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In reply to the discussion: Chapel hill shooter was a 'militant atheist' who fantasised that religion would 'go away'. [View all]alarimer
(16,426 posts)Doesn't mean this crime has anything to do with atheism. We don't really know why, at this point.
I get why people are doing this. It's the false equivalence angle.
Because Muslims in general are always held to account (in the media, in some minds at least) when some commit terrorist acts, so turnabout must be fair play?
Some deranged gun nut (and I think this angle is WAY more important than the atheism angle anyway) does this and all of a sudden, all atheists are suspect. Well, we always were. In that we have things in common with minority religions.
How about we not judge all adherents of a creed/lack of creed based on the actions of one or a few? I know that is what you are arguing in the last paragraph.
I do believe personally that religion is a force for evil, not good and the world would be better off without it. I don't believe in achieving that goal by shooting people, if that's in fact what he was going for here.