RE: Is the Chapel Hill incident hypocritical of Anti-Thiests?
February 15, 2015 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2015 at 5:27 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(February 15, 2015 at 5:19 pm)NuclearJaguar Wrote: Whatever way you cut it up, those 3 people are widely believed to have been good people who did nothng wrong, therefore if he killed them it's for no other reason than "because they're Muslim".
Again, people, this was an incident over a parking spot! They didn't do anything wrong, they were absolutely peaceful Muslims. But this was an altercation that this asshole took far enough to murder people. I still think it's too early to say that this crime was motivated solely by his anti-theism.
Put it this way, if a Christian who posts anti-terrorism shit on FB all the time and retweets all of the BS religious memes that come his way about "Religion of Peace" and Quran verses that show the barbarity of the book kills people after a parking lot altercation and the people he kills happen to be Muslim, would we approach this differently?
Could this have been a hate crime? Absolutely. I just think it's not automatically one.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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