This only proves that religion is a plague on humanity. I hope that at least some good can come of this atrocity and we begin to dismantle all religions, everywhere. Islam and Scientology are among the most dangerous and should be the first to go, but the other major religions like Judaism and Christianity must be abandoned if we, as a society, can ever hope to be ruled by reason, logic, and wisdom. Folks, no matter which way you slice it delusion is delusion and we have too many other issues to be concerned with to be dealing with warrantless barbarism.

Don't let anyone ever tell you they know what happens after you die, because they don't. Anyone who claims to know is 1) lying and 2) psychotic.

Be strong enough to know the universe isn't that small or simple. Use your own thoughts and convictions to give rise to spirituality unique to yourself and make your own reasons to live life as a good person. It's time we, as a nation, stop clinging fearfully to these ancient fictions and start being spiritually self-sufficient.

He absolutely is a terrorist, an Islamic terrorist. His actions prove it. Your denial of the fact, that his total consuming belief in all Islamic teachings was the motivating force behind his bloodshed, is the attitude that destroys American freedom. People like you are the real problem because you underestimate the danger and are not willing to confront the issue of Islamic intollerance. Like this terrorist you blame America as a justification for murder.

Hotfrostins and cesspool,

He was no more a terrorist than Timothy Mc Veigh or the members of the Aryan Nation. So if we are going to take the Muslims to GITMO let's round up those racist White boys too.

How about how many have lost their lives living in Atheist societies like China and the Soviet Union?

FL is a dangerous place to live, despite the PR efforts... it's gotten really bad during the Crist administration, too. I know, I've lived here for 15 years. Ans the 'Tan One' really thinks he has a chance to be our next U.S. Senator! My biggest question is if he'll stay in that staged marriage after defeat?

Timothy McVeigh was not a muslim.

Why don't you go on and on?

Come on, name some more.

A couple of christian fundamentalists in as many years?

Islamofascists are doing this on a daily basis all over the world by the hundreds.

Please spare us the Moral Relativism.

Or David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Albert DeSalvo etc etc

This is for escomments; Have you ever heard of the Crusades?
And obviously, you have never watched Monty Python, or for sure you would have heard of the Spanish Inquisition. And what do you think the Rev.John Hagee has in mind with his whole "Christians for Israel", gig? Ya' know what that's about, bunky? Their intentions are to exacerbate the rift between Muslims and Jews so as to bring the great conflagration in the Mid-East that will bring about their rapture.

In other words, stow your Christian holier than thou, crap. It ain't gonna wash here. These new fundamentalist Christians are the bane of mankind. Pound for pound, worse than any Muslim.

johnie2xs

Are you really trying to justify Islamic terrorism by pointing out Christians were bad too?

You are actually going back to the crusades for this?

Maybe you need to be checked by a shrink.

Preferably one who is not a western civilization loathing Muslim Extremist like they allowed in the army.

You aren.t going to strap on bombs and go to a mall or anything are you?

Thank you, I was thinking the same thing.

No, you wouldn't because it happens all the time in the "Christian " community. How about all those good Christian mothers who lill their children because some god's voice told them to. How is that one bit different than this?

Aside from McVeigh- who did not perpetrate his crime in the name of any higher being. Most of the acts of mass terrorism in which several people were killed have been perpetrated by Muslims-usually against other Muslims, but a fair amount against Christendom as well. To tiptoe around the fact that there is a muderous strain inside of Islam is ridiculous.

The religion only grew through military conquest. Mohammed attacked Mecca and then sent out "emissaries" to Egypt, Constantinople, Ctestiphon(Baghdad) telling the rulers to convert or face conversion by the sword. Initially, Christianity spread only by word and deed until it was so prevalent that Constatntine needed to recognize it as a matter of political expediency to garner support for a war he was waging- that took 300 years . For the Muslims, the political mixed with the religious began from the inception.

