Ah the good old No True Scotsman arguement. Even if it wasn't a logical fallacy, it doesn't even address the fundamental problem.

No one snowflake is responsible for the avalanche. While technically correct, that doesn't allow me to cope with an avalanche on a snowflake by snowflake basis.

Simply being a member of the church sustains it, and therefore empowers it to harm. That's just a fact, regardless of the rationalization for being a member. As soon as you put a nickel in the collection basket, you're helping to fund it.

Bringing kids to church is abuse

I've met a few decent evangelical christians. A dozen at most, and I spent the first 20 years of my life surrounded by evangelicals. I think they're people that managed to be decent in spite of their faith, not because of it. That's a hard trick to pull off.

The rest are banal, neurotic messes who simultaneously believe their all powerful god controls everything and will return any day now, and also that they have to police the world on his behalf because he's not doing anything, and also that their faith makes them paragons of morality, and also that they're literal worms with no redeeming value. And that's just the congregation. The pastors.... holy shit.

Christian teachings led to this. Not """"fake Christians"""".

This right here is why I'm an antitheist. Bart Ehrman said it well in his book Armageddon: "It matters which Jesus of the Bible you believe in, because that will determine the causes you support."

If Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism were eradicated tomorrow, I would be a tentative antitheist, because I believe based on past precedent that theism causes problems at the confluence of human behavior and religion, and I would expect the same kinds of harm to arise again.

Nice rant.

People are people and religion doesn't change them.

There are good christians and there are bad christians. Just like there are good atheists and there are bad atheists. Just like there are good people from other cultures and bad people from other cultures.

And if that doesn't sound like a complete condemnation of voluntary religious participation, you're not paying attention.