Do Guns & Religion Reduce Humans' Inhumanity?

Tues. Feb. 12, 2013:


1.  Debate Over Gun Control Is One-Sided in Idaho
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/debate-over-gun-control-is-one-sided-in-idaho.html

2.  Rising Voice of Gun Ownership Is Female
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/rising-voice-of-gun-ownership-is-female.html?ref=todayspaper

3.  "Papua New Guinea mob burns woman" [Boston Globe, Sun. Feb. 10, 2013]
PORT MORESBY,  Papua New Guinea -- A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses in Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday [Feb. 8, 2013].
It was the latest socrcery-related killing in this South Pacific island nation.
Bystanders, including many children, watched and some took photographs of Wednesday's brutal slaying.

4.  At first, this Atheist seems totally correct.
But then, one remembers that all animals in the Animal Kingdom slaughter as well.  Religion just provides humans a more creative excuse.

• Tom
• Rye

Atheists like myself have to laugh at all the mighty mind crunching various pundits put into the why and wherefore of the violence in religious fundamentalist tribal areas! Gee what could possibly be the problem? How about: not enough atheists!

The next generation of tribal disorder and violence and political mayhem begins when you train credulous young children to believe in religious nonsense lies. If peace and prosperity actually mattered to anyone studying and caring about these parts of the world, they'd find the courage to say that religion poisons everything it touches and has for 3000 years.