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I'm a little bit intrigued by this case as it'll be interesting to see what sort of precedent this sets for crimes like this in the future. I have no idea what this guy's motivations were for killing the three students. Maybe it had to do with their religion. Maybe it didn't. In no way do I condone what he did nor think there is anything even remotely justifiable to do such a thing - EVER. However, I find it interesting because the press is using his rants on Facebook as an insinuation that he did this out of hate.
If I got in an argument tomorrow with some guy over a parking spot and things got ugly (I don't carry a weapon but just hypothetically speaking if I did) and I ended up with the press reading off my City-Data posts, I'm sure they could say "this man was an atheist who hated religious people." The press is horrible about spinning stuff like this out of control. As the press sees it, these were brown people and they wore stuff on their heads - clearly a hate crime. And, oh, this guy said some things about religious people on Facebook. Correlation, causation. Boom. Guilty in the public's opinion.
But, I think there's a difference between someone sitting in his apartment, looking out the window and waiting for those "Muslims" to come home and park in his spot and... A guy whose a known hothead, who runs around the apartment complex screaming at people who park in his spot, and finally snaps one day - just like everyone expected him to.
When I first started reading the story, my first thought was what Christian zealot did this.
When one reads a story, one finds out that the perpetrator did this not because of his Christian beliefs, but because of his atheist belief.
If this shows nothing else but that no matter what ones religious beliefs or non-beliefs are, there are outliers and crazies in all subsets of religious beliefs.
That this still not change the fact that most of these types of tragedies are done by zealots of primarly the Muslim and Christian faith. All it shows is that even atheists, who as a group consider themselves much more tolerant and moral than those that are guided by ancient myths, also have and adherents who killed because of their belief.
Atheists, tolerant? LOL Tolerant of anything Anti Christian maybe.
If they ever gain any real power, then watch out, the country will be hell on Earth, it will be "off with their heads" time for anybody who doesn't think the way they do.
Atheists, tolerant? LOL Tolerant of anything Anti Christian maybe.
If they ever gain any real power, then watch out, the country will be hell on Earth, it will be "off with their heads" time for anybody who doesn't think the way they do.
Atheists, tolerant? LOL Tolerant of anything Anti Christian maybe.
If they ever gain any real power, then watch out, the country will be hell on Earth, it will be "off with their heads" time for anybody who doesn't think the way they do.
Thank you. Using the Principle of projection, that convinces me we are quite right to do what we do as the bods you belong to would certainly do (if they ever got the power and authority) to us what they accuse us of wanting to do to them. It would become Hell on earth for anyone who didn't think as they did.
Muslims wouldn't even have the right to a parking lot.
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Using the Principle of projection, that convinces me we are quite right to do what we do as the bods you belong to would certainly do (if they ever got the power and authority) to us what they accuse us of wanting to do to them. It would become Hell on earth for anyone who didn't think as they did.
