What happened on the Virginia Tech campus last week was a tragedy. But, like what happened at Columbine eight years ago, I refuse to jump on the bandwagon and just call the shooter evil and deranged. Obviously dude had issues, but I think this article sums it up well.

Also, this thread at Daily Kos felt like it was written by me.

We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of redemption after our lives, but the necessity of compassion in our lives. We believe in people, in their joys and pains, in their good ideas and their wit and wisdom. We believe in human rights and dignity, and we know what it is for those to be trampled on by brutes and vandals. We may believe that the universe is pitilessly indifferent but we know that friends and strangers alike most certainly are not. We despise atrocity, not because a god tells us that it is wrong, but because if not massacre then nothing could be wrong.

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