Is saying "I'm an atheist" a way of exonerating yourself from the atrocities committed?

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't do at all. That's a religious thing I guess.

Added: Oh the details. Well...the problem is you are perpetuating the thinking that leads to things like the Crusades. I mean you aren't responsible for the past ones, but you could well have a hand in the next.

I am Jewish and have German friends. Only fools believe the sins of the fathers are passed on to the children.

One should judge the actions of people in history by their own cultural and moral positions - at the same time you can say that a person was excesively cruel - Richard Heydrich for example.

I am an atheist AND I do not need exoneration for crime I did not commit.

I don't blame Christians for what their ancestors did. There's a whole range of political, economic and social reasons for the crusades that don't apply to this day and age

Not real sure what my ancestors believed - I don't even know what my parents believe.

When I tell someone I'm an atheist, it's to set me apart from the believers in the tyrannical Abrahamic God.

RScott

The real question is, why would you hold someone accountable for ancestral crimes in the first place? That's one of the main beefs I have with Christianity's punishment of the entirety of humanity just because Adam and Eve supposedly ****** up.

So no, I don't claim atheism as some way to distance myself from ancestral religious-associated crimes.

Now one should be responsible for what their parents did in Gods law. So you grew up fighting wow i kind of look up to a fighter cool, wow!

Don't judge a group because a few people from said group are dicks thats meant to every one

The atrocities committed by my ancestors were not committed by me. I don't need exonerating!

Anything done by ancestors hasn't the slightest to do with me!

There is no need to exonorate yourself from something you did not do. Kind of the foundation of the whole idea of justice.