief that god exists, they are joined by the belief in Jesus, the trinity, and so on.Atheists lack belief in god. That's all. Just because there is a tendency for atheists in western culture to enjoy science doesn't make it a part of ideology. Have you ever heard of the concept where people, acting alone, reach conclusions that associate them with a group? Atheism works like this, because there is no dogma or central theology, group consensus comes from people acting independently and associating in beliefs and values by coincidence. Authorities may be spread through word of mouth, but it is never dogma.So therefore being an atheist cannot be tied to warmongering. If you want to tie warmongering to something, look for political ideology. Atheism is a red herring that you follow because you automatically assume that because religious people start wars out of a group mindset for their theology, it must follow from symmetry that atheists do the same. Learn to acknowledge this red herring and look for political groupings and motivations, and your arguments will be smarter.