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In reply to the discussion: Chapel hill shooter was a 'militant atheist' who fantasised that religion would 'go away'. [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Most murderers in the US are Christian, but very few murder motivated by Xianity. Some however do, such as Roeder or Rudolph or Shelton.
It's possible this chap killed for his hatred of religious folks, although why he needed 46 years in the South to come across religious folk is a bit of a puzzler. Maybe he hated Muslims in particular. We'll likely get more inferential data soon. But hatred of religion is not enjoined by any dogma or shared creed of atheists, for the simple fact that atheists have none.
Sure I'd be willing to go out on a very safe limb and say it's more likely for atheists to have a universal hatred for ALL religions than it is for believers, who instead are far more likely to have specific hatred for INDIVIDUAL religions instead. It's just not a component of an atheist belief system because there is no atheist belief system.