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RussBLib

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6. I have now read four different stories from different news orgs about this event
Fri May 29, 2015, 04:17 PM
May 2015

...and in none of them does Ritzheimer describe himself as an atheist. I am not saying that an atheist would never do something like Ritzheimer is planning, but I think it is less likely that an atheist would do this than someone steeped in a faith other than Islam.

I just think it's odd that the headlines often read, "Atheist Jon Ritzheimer....." doing this or doing that, but nowhere do they back up the assertion of his being a self-described atheist. Even his Facebook page says nothing about his being an atheist.

As an atheist, I would personally never do such a thing, but I respect the broad spectrum of thought among atheists. I do think it's particularly dick-ish, however.

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