Where are the good Christians?

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12. That's anecdotal and those "Christians" only represent themselves and their supporters

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- no collective guilt

"Christian" is a name that many people who are inclined to believe in invisible superheroes and other religious trappings give themselves. It has limited meaning (though it does lead some to support many of the evils of the bible when convenient). One person's Christianity is very different than another's Christianity.

Many of the most prominent atheists are some of the most virulent anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigots you'll find. Here's Hitchens, as told by PZ Myers, at a Freedom from Religion convention:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/10/14/ffrf-recap/

Then it was Hitchens at his most bellicose. He told us what the most serious threat to the West was (and you know this line already): it was Islam. Then he accused the audience of being soft on Islam, of being the kind of vague atheists who refuse to see the threat for what it was, a clash of civilizations, and of being too weak to do what was necessary, which was to spill blood to defeat the enemy. Along the way he told us who his choice for president was right now — Rudy Giuliani — and that Obama was a fool, Clinton was a pandering closet fundamentalist, and that he was less than thrilled about all the support among the FFRF for the Democratic party. We cannot afford to allow the Iranian theocracy to arm itself with nuclear weapons (something I entirely sympathize with), and that the only solution is to go in there with bombs and marines and blow it all up. The way to win the war is to kill so many Moslems that they begin to question whether they can bear the mounting casualties...

...He was asked to consider the possibility that bombing and killing was only going to accomplish an increase in the number of people opposing us. Hitchens accused the questioner of being incredibly stupid (the question was not well-phrased, I’ll agree, but it was clear what he meant), and said that it was obvious that every Moslem you kill means there is one less Moslem to fight you

Fortunately the audience was hostile to Hitchens, but many atheists still love him

Harris, Maher, and Pat Condell (the most popular YouTube atheist) are also extreme bigots, and they're very open about it. Harris, in a less bellicose manner, has also supported genocide against Muslims. Maher (agnostic) has said that the only way to deal with Muslims is through violence. There is a big problem with extreme bigotry among prominent atheists.

I'm an atheist and none of these atheists reflects negatively on me, but only on those atheists that continue to promote them.