When does the ideology of a killer matter?
Charles C. W. Cooke "Three Muslims have been murdered by a white atheist — ostensibly over a parking dispute. The shooter, if his Facebook page is to be believed, was what one might term an “anti-theist progressive.” Among the public figures he admired were Rachel Maddow, Bill Nye the engineer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Among the groups with which he identified were the Southern Poverty Law center, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the Huffington Post. Among those people he disliked were political conservatives, the devoutly religious, and fans of country music. This was not a man, let’s say, who is likely to have been friends with Ted Nugent.
"And here’s the thing: None of this matters at all. Zip. Nada. Zilch."
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"The crucial difference between today’s killing and the routine killings that we see around the world is not that one murderer is familiar and the other is foreign. It is that the former is an outlier, and the latter is part of a critical mass. Of course people raise their eyebrows in one case and not the other. The swallows are flying in formation."
Having said all this, I despise this killer of these fine young people and regard him to be every bit as contemptible as the murderers in Paris . As for our leftist friends, I feel your pain that this murderer is not a TEA Partier. TD
RedState "In light of today’s horrible shootings is Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we need to seriously debate the violent nature that seems to be common in atheists and supporters of homosexual rights. For instance, here are some screen caps from the Facebook page of the Chapel Hill shooter, Craig Kirby."
Charles C. W. Cooke "Three Muslims have been murdered by a white atheist — ostensibly over a parking dispute. The shooter, if his Facebook page is to be believed, was what one might term an “anti-theist progressive.” Among the public figures he admired were Rachel Maddow, Bill Nye the engineer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Among the groups with which he identified were the Southern Poverty Law center, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the Huffington Post. Among those people he disliked were political conservatives, the devoutly religious, and fans of country music. This was not a man, let’s say, who is likely to have been friends with Ted Nugent.
"And here’s the thing: None of this matters at all. Zip. Nada. Zilch."
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"The crucial difference between today’s killing and the routine killings that we see around the world is not that one murderer is familiar and the other is foreign. It is that the former is an outlier, and the latter is part of a critical mass. Of course people raise their eyebrows in one case and not the other. The swallows are flying in formation."
Having said all this, I despise this killer of these fine young people and regard him to be every bit as contemptible as the murderers in Paris . As for our leftist friends, I feel your pain that this murderer is not a TEA Partier. TD
RedState "In light of today’s horrible shootings is Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we need to seriously debate the violent nature that seems to be common in atheists and supporters of homosexual rights. For instance, here are some screen caps from the Facebook page of the Chapel Hill shooter, Craig Kirby."
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- Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, was an avowed atheist.
- Floyd Lee Corkins, the deranged gunman who invaded the headquarters of the Family Research Council did so because he was a homosexual marriage advocate and he was an atheist.
- Jared Lee Loughner, the man who shot Gabby Gifford, was an atheist.
- Wade Michael Page, the man who killed 6 and wounded 4 when he shot up a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, was an atheist.
- The Columbine shooters were atheists.
