{"id":3051,"date":"2012-07-23T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2017-12-22T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:57:39","slug":"colorado-shooters-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Shooter\u2019s Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been watching this situation pretty carefully. The killer, James Holmes, does not have much of an online presence so it is difficult to learn much about him. A few details have surfaced however and they make his religious affiliation uncertain.<\/p>\n

His parents are Christian and he at one point went to church fairly regularly. He also planned to be a counselor at a Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters group. This tells us that if he was a religious believer, he wasn\u2019t a fundamentalist.<\/p>\n

Holmes was also a very educated science student in neuroscience no less. This leaves me with the feeling that he might not have believed in a god at all. It is very possible that he is an atheist.<\/p>\n

Of course, if that is the case, it had nothing to do with his actions. As near as I can tell, he started planning for the attack 4 months ago and really committed to it a month ago. It was at that time that he quit his PhD program. I suspect that something happened at those times to trigger this.<\/p>\n

But I think atheists should be prepared to talk about this if it does come out that he was an atheist. Christians are already blaming the attack on atheism<\/a> even though the reports currently suggest he was a Christian. Just imagine what they will say if it comes out that he didn\u2019t really believe any of that stuff.<\/p>\n

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