Shouldn't atheists receive longer sentences than do believers for crimes they've committed?

Question

Think about it: When an atheist commits a crime, it was entirely his own doing. But when a believer commits what humans deem to be a 'crime', he may have been acting on what he thought God Himself was telling him to do. So isn't it logical (there's that word again, atheists!) that atheists should be held 100% responsible for their crimes, but believers shouldn't carry all of the blame for some of their actions?

Answer 1

Dear Fugly,

by your logic nothing should happen to us since your god will punish us forever...

yours truly:
someone smarter then you

Answer 2

You're retarded. Christians will read this, commit a crime and say 'hey who cares I'll get off the hook the other believers will help get me out of here'. Everyone is held 100% responsible for there crimes because it was there doing no matter how demented they are thinking god told them to do it. What if an atheist thought a lepricorn was telling him/her to go burn someones house down, they would be held 100% responsible for ther actions. So why wouldn't the people who think "god told them to do it" be held accountable for there actions.
SUCK ON THAT!!!

Answer 3

So, then, going with that logic, Atheists should always claim that Harvey told them to do it?

I believe the concept there is "What they though God wanted them to do". So, in effect, the believer would still be just as responsible for their actions as the Atheist...Just because someone, or an imaginary someone, told you, or you thought they told you, to do an action, doesn't remove the responsibility for that action from you...you still decided whether you should, or shouldn't perform that action.

So, the decision of a court would be prison for someone who decided on their own, and a mental hospital, with prison in their future, for the believer. Unless you mean that god told them metaphorically (as in, inspired by scripture), then they get prison off the bat too.

Answer 4

the reason if so is that that's 10-15 years in accordance to sufferer, which occurs to characteristic as a lot as 345 years. notwithstanding, the further effective reason is that prisoners are frequently released previously they have served their complete sentence. by ability of sentencing someone to over three hundred years, the decide guarantees that, no matter if the state makes a decision to launch all prisoners which have served over a million/4 of their sentence, this human being nevertheless should not be released.

Answer 5

Are you saying that atheists don't receive longer sentences than "believers" do?

That is absurd.

I have witnessed Christians covering up evidence of child molestation, refusing to testify about it, publicly denouncing the victims, and justifying it all with quotes from the Bible and the fact that the criminal was a Christian. Even the locally elected Christian prosecuting attorney was in on it. He "plea bargained" away multiple counts of forcible rape of a minor (after stating that it was essentially a guaranteed conviction if it went to trial) and replaced it with one count of groping a minor's breasts against her will. Why would he do this? He claimed the criminal was a good Christian (they went to the same church) and that he shouldn't go to jail.

Apparently, holding a minor at knife point, stripping her clothes off, preparing to rape her (before a car pulls up nearby and causes him to stop), and then threatening to kill her family if she tells them about it is all perfectly legal when it is done by a Christian. Even the state attorney general's office admitted to me that there is nothing that can be done about it when the local Christians elect other Christians who refuse to prosecute Christians. The law just looks the other way.

The fact that Christians use Bible quotes to justify this type of evil is inexcusable and exemplifies everything I hate about religion.

Answer 6

This is a stupid question. Someone should be punished for not believing that god exsist? What makes you so right? People should be ostrasized for not being a christian. If god was real, why would he be telling someone to commit a crime? Get a life.

Oh yeah, a lot of hate groups are christian.

Answer 7

What planet are you living on lady??? I am serious?? Are you behind bars? I mean what kind of logic are you showing? You hide behind the fake mask of Christianity and are acting like a devil! You should be ashamed! Almost every question or answer I have ever read of yours has just been full of hate and judgment!! Pray and ask the Lord to reveal to you your true heart and realize that you are hurting others!

Answer 8

You are astoundingly ignorant. But I guess your god has already told you that.

Like the other answerer said, why don't you leave R&S? You're just making an @ss of yourself, you know. So quit embarrassing yourself and crawl back under your bridge.

btw, I'm not atheist, I just have a low tolerance for stupid people like you.

Answer 9

wait a minute it is called a free will and the excecise of it. The Bible says to follow the law of the land so no and on top of it the Bible says that any sin you commit is not agains man but against God so who should get the greater punishment

Answer 10

Most Judges respect honesty and usually give the Atheists a break because of it. But like you said, believers want to blame their shortcomings on others. Hate to disappoint ya.

Answer 11

Nope. Heaven is a Christian's reward, and they can't get there alive. They should be put to death as a reward for being good.

Also, since your Devil "has hold of us", we should be held entirely blameless for our actions in your eyes. Maybe you should be punished for failing to convert us before we committed a crime.