[b]People are making a baseless jump to the Oregon shooter being atheist. [/b]
He singled out Christians but the articles I read said nothing about him being atheist. Now to my knowledge we don't know why he singled out Christians [u]but if he was against religion that would make him an [b]Anti-Theist[/b][/u]. Atheist are not against religion, people often confuse their reasons for not believing as being against religion. However, some atheist are anti-Theist as well. Lets also not forget the fact, there is a difference between disliking organized religion and being completely against it wanting to get rid of it.
[b]Atheism & anti-theism are two completely different things. [/b]
[b]Edit 1:[/b] "Even if he was atheist, that would say nothing bad about atheism." - Lok
Which is true.
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Edited by ReignofSpartain: 10/3/2015 5:07:12 PMMind you, when I looke at all the news sources, all of them had nothing to do about religion. Only 2 places had sourced religious relations when the reports first came out >Fox News >some other place So I could tell it's bs, but because so many watch Fox News this belief would spread and it did