God is the real terrorist.

This is troubling me, because I feel the entire conversation is missing an essential point or perspective and I've been trying to figure out what that is.

Since that asshole with the creepy Beatrix Potter name shot up Planned Parenthood, liberal ideologues have been singing, solo and /ripieno/, the orthodox line about "homegrown Christian terrorism". And the conservatives... well, frankly, I have not consulted the rightist ideologues, but the leftist ones *assure* me the rightist ones are doing their usual softshoe grin hey look over there about how the "shooter" was a crazy person acting alone and ain't it just turrble what he done did I mention hey look over there?

Furthermore, everyone everywhere is referring to the incident as being "politically motivated"; fed and state LE both have been quoted as saying so. But but but. Two things: 1. Absent an already vast national-level conspiracy, Robert Lewis Dear WAS a crazy person acting alone; and 2. That politicians and the political process have been engaged for half a century in the fight over safe and legal abortion does not make this a political action. Yes, I absolutely mean that. This murtherer may have a coherent politics—as far as his likely pathological brain will allow—and it's a *fair* assumption he's not a big Obamahite; but this is not about his politics and has nothing to do with any politician who takes up either the attack or the defense of the legal practice of abortion. This is about... Well, remember (ye codgerscienti) those Hebrew National hot dog commercials? Here, have a look and then we'll continue.

Now I'm not trying to conflate what Jews think their deity wants with that Christians think theirs wants. Oh, no, wait, yes I am. It's the same fucking deity, doncha know: and the divisions between Jew and Christian and between Jew and Muslim and between Christian and Muslim—those divisions are only the widest and most visible of the chasms between WHAT DIFFERENT HUMANS BRAINS INSIST THE DEITY WANTS. It's as simple as that. The problem isn't political. It's theological.

Obama and many other liberal voices have taken up their ritual call-and-response:

MASS MURDERER: Bang bang bang!
SCHOLA: Gun control gun control gun control.

I'm not saying we *don't* need more sensible gun control (I frankly believe the state should take as many guns off the street as they can and make them extremely difficult to acquire). I'm saying that isn't the only problem in cases like this; it isn't even the most salient problem. This Dear asshole (heh) wasn't part of any sort of criminal conspiracy. (To call his act "terrorism" so dilates the definition of the word as to negate similar claims against people who, oh, I dunno, shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the street; it insults the latter's cause and integrity to suggest their shooters are of the same class of felons as Robert Lewis Dear.)

It wasn't terrorism. It wasn't even primarily about violent defense of extremist political ideas; it was about violent defense of extremist theistic ideas.

Mass murder was and is the inevitable endpoint of a societal model that does nothing to police indoctrination into the belief in a deity that wants mass murder.

The argument needs no elaboration—this is the simplest and most elegant formulation: if "God" speaks truth to you, why does He lie to so many other people? Why wouldn't an omniscient and omnibenevolent god tell everybody the same truth in their brains?

We are a species strongly inclined to believe that ego—that the raw feed from brain into consciousness—includes a separate voice called "deity" whereby an external omniscient intelligence speaks its wishes. If that right there isn't the biggest recipe for disaster you've ever heard, you better start writing some fucking books about what you've heard.

Fight the real enemy.