I feel a bit relieved.

[Little Rik]

I suggest both of you guys to analyse the statistics and see how many massacres are committed by
religious minded idiots and how many by non religious minded idiots.
After you do this come back to me so you can argue with a better understanding of the issue.

Just look in the US where most massacres in the last 30 years were committed by non religious people.
You never thought about it Expired, did you?  

Why deviate from the subject of your initial thread? For this incident, I believe we are in agreement that religion and mental sickness is a contributing factor.  

From an Atheist perspective, there are concerns when Religion is taken to the ultimate extreme. There is no ability to rationalize. If someone takes a hardcore religious stance that people who think differently are evil and Old Testimate passages calls for their destruction, that is concerning.

Pol Pot was an atheist.
He managed to butchered few million people.
I repeat once again.
It wouldn't make an inch of difference whether the killer is religious or not.
The cancer is in the twisted mind and got to create a problem for other people one way or an other.