[
] DO we have to list killers as per believers in a god vis a vis
atheists? Is there a basis of comparison between the Virginia Tech
shooter with Idi Amin? Or a Tim McVeigh with Ted Bundy. Charles
Manson and maybe Pol Pot? The evil in their head are individual
darkness. The glaring parallel is—they kill people for reasons
that's personally theirs. The human mind is unpredictable. Alfred
Nobel invented the dynamite for a reason not to kill and maybe Adam
Lanza got weird when mom and dad divorced and then mom spent more
time in the shooting range. Did these guys read the Bible? Or maybe
Mother Teresa would have poisoned her Calcutta village the same way
as Jim Jones did in Guyana. Both read the Bible profusely. Or a
Muslim imam who mass feeds people in towns battered by typhoons would
have put cyanide in the food after reading a chapter in Quran? People
kill. They could be a loner kid who listens to Pink Floyd over and
over or one who idolizes Che Guevara. They got sick reasons and sick
minds. Many times they don't even have a reason. They simply feel the
insistence and compulsion to kill.
I
don't favor pointing at a certain collective belief system, religious
or ideological as the guilty triggers, because that would also indict
and wrongly judge those other peaceful believers. There is so much
evil in this world. Yes. But let us not lump them as one collective
humanity. It is offensive. It is not solving or minimizing hatred at
all. In fact it is fueling it. What happened, all these mass
killings, aren't the kind of wrongdoing that a peace-loving Muslim or
Christian would like to be compared with or aligned with.
[
] CONSPIRACY theory? As in governments plot mass killings to push
laws? This is way off left field, I must say. Why don't we look at
the culture itself. Facts. The gravitation to polar extremes in
present day America as shown by behaviors in regards coming
presidential election shows that Americans are upset about
practically all levels of institutions and structures. You don't have
to be a devout Muslim or a redneck or an Occupy radical to get angry
these days. Historically, the incidence of mass murders in America in
the last ten or 20 years is unprecedented. THAT had to be looked at.
It is not religion because the two largest traditional religions,
Islam and Christianity, have always been a part of America. But the
huge discrepancy between rich and poor has never been this wide. The
increase of queues to CVS is alarming than those who seek peace in
church. And if I believe that some government machineries are behind
these, then I am up for doomsday. I don't want to look at the world
and society like that.
[
] RELIGION and ATHEISM. I am continually weirded out by people who
categorically judge Christians by what some from their flock say. It
is not fair. It's like do all Muslims mow down people like what
terrorists do? That, religion is the sole cause of gruesome killings
in this world? That atheism (and/or paganism) is the answer to global
peace? How ignorant some people could be! Do they know that serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer is an atheist? And Jim Jones who poisoned to
death 909 people in Guyana in 1978 was actually an atheist? And those
leaders that we love to hate: Kim Jong-Il, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot,
Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin never believed in God or religion? And
the most evil of them all, Adolf Hitler did not believe in organized
religion?
One
other dude (who was on my FB) who hides behind a Hindu name maintains
that pagans never had war? Read up History 101, please! Why can't
people grow up--and start widening their minds than continually
closing them? Putting blame on religion or people's culture for the
evils in this world is one of the most profound form of ignorance and
hatred. We will never have a real semblance of real peace in this
world if some people live this kind of narrow-mindedness all their
lives. I will say that over and over and over again.
[
] I SAY, no matter how angry a person is, let him get it out of his
system--then compromise and negotiate. Maybe he/she has a point.
Maybe the channeling was the problem. Maybe it's a question of an apt
device to show/share truths. But if we immediately stereotype or
judge a person "abusive" or "rude" or worst,
mentally deranged and the only cure is a shrink and prescription--I
believe that, we are undermining our human ability to heal and
understand. The filmmaker Sam Peckinpah said, "The whole
underside of our society has always been violence and still is.
Everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an
animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has
grace and love and beauty." But unlike most animals, humans
possess rational minds and compassionate hearts. If we are able to
channel that aggression in art or music or literature, or even farm
work or sports, that anger could be stopped from evolving to physical
violence.
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