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To: Brumar89 who wrote (138952)	9/28/2008 5:20:53 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Did Evolution and Atheism Make Dahmer Do It? Statement In a prison cell interview before he died, Jeffrey Dahmer, the homicidal cannibal, when asked why he did his terrible deeds, said that when he came to believe that there was no God and that we had evolved from slime, and that he felt there was no moral restraints that should hold him back. Immediately upon hearing this, an evangelical Christian creationist would say "Aha! This proves that evolution and atheism makes people do evil things!' But does it? People do things for complex personal reasons, and then search for justifications. It is more likely that Dahmer's impulse was his drive for personal dominance and lack of consideration for his victims, and he rationalized after the fact that evolution and atheism made it all right. Most evolutionists and atheists live virtuous lives. One finds few, if any, atheists in prison. And what if Dahmer had used The Crucifixion and The Last Supper as justifications? What if he had used the ideas of "no salvation without shedding of blood" (Hebrews 9:22) and "eating of flesh and blood" (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, 1 Corinthians 10:16) very literally? David Koresh and Charles Manson found in the Bible justification for what they did. Would all this prove the justification for what they did? Would all this prove that the Bible causes crimes? Or would it prove, as I said about evolution and atheism, that people choose what to do and then find whatever justification they can think of as excuses. If you are charitable toward the Bible and give it the benefit of doubt over its misuse, why not be charitable toward evolution and atheism and give them benefit of the doubt over misuse. If you don't - and excuse the Bible all the time, and always blame evolution and atheism - then that is a double standard that renders your opinions irrelevant. cincinnatiskeptics.org