>An aetheist is dangerous at best because he has his own standards.
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>Yes, that's just horribly dangerous that we all might have our own standards and independent thought.
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>Atheism (per se) is only dangerous to religion because it expects religion to submit to the same reality check that you'd expect out of anything else.
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>That is precisely why religion is dangerous and not the other way around - religion doesn't have to pony up with any substantiation or validation. It's all circular logic that always points right back to God as the primacy of existence.
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>Religion is no different than any other historical doctrine that attacked reason and logic, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority. Religion preys on vulnerability, and makes people even more vulnerable to manipulation. I can think of few things more dangerous.
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>Of course, people who advocate religion will respond with, "since atheists don't believe in God, what's to stop them from killing or doing other horrible deeds, since they don't believe in morality". The question falsely assumes that atheists don't respect life. And ironically, look at the things that have been done "in the name" of religion...
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>- Atheists in the U.S. military have received death threats (google on Jeremy Hall and Pentagon)
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>- Priests molest young boys, tell them it's God's will, get protected by the Catholic Church, and then attempt to hide behind the First Amendment!!! (Don't believe me? Read this: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/09/molestation_covered_by_ministe.php).
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>- Our 41st president (whom many viewed as a God-fearing man) stated that ""No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God".
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>- School boards, to this day, still have to fight to teach that evolution is FACT.
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>- People die of AIDS because (in part) the Catholic Church for years said that using condoms will offend the baby Jesus.
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>- Some parents (who are total nutcases) allow their dying child's last thought to be that it was the child's fault for not receiving a miracle cure because the praying wasn't hard enough. (Don't believe me? Google the story of Gloria Strauss).
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>- Survivors at the Virginia Tech tragedy a few years ago made incredibly insensitive comments during the memorial service, stating "someone's looking out for me", as if to suggest the poor souls who died were ones that God and the angels cared less about.
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>- U.S. public school teachers tell children that the red stripes on Christmas candy canes represent Christ's blood and that children must believe in and be saved by Jesus Christ or risk burning in hell...and if they don't, there's no place for them in the classroom. Likewise, parents mentally abuse children by telling them that sinners and non-believers will burn in hell.
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>- Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on (among other people) those who rejected God, and therefore made God mad.
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>So who's the dangerous ones????

Your samples makes me think about the discussion on the right to own a gun or not. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."