Moontanman Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Man shoots atheist friend over religious disagreement. http://www.examiner.com/article/oakland-man-murders-atheist-after-debating-god-s-existence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Sin really needs better wages. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWLabRat Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Isn't that what the mafia, black market, drug/slave trade, etc is for? Those seem to be quite profitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Now all we need is an atheist who shot his theist friend because he disagreed with the theist... I bet that is gonna be difficult to confirm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 To be fair, from the description it does not really look like that religion is prime reason, rather that one being a dick and the other one having lack of self control (and too much drugs and booze). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 To be fair, from the description it does not really look like that religion is prime reason, rather that one being a dick and the other one having lack of self control (and too much drugs and booze). I agree, neither one of them seems to have been exactly hitting on all cylinders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta1212 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 The moral of this story is less that debating religion leads to murder, and more that teasing someone who is drunk and high on coke about his religion and dead father with a weapon present is very stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWLabRat Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 The moral of this story is less that debating religion leads to murder, and more that teasing someone who is drunk and high on coke about his religion and dead father with a weapon present is very stupid. His dead father had a weapon present? How would that matter? I agree though, that's a pretty stupid thing to do. Although with how some people can be, he probably could have insulted his friend's thoughts on politics and have had the same result... Just saying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doG Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Now all we need is an atheist who shot his theist friend because he disagreed with the theist... I bet that is gonna be difficult to confirm... To go a step further would be to show some quantity of wars waged by atheists over religious beliefs comparable to those waged by theists over religious beliefs. I think such an accomplishment would redefine 'herculean'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 (edited) Now all we need is an atheist who shot his theist friend because he disagreed with the theist... I bet that is gonna be difficult to confirm... The best example that comes to mind: The League of Militant Atheists aided the Soviet government in killing clergy and committed believers.[45] The League also made it a priority to remove religious icons from the homes of believers.[46] Under the slogan, "the Storming of Heaven," the League of Militant Atheists pressed for "resolute action against religious peasants" leading to the mass arrest and exile of many believers, especially village priests. By 1940, "over 100 bishops, tens of thousands of Orthodox clergy, and thousands of monks and lay believers had been killed or had died in Soviet prisons and the Gulag." League of Militant Atheists -- Activities As an atheist who frequently reminds religious people about religion's bloody past, I feel like I have to own the above. It really was awful what they did to the clergy in the soviet union. They didn't just kill them... they killed them slow. Edited September 7, 2013 by Iggy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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