To equate the two is ridiculous in today's world. Abortion bombers are routinely condemned by all mainstream Christians as are the murders of George Tiller and the doctor in Pensacola. No where in the New Testament does it say it is OK to kill anyone, in fact the opposite is preached almost to the opposite extreme by Jesus. The same cannot be said for Islam.

Yes, they are. And, as a percentage, Muslim extremists are just as rare as KKK members are. Get your facts straight.

@BCaldwell. I take issue with this statement "Christianity spread only by word and deed", unless by deed your are including the "Christian" crusades. The only difference between Christianity and Islam boils down to the interpretation very few events.

Yes Roadrunner you may be right, but today you don't see Klansmen or anyone professing to be a sympathizer with the Klan flying planes into buildings and blowing up train stations all with the xpressed purpose to kill as many people as possible to inflict terror.

Also, initially, Christianity did not spread through violent means unless you count the oppression of its adherents by the Romans. from the death of Christ until 323 AD you cannot name one conquest of Christianity that was violent, it was only when Constantine made it the state religion that it was compromised. The crusades despite popular sentiment in many quarters was actually started as a defense against Islam and its violence and to recover those territories that were once part of Christendom like Jerusalem and Palestine that the Arabic Muslims took in war....see battle of Yarmuk if you need a reference. Also see the Mamaluk invasion of Egypt and the slaughter of the Copts. Please don't play with me on this history end.....you're just not qualified!!!!!!

I agree with you. However, I think this provides a good opportunity for those who hate/fear/distrut any faith to point fingers and launch into their screed.

The fact is, this guy was a psycho and a mass murderer.

Kind of like your racist White thinking.

Yep, Med School takes years and many thousands of dollars. And yep, people's philosophies change. But he signed a legal contract. Did he not understand when he signed up for all those educational benes he was now a member of the ARMED forces? I am anti-war. It is not something that crept up on me. It never entered my mind to join ROTC and enter the miltary just to reap free schooling and then murder/wound people because I now did not want to go to war. He was smart enough to read the part of the contract where he gets to go to med school for free but not smart enough to read the part where he was required to enter ARMED combat as a result?

There are many ways to be a coward, none of them equate to being anti-war. The man lacks any principles. Use whatever excuse is handy at the time - I am being picked on, I am now ultra relgious, whatever, But when it was time for him pay back his debt he chose to mow down scores of people waiting for a medical check-up.If he was so conflicted and against the war he could have found another way out - like refusing to go and sitting in a brig - safe from harming himself or others. If all else failed he could have put that snazzy new gun's barrel in his mouth and just pulled the trigger once. No excuse at all. He is a lying coward who only wanted to play when things were going his way. When it changed he threw the temper tantrum of all times. No excuse at all.

So, were all this sheep busy this Friday night?

CO-SIGN.

maladapted,

We don't know, we are waiting for you to give us your report on being a "complete f#cking moron"

I guess it is possible, no one really expected these wars to go on for so long, it has been around 8 years. They were supposed to get in and get out, no wonder the stress is getting hard to manage.

Once you have the courses, credentials and experience, you think if you really tried to get out you could, and even pay back what was owing, or pay to get out of the contract. There should be some way to get out, so people don't feel so boxed in.

Awol would be the way to go if you had to, not what he did.

The only way this guy had any commitment would have been if he had signed a 4 year commitment. If for instance he had wanted out since 2001 and his contract came up in 2005 he could simply have chosen not to re-up. He could have been discharged- possibly honorably and he could have gone on to make the bucks in private practice as a psychologist. He had ample opportunity to get out at 39 years old. This guy wanted to stay in.

The thing I do not understand is that he would never ever have been in a forward unit. he would have been in a rear medical unit. what the hell did he do this for. sad sick man

So then, we should not expect this sort of atrocious behavior from atheists and agnostics, correct?

Your statement is a "religious" statement. You are speaking from what you believe.