Too bad they didn't use the other end of the shotgun and spare us the cost of a trial.

An eye for an eye?

This is good.

This is what we want.

nekom: An eye for an eye?

No, I think this is "turn the other cheek." As in "turn your head a little so I can smash this shotgun butt into your eye socket, Mr. Stabby Atheist Christian-Hater Dude."

These Militant Atheists give the rest of us a bad name. Praise Nothing!

Alcohol appeared to play a role, he said.

Really? I didn't see that one coming. Kind of like him and the shotgun.

What's his Fark username?

Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

...and if thine an atheist's eye offend thee pluck it out

Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

This guy is a representative of all atheism.

Actually, I just see him as one label: asshat.

NeverDrunk23: Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

This guy is a representative of all atheism.

Actually, I just see him as one label: asshat.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's more like this guy has some severe mental issues and "religion" was his excuse, not his motivation.

Skail: NeverDrunk23: Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

This guy is a representative of all atheism.

Actually, I just see him as one label: asshat.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's more like this guy has some severe mental issues and "religion" was his excuse, not his motivation.

From that article, it says beer was involved (SHOCKING) and that he was a self-described Atheists trying to behead these women only because they were Christian. Now, my question: did they ever interact? Were they door-to-door people and he just flipped and tracked them down, or saw them leave a church as thought 'Yep, they have to die.' I would like to know how he knew that they were Christian and why them. Maybe he did just want to kill them because they were Christian.

Regardless of how it was found out, nothing excused what he tried to do, so screw him.

It's all fun and games until, well, you know....

Skail: NeverDrunk23: Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

This guy is a representative of all atheism.

Actually, I just see him as one label: asshat.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's more like this guy has some severe mental issues and "religion" was his excuse, not his motivation.

Yes, I agree, of course. But it's not gonna stop people citing it both here and elsewhere as an example of the evils of atheism.

It'll be op-ed fodder by Tuesday. I'll bet that at least 3 prominent conservative op-ed writers will have cited this guy as an example of the evils of atheism within the next week or two.

fark you, Mr. Stabby Man. Now I'm going to have to watch you get held up in the media as "why Atheists should all be killed".
/fark you with a chainsaw
//up the ass

Cyclometh: Skail: NeverDrunk23: Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

This guy is a representative of all atheism.

Actually, I just see him as one label: asshat.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's more like this guy has some severe mental issues and "religion" was his excuse, not his motivation.

Yes, I agree, of course. But it's not gonna stop people citing it both here and elsewhere as an example of the evils of atheism.

It'll be op-ed fodder by Tuesday. I'll bet that at least 3 prominent conservative op-ed writers will have cited this guy as an example of the evils of atheism within the next week or two.

I believe that he is shear proof of the dangers of utter stupidity, much like the people who use religion to cause harm.

Just proves that a label doesn't stop people from being assholes.

EYE HAVE YOU

Cagey B: EYE HAVE YOU

I see what you did there.

Too bad this guy won't be able to anymore.

Man who threatened to behead women will lose his eye, police say

Mark 9:47
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell

This guy's set!

Still think he should have been shot - Good for the neighbor showing restraint.

Eye've never beheaded someone so eye'm getting a kick out of these replies.

lumping people together who don't believe in the same things is kinda silly.

What an odd sentence that was.

triple point score if the Christian in question was teh ghey.

Karma is a biatch!

/do atheists believe in karma?

I'm not really seeing this guy as representative of atheism... more like representative of anyone who could be described as "militant" (or "evangelistic") in their beliefs regarding religion. I also think that is what should happen to anyone so described.

You'll shoot your eye out.

This being Fark I have to ask, who is the hero tag for? The Christian or the stabber?

NeverDrunk23: Cagey B: EYE HAVE YOU

I see what you did there.

Too bad this guy won't be able to anymore.

EYE see what you did there.

/ftfy

Oh Colorado Springs...you never cease to amaze me.

He must have done it because the atheist's magic book says to kill all believers. Except there is no atheist magic book.

So he must have done it be cause his invisible friend whispered it in his ear! Except we don't have invisible friends either (as a rule anyway).

Guess he's just a whackjob then ... throw the book at him (the legal one, not the magic one).

This guy represents the worst that contemporary atheism has to offer. Doesn't compare to the worst that contemporary Christianity or contemporary Islam has to offer, but he's still a violent asshat who deserves what he got.

I believe in caramel.

Finally! An atheist crusader. It's about time we got our fair share of the nutsos.

Wanna bet this dildo suddenly remembered GOD when they started talking about taking out his eye? OH GOD, PLEASE, NOT MY EYE! OH GOD NO! And once he gets out of the hospital, they're dragging his one-eyed, bandaged ass off to jail... where he'll become a born-again Christian, of course.

Lessee...this happened in Colorado.

So if a gay guy beats the crap out of some fag-bashing asshole, and the cops elect to do nothing because the fag-bashing asshole got it handed back to him in spades, this is "OOH, BAD, EVIL COPS!" (Fag not charged with aggravated assault)

A Christian belts some atheist asshole in the eye and blinds him, and the cops elect to do nothing because the atheist asshole gets Mosaic justice in the classic eye-for-an-attempted-beheading sense, this is "OOH, GOOD, WONDERFUL COPS!" (Christian not charged with aggravated assault)

I love you Farkers to death, but sometimes your sense of justice is warped.

