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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — Vance Boelter grew up in a sports-loving Lutheran family in a small Minnesota town where nobody locked their doors — a background that gave little hint of the zealotry to come or the deadly violence of which he is now accused.
At 17, he had a religious conversion. As he recalled decades later during a passionate sermon overseas, what happened next shook his life. Waving a Bible and thundering from the podium, he spoke about meeting the holy spirit and running off pamphlets about Jesus to give to everyone he knew….” Washington Post 6-17-25 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/17/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-christianity/

A certain kind of religion seems to push some people over the edge.

What do you think?
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Religion is the route of all evil truth [/quote]

Lack of religion is no protection. See the Cultural Revolution.[/quote]

People can do very bad things with or without religion.   Religion can give people a means of justifying their evil actions.[/quote]

Right -- they can tell themselves that those people deserve it, because they don't believe the same supernatural stuff that we do.[/quote]

And atheists can tell themselves religious people deserve because they are “crazy.” Right, OP?

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Nobody believed people deserved to “drink the kool aid”. There is empathy when people are victimized by religion.

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