The guy was mental. I mean to kill three people over a parking space? That's nuts.

The killings have nothing to do with religion.

I like the responses from various atheist leaders who say the same thing. Look people... why are you calling the atheist groups for a comment just because he 'liked' their Facebook page? When religious nuts kill there children does the media go to the pope or the other church leaders to get a response? No.

The media is looking to hype it and give atheists a stab.

what in the actual fuck??

somebody killing three people over a parking space cannot be demonstrably linked to overpopulation. you might as well say it's EVOLUTION.

OK, time to update my paste buffer. I'm sure I must sound like Brian37's Religion is the root of all evil or Vastet's wealthy hoarders are the root of all evil. You're right overpopulation, religion and hoarding are all driven by the genes we evolved.

There is no political or social will to eliminate them, so just accept this.

So I'll blame it all on the human genome. So the solution is obvious, genetically modified babies without any desire to be religious, republican, hoarders, violent, overpopulate the earth or watch Fox news.

At least my paste buffer is better than the PC one of 'blame it all on mental illness'.

 Midas, Pan and Apollo; Midas and the Ass's Ears, from Ovid, the Metamorphoses, Book XI

Bk XI:146-171 Pan and Apollo compete before Tmolus

 "Hating wealth, Midas lived among woods and fields, and the mountain caves Pan always inhabits. But he remained
dull-witted, and, as before, his foolish mind was destined once again to hurt its owner. Mount Tmolus, stands steep and high,
commanding a wide view of the distant sea, its sloping sides extending to Sardis on the one side, and as far as tiny Hypaepae on
the other. While Pan was there, playing light airs on his reeds glued together with wax, he boasted of his pipings, to the gentle
nymphs, and dared to speak slightingly of Apollo’s song compared with his own, and entered an unequal contest with Tmolus, the
god of the mountain, as judge.
The aged judge was seated on his mountain-top and shook his ears free of the trees. Only an oak-wreath circled his dark hair,
and acorns brushed against his hollow temples. Looking at the god of the flocks he said: ‘There is nothing to prevent my judging.’
Pan sounded the rustic reeds, and entranced Midas (who chanced to be near the playing) with wild pipings. Following this, sacred
Tmolus turned his face towards that of Phoebus: his forests followed.
Phoebus’s golden hair was wreathed with laurel from Parnassus, and his robes dyed with Tyrian purple, swept the earth. He
held his lyre, inlaid with gems and Indian ivory, in his left hand, and the plectrum in the other. His attitude was that of a true artist.
Then with skilled fingers, he plucked the strings, and Tmolus, captivated by their sweetness, ordered Pan to lower his pipes in
submission to the lyre.

Bk XI:172-193 Midas and the ass’s ears

The judgment of the sacred mountain-god satisfied all opinions, and yet Midas’s voice alone challenged it and called it
unjust. The god of Delos did not allow such undiscriminating ears to keep their human form, but drew them out and covered them
with shaggy grey hair, and made them flexible at the base, and gave them powers of movement. Though the rest was human, he
was punished in that sole aspect: he wore the ears of a slow-moving ass. He was anxious to conceal his ass's ears, and tried to detract
from the shameful ugliness of his head with a purple turban. But the servant who used to trim his long hair with a blade, found it
out, who, since he dare not reveal the disgrace he had seen, but eager to broadcast it to the four winds, and unable to keep it to
himself, went off quietly and dug a hole in the soil. In a tiny voice, he whispered to the hollow earth, and buried his spoken
evidence under the infill, and stole away having closed up the hidden trench. But a thick bed of quivering reeds began to shoot up
there, and as soon as they had grown, at the end of the year, they gave the burrower away: stirred gently, then, by the wind they
repeated the buried words, and testified against his master"

  p.s. --  What  too subtle ??

 No fan of Che or Marx or Ayn Rand for that matter. Humans are diverse in their desires views and goals, that has to be taken into account. It is no different than any ecosystem. It isn't either/or. It isn't nanny state vs anarchy. Mixed economies, some inequity, inforced with balance and anti monopoly concepts. 

But, only an idiot thinks the current state of global corportism isn't hording or a race to the bottom. It is. There is a huge difference between an exploitive extraction market, which is what we have now, and healthy productivity which is about improving and problem solving. 

I've attacked idiots who want to end the private sector, as if you could on a planet of  7 billion, and use the products of wealth like FB and twitter. But no, we don't have to live as if we are our own islands that never affect others. The problem isn't all wealth, the classes are needed. My problem is there is far too much wealth monopolizing law making as if no one else has a right to vote their own self intrests. 

When you have 85 uber billionaires controling half the world's GDP, that is a waste of resources which could be used to wipe out poverty. I have noted pleanty of wealthy people who have the right attitude. I simply think there are not enough with that mindset. I have absolutely no simpathy for those at the top who bitch knowing they have way more money than they actually need. The ones who don't bitch and understand, I have no problem with. Weath is not the issue, attitudes are the issue. 

There is no such thing as a utopia, where one political party, economic view, religion will get 100% of what it wants all the time. Sagan's Pale Blue dot is our reality and we are in the same boat. 

Delusions of grandeur.

Quoting out of context equals failure.