Erin Burnett just used the words "religious pervert" to describe the shooter in Orlando. Great meme.

[King_Klonopin]

22. Posts like this are a broad-brush blaming of religion, and tend to confuse the disease with symptom.

If he is a religious pervert (someone who has a twisted belief in a god who condones hatred and murder) then his
beliefs are more of a symptom of his hatred and homophobia than they are the cause. His type will distort and tailor
any doctrine in order to fit into (i.e. remove any dissonance) their deeply disturbed psyche.

Another psychopath has killed a bunch a people. Another opportunity to point a finger at God and those who believe in God
(in his case, a thin connection at best) as the "cause" for his violence, and to condemn a wide range of people by "guilt
through association". Evil people like him are outcasts in any mainstream circle. ISIS would love him, and he would seek out like-minded people and groups like ISIS.

If a person is "religious", it does not imply that it causes him to be a homophobic, psychopathic, angry, hate-filled, murderous scumbag.

If a man kills 50 human beings based on the fact that they are gay, then he is a homophobic, psychopathic, angry, hate-filled, murderous scumbag. It was an inevitability that he was going to do something violent, even if religion didn't exist at all. He beat his girlfriend, He is insane.


Affect vs. Effect

Affect is usually a verb, and effect is usually a noun. To affect something is to change or influence it, and an effect is something that happens due to a cause.

Was this man effected by religion, or did his psychopathology affect (pervert, distort, twist) his understanding of God ?