Does anyone really believe he wouldn't have done this if he wasn't religious? There are plenty of ways to disprove religion, but these threads Cheese makes every week seem to imply that religion is the source of all evil.
The guy was crazy, and if it wasn't Jesus it would have been voices in his head or something else. There are many reasons for people to oppose religion, but opposing it because it creates murder isn't one of them IMO. Just because some people use it as an excuse to do horrible things, it doesn't mean they wouldn't do it without religion. Not to mention that murdering his son had nothing to do with the teachings of his religion, so I don't understand how anyone can really blame this on religion anyways.
The guy is justifying what he did by pointing to something that actually opposes what he did. It would be like someone trying to justify drinking a bottle of bleach because of a 'do not ingest' warning on the bottle.
Last edited by koop; 02-14-2009 at 01:54 PM.
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