here's a thought.... a general rule kinda thing..
The moment you ramble on about religion, you are no longer atheist.... You're religiously motivated...
A true atheist doesn't give a fuck at all. He/she totally ignores the subject.
There is no difference whether someone rambles on with the motif of believe or disbelief..
Both just come from a different angle. The result is however exactly the same..
"Thy shall keep thy theism to thyself"
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
"The round, metal cooking utensil referring to the larger, cookware customarily used for, but not limited to, stews, as being of a dark shade or possibly of African descent." ~~ Fixed for now. But keep in mind any one of the words used in that fix may become politically incorrect or offensive at any moment for any reason. Further amendments may be required to prevent frivolous lawsuits in the future.
And my last post asks this question as well. Why is being anti-muslim while being an atheist, not the same as being anti-muslim while being any religion? Does it truly have no bearing? Or do you just not want to claim him as an atheist because he did something horrific?
You're a towel.
He was most likely not motivated by his lack of belief in god to shoot these muslims. I don't see any indication of that. Unless you see a statement that says that he wants to get rid of all believers. He specifically went after muslims. No christians, no buddhists, no jews.
Then why even bring it up? This was about the Muslim religion, not Christianity. When someone says, "The Muslim religion actually has violence in its book and is founded upon it," there's no reason to respond with, "Yeah, well the Christian religion is too!" That's going off-topic and serves no actual purpose to the discussion.
You invoking the times of the crusades..... And then you reason like this?
How you like that one then?
144:1 A Psalm of David.
Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
The bible is filled with the exact same bullshit.......
You said you're not an expert in theology. Fine.... But get at least the damn basics right.
Torah, Qur'an and Bible all referring to the exact same God. They are all three Abrahamic religions, and the content of those three books is nearly identical.
And btw. the first Crusade wasn't a result of the spread of Islam. It took place nearly 300 years later, and was initially meant to be a spiritual event, but turned quickly into damn fucking plundering and pillaging war mission.
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
Not the point. People talk about "extreme atheism" but assuming the facebook post is true, this is the first time I can remember someone actually killing because they were so anti-theist. The exception being, of course, when the religious try to pin the crimes of dictators on atheism (presumably because they're tired of having crap like the Crusades and Inquisition and witch-trials pointed out to them).
He could have shot them because he had to much to drink that day... we seriously have no clue what the motive is, but at this point is just as feasible to believe he was an extreme atheist as it is to believe that he was simply Islam-phobic. Ask yourself why you feel it so important to believe that it is impossible to be atheist extremist. An extremist is an extremist, they use whatever they can to justify their beliefs (extremism as a belief of its own).
"The round, metal cooking utensil referring to the larger, cookware customarily used for, but not limited to, stews, as being of a dark shade or possibly of African descent." ~~ Fixed for now. But keep in mind any one of the words used in that fix may become politically incorrect or offensive at any moment for any reason. Further amendments may be required to prevent frivolous lawsuits in the future.
So this guy is an anti-theist? What a table turner.