[b]People are making a baseless jump to the Oregon shooter being atheist. [/b]
He singled out Christians but the articles I read said nothing about him being atheist. Now to my knowledge we don't know why he singled out Christians [u]but if he was against religion that would make him an [b]Anti-Theist[/b][/u]. Atheist are not against religion, people often confuse their reasons for not believing as being against religion. However, some atheist are anti-Theist as well. Lets also not forget the fact, there is a difference between disliking organized religion and being completely against it wanting to get rid of it.
[b]Atheism & anti-theism are two completely different things. [/b]
[b]Edit 1:[/b] "Even if he was atheist, that would say nothing bad about atheism." - Lok
Which is true.
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Same thing happened at columbine. There was that girl that was apparently asked if she believed in god by one of the killers and she said yes but that's not what happened at all. Still it got all hyped up by the media.