Brand New Atheist » Killing For God http://brandnewatheist.com I'm Rob Jones, I Exist and I Can Prove It Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:18:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Religious Double Standard http://brandnewatheist.com/2008/09/12/the-religious-double-standard/ http://brandnewatheist.com/2008/09/12/the-religious-double-standard/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:21:15 +0000 Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" http://brandnewatheist.com/?p=346 Isaac Zamora went on a shooting rampage last week in Washington. He killed 6 people. His reasoning was “I kill for God. I listen to God.” His attorney, Keith Tyne, said “Clearly there are significant mental health issues at play.”

If you do something good in the name of “God” you are praised, but when you do bad it is “mental health issues”. Why do people who believe in God believe it when someone says God spoke to them and they did something generous but they refuse to believe God would have someone take out a few lost souls?

You can’t have it both ways. Either you believe God talks to people or you don’t and just because the action is bad doesn’t give you the right to reject it as crazy. If a person who does something bad in the name of God is considered crazy then that would also apply to anyone who does something good in the name of God.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_re_us/shooting_rampage

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