Oh, jeez. Now Vox Day is making excuses for rape.

Actually, he's making a very convoluted argument that rape is only evil if the woman is chaste and Christian. Being pagan or Muslim means you don't get to complain about rape, nor can you protest if you have had sex outside of marriage.

To put it more clearly [Vox Day? Clear? Heh.], if a woman consents to extramarital sex, she is committing a moral offense which is equal to that committed by the man who engages in consensual sex with her, or by the man who, in the absence of such consent, rapes her. Christianity knows no hierarchy of sins. Since only the woman who is not entertaining the possibility of sex with a man and is subsequently raped can truly be considered a wholly innocent victim under this ethic, it is no wonder that women who insist that internal consent is the sole determining factor of a woman's victimization find traditional Western morality to be inherently distasteful.

I find Vox Day to be a thoroughly creepy and amoral creature, one I wouldn't trust within a thousand yards of my female relatives. I think he's twisted and insane, and hope he remains a fanatical Christian—the only thing that's keeping him on a leash seems to be his belief in a punitive deity.

He has this bizarre notion that atheists are necessarily amoral themselves, based on fallacious assumptions about how people operate when they aren't under the illusionary thumb of a god:

And while "might makes right" is the true essence of atheist amorality, it is not exactly the most convincing means of attempting to assert the moral evil of the rapist. As for Utilitarians in a demographically declining West, it is quite easy to make numerous cases for the inherent common good of rape on societal and social Darwinist grounds that are more powerful than the comparatively nebulous cases to the contrary.

This is so wrong. Most atheists don't base their morality on "might makes right"; it's based on the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…an idea that's older than Christianity. I do not rape because I would not want to be raped, and I have empathy for other human beings.

Empathy is a very human thing, and if I had to, I could even rationalize it biologically as an extremely useful capacity for individuals living in social groups. I don't have any problem justifying morality on utilitarian grounds, either.

I'm also beginning to see one virtue to religion: as a shackle for psychopaths.