It would be awesome if the shotgun-wielding eye-basher were another atheist. The story doesn't say, so I'm going to go ahead and assume that for purposes of narrative irony.

Is anyone else having issues viewing images from photobucket or going to their site? I haven't been able to get there for three days now.

/threadjack

SquirrelsOfDoom: nekom: An eye for an eye?

No, I think this is "turn the other cheek." As in "turn your head a little so I can smash this shotgun butt into your eye socket, Mr. Stabby Atheist Christian-Hater Dude."

I'm gonna go with Mr. Drunk Crazy Dude.

Here's your Protip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ7W94XeeE

Not that he is... but....

Why is this guy NOT representative of atheism, but people always post pictures of like... the baptist ministries asshat to be representative of all of christians.

I dunno... I remember not too long ago there was a story of an atheist and a creationist getting into a drunken brawl about evolution which ended in a stabbing; all the fark atheists were like "SEE, its always the religious who pull the knife first..." etc.

Not seeing such play action when its the other way around.

Now he's a cycloptic, militant athiest with anger issues and an alcohol problem. This is is an interesting cat.

Gyrfalcon

Lessee...this happened in Colorado.

So if a gay guy beats the crap out of some fag-bashing asshole, and the cops elect to do nothing because the fag-bashing asshole got it handed back to him in spades, this is "OOH, BAD, EVIL COPS!" (Fag not charged with aggravated assault)

A Christian belts some atheist asshole in the eye and blinds him, and the cops elect to do nothing because the atheist asshole gets Mosaic justice in the classic eye-for-an-attempted-beheading sense, this is "OOH, GOOD, WONDERFUL COPS!" (Christian not charged with aggravated assault)

I love you Farkers to death, but sometimes your sense of justice is warped.

Erm... the cops didn't elect to do nothing. They're already charging him with felony intimidation or something like that, and are investigating for possibly more charges. Read the end of the article again.

Cyclometh: Ah, fark. Now all the Fark Evangelicals™ will come out from under their rocks to claim this guy is representative of all of atheism.

Thanks a lot, you asshat.

Now you know what it's like to be a Christian on every third Fark thread.

/Just sayin'

I hope the guy sues the "Christian" for assault.

the Grinch: "I'm not really seeing this guy as representative of atheism... more like representative of anyone who could be described as "militant" (or "evangelistic") in their beliefs regarding religion"

Come on now, give them their cookie. This really does fit the bill. His hatred of the victims seems to stem from his intolerance of their beliefs. Intolerance may not spring from atheism but that difference did wind up motivating violence. Divisions of any sort between groups of humans often do result in inter-group violence, for a variety of reasons.

If we're going to point out instances of intolerant religious people we need to be willing to acknowledge instances of intolerant irreligious people. The question then becomes whether beliefs are capable of influencing behavior for the worse, whether monotheism for instance has such an influence, and whether atheism by itself is sufficient to motivate anyone to do anything. Perhaps comparisons of predominantly atheistic capitalist countries to religious capitalist countries (Best to keep all other aspects as close to the same as possible to as not to compare apples and oranges) and then examine the standard of living indicies for the religious nations versus the irreligious ones. One could also examine the crime, education and other statistics for each demographic group.

Diamond Joe: Is anyone else having issues viewing images from photobucket or going to their site? I haven't been able to get there for three days now.

/threadjack

Interestingly enough, the one eyed dick in the article may, in fact, be having issues viewing images. So it isn't neccesarily a threadjack so much as a stealth joke.

EYE FOR A...

Aw, damn. Stupid slow coffeeshop internet.

The Grinch: I'm not really seeing this guy as representative of atheism... more like representative of anyone who could be described as "militant" (or "evangelistic") in their beliefs regarding religion. I also think that is what should happen to anyone so described.

Those people are all the same. Sad that they can't realize it.

I did that joke in Alabama, in Fife, and these three rednecks met me after the show. "Hey, buddy! C'mere! Mr. Funny-man, c'mere! Hey, buddy, we're Christians, and we don't like what you said."

"So then forgive me."

/Bill Hicks FTW

The Grinch: I'm not really seeing this guy as representative of atheism... more like representative of anyone who could be described as "militant" (or "evangelistic") in their beliefs regarding religion. I also think that is what should happen to anyone so described.

I believe the term you are looking for is 'asshole.'

Doesn't matter if the guy was Christian, Jewish, Atheist, Jedi, purple. He is still an asshole.

Cynical Idealist: /fark you with a chainsaw

Gently?

/obscure?

Bills Cat: Wanna bet this dildo suddenly remembered GOD when they started talking about taking out his eye? OH GOD, PLEASE, NOT MY EYE! OH GOD NO! And once he gets out of the hospital, they're dragging his one-eyed, bandaged ass off to jail... where he'll become a born-again Christian, of course.

I don't think atheism plays as much a role as INSANITY. Oh sure we've all had a few too many beers and ended up in a fight, but deciding to go behead some ladies? No sir, I wouldn't classify that as normal at all.

bikerific: I'm gonna go with Mr. Drunk Crazy Dude.

It's a fair bet this crazy shiat did what he did because of some hate for Christians. Lets call him Mr Crazy-Drunk-Angry-Anti-Theist Dude. Or Russell.

Whichever.