CliveStaples Wrote:I still haven't said that anyone thinks a person of different beliefs is less of a victim. They may very well consider them just as much of a victim; I just think they don't care as much. That's why Ryantology is lecturing about how bad theism is, instead of how bad the shooter's ideology is.
As far as I could tell, the shooter's ideogology was euqal rights for gays and lesbians, and he decided to go beyond the normal means of spreading a message by committing acts of violence. I don't see how his ideology is to blame. His ideology doesn't advocate violence, but this one man went ahead and tried to kill people. What we should be talking about is how bad of a person the shooter is.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
