Ask any psychologist about the sociopathic personality and they will sum it up that the sociopath believes that everyone else shares their complete lack of empathy for others only for “good public face” they pretend to care. A sociopathic murderer will smirk and think to themselves “Good grief” when he sees the mother of the teenage girl he raped and murdered start to cry on the stand at trial.
The atheist is on a par with this, not that all atheists are murderers, but they think in similar manners to the sociopathic murderer.
Funny. Although most of the time I'd call myself a philosophical theist (sometimes wavering toward agnosticism) I'm pretty well convinced that God does not judge humans. Nor do I believe in any sort of an afterlife.
Therefore, since, exactly like an atheist, I "den[y] the judge," I should regularly contemplate murder. But I never have. Not even once. I should be incapable of empathy. But I am. I should hold "honor, and integrity and honesty in contempt." But I find I don't.
What's more, I respect believers, almost universally, making exception only for particularly deviant individuals. I would never even think of declaring them "sociopaths," or of putting forward any remotely comparable smear, as a global assertion.
In fact, it occurs to me that I find the practice of positing such hostile claims about large and broadly inclusive groups of persons, based solely on group membership, to be false, facile and contemptuous.
So what's wrong with me?
Stultis, I never said atheists couldn’t conjure up clever sentences.
I knew a guy who was a proclaimed atheist and he often said that life itself was trivial. But he also once said that if any of his children ever got mad at him and said “I hate you” that he would NEVER forgive them.
This atheist friend of mine has literally turned himself into a god. I pointed this out to him and he refused to ever speak to me again. I guess I offended him by refuting his self-made view of himself as a god. You could call me a “Dan Barker” sort where it concerns his solipsistic god.
As for you and your lack of plans to commit murders, that’s a good thing because a bright guy like you would certainly get away with them. Most murderers are dumb as dirt so I guess the atheists who are also physical murderers are the dumb ones.