Massachusetts Senate Candidate Calls Boston Bombings a ‘Godless Act’

[Rob H.]

Massachusetts Senate Candidate Calls Boston Bombings a ‘Godless Act’
April 19, 2013 By Hemant Mehta

Michael Sullivan, a former U.S. attorney and current Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, used a throwaway line the other day to describe the Boston bombers… but in the process, he slandered all of us who are law-abiding, patriotic atheists:

“I don’t have any doubt in my mind that they are going to identify the person or people responsible for this horrific, cowardly and godless act. I think there is going to be so much evidence available to the investigators that they will be able to put the pieces together.”

-snip-

It’s easy to suggest that “godless” people committed this tragic crime because the stereotype is that we’re immoral, awful people with no regard for the sanctity of life. None of that is true. You can argue it’s just a figure of speech and he wasn’t actually referring to atheists, per se, but that doesn’t excuse the use of the word. It’s irresponsible and completely out of line to accuse someone who doesn’t believe in God, even in passing, for doing something like this. (Emphasis mine--Rob.)

Full article here.

[frogmarch]

1. He was wrong. It

was a horrific, cowardly and godawful act.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. But does he think dropping a bomb from the sky is an act of god?

[Warren Stupidity]

7. I got into a screaming match with my wife over the difference between

blowing up people at the marathon and blowing up villagers in pakistan. Well the screaming was all one sided, I just had to pick my jaw up off the floor. There really isn't much difference other than which "just so" stories are being used to rationalize atrocities.

[Dan Ken]

3. Republicans seldom if ever speak the truth, actually...

it was probably a belief in some god of some sort that drove these two, (and perhaps others involved), to do such an horrific act.

That would be more close to a true statement, as more facts become known. I'm not saying belief in one name of a god or another name of a god is better or worse, all such belief systems often lead to irrational justifications for committing all sorts of senseless acts

[Arugula Latte]

4. Why did their "loving" God either cause or allow the bombing, eh?

I mean, the dude is omnipotent and omniscient, am I right?

[Fumesucker]

5. It may have been "godless" but I don't think it was "allahless" n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Oh great. The god smacked blow up the marathon so blame atheists.

[defacto7]

8. Sounds more like

an act of some God to me. At least by the given attributes of the biblical God, for example. So you might say it was a God like act in that respect.

In any case, you can't use the term god for any depiction of an act. It's ludicrous.

[JNelson6563]

9. People use "godless"

as one of their more disdain-y expressions of disdain. It is annoying and something that would be wise for us unbelievers to take issue with. Loudly.

Julie

[backscatter712]

10. What an asshole! n/t

[Zoeisright]

11. Sounds like a godly act to me.

Most of these nuts have some sort of religious illness.

Fuck you, Sullivan.

[dimbear]

12. Evidence is that the chief perpetrator prayed to Allah five times daily for the last several

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years. Of course that's just his aunt talking. Wouldn't be as well informed as some politician.






Sunday update: not only big brother, but little brother did the five times a day thing. If they are indeed godless, they miss the point of praying somehow.

[Phillip McCleod]

13. it's the knee-jerk version of the 'true scotsman' fallacy.

anyone who steps over the line from normal religious belief into criminality and violence like this is deemed 'no longer a member' of the faith, or any faith. so they must be 'godless'.

sadly for Sullivan, there are millions of believers who disagree and hang onto fundamentalist fantasies of armageddon.. like somehow the end of the world is going to be a *good* thing.

[bravenak]

14. Sure.

Atheist don't bomb people, we leave that for theists.
God will either smite them, or give them a lotta virgins. Hopefully ugly male troll virgins to mate with for eternity.

[amuse bouche]

15. Of course he's full of crap

The heinous act was committed by someone who described himself as deeply religious

The God Frauds are a Global Disease

[DetlefK]

16. If "godless" means that God was absent during this catastrophe...

[AtheistCrusader]

17. All acts are godless.

All places and times too.

Sullivan is godless too, he just doesn't know it.