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Apparently we're responsible for all mass murders (Original Post) WhollyHeretic Aug 2015 OP
Bile O'Reilly again. beam me up scottie Aug 2015 #1
I couldn't bring myself to watch the video either. I fixed the link. WhollyHeretic Aug 2015 #2
I thought that might have been it, that's why I posted the text. beam me up scottie Aug 2015 #3
All bad people are automatically atheists since Christians are all good WhollyHeretic Aug 2015 #4
That explains it. beam me up scottie Aug 2015 #5
Bill O'reilly says whatever his gullible, stupid audience wants to hear. mountain grammy Aug 2015 #6
Hell, there are DUers who push that bigoted filth. trotsky Aug 2015 #7
well of course RussBLib Aug 2015 #8
Are you being sarcastic, or what? nt Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #13
SSDT deucemagnet Aug 2015 #9
O'Really? onager Aug 2015 #10
I assume he was talking about the latest shooting in Virginia and that murderer WhollyHeretic Aug 2015 #11
And we can't forget Jim Jones. nt Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #14
Oh huhh libodem Aug 2015 #12
heh heh. +1 progressoid Aug 2015 #16
Spiritualism? We're meant to be communing with the dead, to stop murders? muriel_volestrangler Aug 2015 #15
Of course! Ain't you got no FAITH!? onager Aug 2015 #17

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
1. Bile O'Reilly again.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:54 AM
Aug 2015
O’Reilly Connects WDBJ Shooting to U.S. ‘Turning Away from Spiritualism’ and Religion

O’Reilly tonight connected the WDBJ shooting to America “turning away from spiritualism” and saying that nearly every killer he’s ever reported on has believed in nothing.

O’Reilly cited “rise in nihilism and a decline in spiritual belief,” as well as the declining number of Americans identifying as Christians and the increasing number of Americans identifying as religiously innovated, to connect this to what influences killers with “few restraints in their lives.”

Psychotherapist Karen Ruskin pushed back a bit and said there are “many cases where people are spiritual and they kill others.” O’Reilly challenged her to name one “outside of the jihadists.” Ruskin asked why not include jihadists as an example of killers motivated by their strong beliefs.

She insisted that mental illness doesn’t discriminate whether you’re a believer or non-believer, but O’Reilly insisted, “Every single murderer over 40 years that I have covered in these circumstances has been either atheistic, agnostic, no religious basis at all.”

He again asked, “Can you point to one person who committed mass murder recently that had a religious background? You cannot.”

Now, in case you’re wondering why O’Reilly isn’t including religious Muslim jihadists in there, here’s his explanation:

“The spiritualism falls apart in the face of the jihad, okay, which is a perversion of Islam, we all know that. But over the years and centuries, religion has been used to justify murder, even in the Christian precincts. That has happened. But individuals in this country now, I believe, are tending away from spirituality and into the secular-progressive ‘it’s all about me.’ And when you combine that with a mental illness, you have what you had in Virginia yesterday.”



There's a video from FauxNews there too but I don't have the stomach to watch it.







btw your link isn't working.

WhollyHeretic

(4,074 posts)
2. I couldn't bring myself to watch the video either. I fixed the link.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 07:10 AM
Aug 2015

I had posted from my phone originally but it was acting funny.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
3. I thought that might have been it, that's why I posted the text.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 07:12 AM
Aug 2015

They just never quit, do they?

Atheists are such a threat to their precious religion that they have to constantly gin up hatred towards us.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
5. That explains it.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 07:48 AM
Aug 2015

I'm sure they had a crisis of faith when they committed mass murder.

Isn't that the go to defense whenever a Christian sins?

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
7. Hell, there are DUers who push that bigoted filth.
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:39 AM
Aug 2015

Religion, of course, can only be noble and good and sunshine and rainbows. Ergo, anytime something bad happens, it's because someone is NOT behaving according to a religion.

It is shocking how many alleged progressives don't even want to understand how bigoted and ugly that line of thinking is. "religion = good // non-religion = bad"

RussBLib

(9,019 posts)
8. well of course
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:46 AM
Aug 2015

Last edited Fri Aug 28, 2015, 03:23 PM - Edit history (1)

because, after all, in centuries past, no crimes or murders were ever committed by those who were fervent believers.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
9. SSDT
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:11 AM
Aug 2015

Same Shit, Different Tragedy.

After Sandy Hook they blamed the tragedy on secularism for taking God out of the classroom, as if nothing bad ever happens to children around priests.

onager

(9,356 posts)
10. O'Really?
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 11:45 AM
Aug 2015
...but O’Reilly insisted, “Every single murderer over 40 years that I have covered in these circumstances has been either atheistic, agnostic, no religious basis at all.”

Aw, you buncha nit-pickers! Bill's simply covering the wrong people. Not his fault! To help him out, just off the top of my alleged head...

1989 - Jeffrey Lundgren (Xian/LDS) - "prophet" who ordered the massacre of an entire family, including their young children, in Kirkland, OH.

1994 - David Koresh (Xian)

1994- Paul Jennings Hill (Xian), murdered Florida doctor who provided abortions and his escort, a retired US military officer

1996 - Eric Rudolph (Xian)

I'm already tired. So here's a whole Wiki entry on "Xian Terrorism:"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

WhollyHeretic

(4,074 posts)
11. I assume he was talking about the latest shooting in Virginia and that murderer
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 12:10 PM
Aug 2015

said god told him to do it.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
15. Spiritualism? We're meant to be communing with the dead, to stop murders?
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 06:21 PM
Aug 2015

Do they help solve serial murder cases or something?

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