If a religious teaching denies the self, then it makes people believe that they are passive agents in their life. To deny the self is to deny the active agent in a persons being. In this case, that denial of the self means to claim that the self does not exist. This postulation implies that, like a rock falling down a hill, the person (all but their self which does not exist) is simply a passive thing that reacts to causes. The earth shakes, the rock is dislodged, it rolls down the hill. In no part is this rock taking an active role in what is happening to it. It cannot take an active role since it does not have any active agency over itself since it does not have a self to act as that agent.

If this passive rock rolls down the hill and kills a child, the rock is not morally responsible for the death of the child since it is a passive thing. If a thing does not have active agency over itself, then that thing cannot be morally responsible for any atrocity it causes. So if a person believes that they are not an active agent in their life, they will not believe themselves to be a moral agent either.

Certain religious teachings involve a denial of the self. Of course, I should clarify, since there are two things people mean when they say denial of the self, and I would not like them to get confused here. Firstly, the denial of the passions of the self, or desire. Secondly, to deny that the self exists at all. That the ego itself exists. It is easily brought to mind certain religious teachings that include either form of self-denial. although, as for this argument, I am simply talking about the latter.

If this is all the case, then it follows that there are certain religious faiths that allow for the belief that it is morally neutral for one to commit atrocities. That is to say, if it is morally neutral for a rock to roll down a hill and kill a child since it is a passive agent, then it follows that a teaching that believes people to be passive agents (through the denial of the self) in their lives must also believe that it is morally neutral for them to commit an atrocity such as killing a child.

[Edited to add paragraph breaks (Jamal)]