[Thunderball]

I'm no expert on mental illness either, but being able to recollect the issue and seeing it as logical does not discount total mental dysfunction or sociopathy. The guy was/is totally messed in the head. Probably a similar illness that "Ice Man" Kuklinski must suffer from. Most mentally ill people go undiagnosed before their first psychotic episode, that sadly, leaves a victim or victims in its wake. Whether or not he thought the voice in his head was God, Buddha, the Cookie Monster or the Flying Spaghetti Monster is completely immaterial.

Even if religion was the "motive" for this disgusting act, it really can't be used as any meaningful evidence against religion. To use a vulgar example, its essentially like saying if a guy rapes a pretty woman dressed provocatively, rather than the fact that he is totally screwed in the head, using it as a argument for victorian era values, and saying that its a sign that society has become too outwardly sexual and its her fault for "leading him on" by dressing like "a whore"... completely dismisses the real issue for something that is only superficially related.

Religion has enough inherent flaws and enough stupid sane people to damage its credibility, lets not try to drag in the psychopaths.