Speak for yourself and please watch the video.

@DavidLaDeau . . I did watch. . . . This child was told to do this. Those people should go to jail for murder.

Sad he was so fucked by others that he committed suicide.

Mao, Stalin, Hitler, ALL thought they were doing something they believed in.

AND:::: millions of people die every year who are innocent. I got little empathy for only one.

@Jacar It looks like we are on the same page more than it appeared. I am glad you did watch the video I am sorry I thought you did not. I have gotten many negative comments that came from people who simply commented on the title, it is very common. I am also sad that Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were obviously in some way mentally ill and for all of their victims. They were all humans. I do not like or approve of horrable actions. I am sorry that people for what ever reason commited bad actions. In this case religion poisioned Johns brain.

It is well known among Bible Scholars that the 16th chapter of Mark is spurious. However, Mark 16:15 is similar to Matthew 28:19.....but this too is a spurious verse....When the Roman Catholic Church was "keeper" of the NT Scriptures the Monks were monkeying with the text.

@nicknotes Perhaps they are but then there's:

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be [a]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” - Acts 1:8.

The guy believed he was following a prime directive from Christ.

@brentan It was unfotrinate for everyone that he believed any of it.

Religious delusions are common. @brentan

@nicknotes Yes indeed. I was that soldier!

Would you it be comical if it was your brother, father or son?

@DavidLaDeau not to me, but to others, yes

We must not conflate ones actions no matter how horrable with humanity. We do not hate the person that has the cancer we hate the cancer. He was infected with religion. I would hope that you would feel sad that he was.

Thank you, there are very few that sem to understand what I was getting to.

What part of he was infected by the poisonous infection of religion do people not understand. He did wrong, It was due to religion. It is sad he was infected in the first place.

I really hope you did not watch the video and then made this comment. I would be very embarrised if I had.

Yes and they were wrong too. I did make a point of stateing that he was wrong. Religion is the thing to hate here.

I would suggest actually watching the video before making embarrising comments about the content that you did not see.

Evidently he was so blinded by faith in his non existant god that he thought that it would all work out. Is that not sad?

We all have been bad drivers, I wish harm on on one.

@DavidLaDeau With all due respect, I think that position is a cop out. Someone who is actively harming others needs to be stopped. I wish this sap hadn't brainwashed himself into thinking that his stupid, reprehensible and potentially lethal actions weren't virtuous, but once he did, he was a menace. Our society would have locked him up; the Andaman islanders had their own system, which was possibly more humane in the end, and I'm not crying over it. Or maybe you're just saying that people should be nicer on social media?

@Gareth It is a cop out to be sad that he attempted to do something horrable? It is a cop out to be sad that he did have to be stopped. It is a cop out to hate the religion that causes people to do terrable things in the name of religion. No I don't think so. I am angry at him also. I am angry that he was infected with religion in the first place, Thank You Sir.

Thank you for a completely thoughful response. You hit all the right points. I am not trying to justify his wrong doing. He was wrong, I say so in my video. You were right to recognize that he was a human and wrong due to religion. I commend YOU! Many do not seperate the religious dogma from the human. Kudos!

The response here seems to lack the distinction of religion verses human beings. I hate what religion does to people, but I still love the people.

@DavidLaDeau John Donne "If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee"
Whist I appreciate Donnes sentiments here. Some mens deaths diminishes me less than others. As I type this thousands of children are starving to death in Yemen. Yet this idiot claims the news and our thoughts. Those children did not seek starvation or court disaster. They are simply there. Where was his love of god if he could spend all that time and money to go to that island and not give to them? Yet this would have been a truly selfless act. No headlines, no glory, he would not have been "the man". Just a good simple soul doing right. Obviously not good enough for this arrogant, vain and stupid young man.

@273kelvin Yep all you say is true. I could have been him very easily. I was indoctrinated at birth,and truely believed. I was a fundamentalist wacko. This guy was a wacko. It was the posion of religion that compelled him to do so. It is very sad, He potentially hurt other people. He was sick. Do you not have any compassion for a human being that has been so mentally disturbed by religion?

@DavidLaDeau How far would you extend this? Okay lets take to extremes. Would you have compassion for an SS guard executed when the allies liberated his camp? He too was indoctrinated. He too was doing what he thought was right.

@273kelvin Yes I would. I believe my grandfather was one. Many did not have a choice.They did waht they had to do or rish their entire families being killed. They justified the unjustifiable in order to survive. It was wrong and they may have done horrable things. My grandfather immigrated to America and was indeed a very good man. If he did do horrific things he did not do them out side of that enviroment. It was not him but the culture that made him do it(if he did anything bad at all.) We are humans. I do not see why there is a difficulty understanding that religion posions everything.

@DavidLaDeau You may know this joke already but anyway here goes.
A very pious man get a warning one morning on TV that the local dam is going to burst and all that live in its path should evacuate. He thinks to himself "I am a pious man and god will save me" The warning is repeated on radio yet again he thinks "I am a pious man and god will save me". The police come to his house and tell him to get out and they will give him a lift if he needs it. He replies "I am a pious man and god will save me". The dam breaks and water is up to his bedroom window. A rescue boat cames to take him but again he says "I am a pious man and god will save me". The water reaches to the roof where he is trapped but a helicopter arrives to winch him to safety. Yet still he declines their offer saying "I am a pious man and god will save me"....He drowns. When he gets to heaven he asks god "Why did you not save me?" God says "You fucking idiot. I sent you warnings on the TV and radio. I sent a police car, a boat and a fucking helicopter! Why did you not listen?"
Even the religious believe in free will. Your grandfather made choices as did that young man. If they are wrong, motivated by self interest or preservation. Then they should live with the consequences. They do not deserve our sympathy or compassion. better to save that for the more deserving.

@DavidLaDeau the human being in this case was fine with committing genocide in the name of his religion. So no, you don't get to call the people pointing out how reprehensible his actions were "bad people". What a load of B.S.

@OpposingOpposum Again you still miss the point. I would not call them "bad People" only indicate their bad behavior. They are good people with good reason to be angry as I am, Sometimes anger produces inappropiate responses.

@DavidLaDeau So would it be "bad behaviour" to think ill of the twin tower terrorists? They too had god on their side. They too were indoctrinated into the cause. They too made many many conscious actions toward that end and they too are not indicative of the vast majority who follow the same religion but choose to live their lives in peace, harming so one.
So should I feel sympathy for the Manchester bomber who very nearly killed my daughters friend? How far does this extend? Serial killers, gang bangers, sadistic child murderers? The problem is that although you have ditched the theory of god. You seem to still have the christian ethics. A lordable residue you may think but let me tell you. There are reasons that nearly all christians are hypocrites. IT DOES NOT WORK . You turn the other cheek and you will get walked over. Plus you give rights and condone actions of people who should not have those rights or even tacit approval.
The judge of ethical behaviour is often "What if everybody did it?" Whilst I normally dislike hard and fast rules let us apply it here. Atm that young man is (imho rightly) condemned by society for gross stupidity and religious arrogance. So lets pretend that you win the day and we all say "Ah poor soul". There will undoubtedly be (as there probably are some now) many more who will take it further and look upon him as a martyr. Other young men and women may well seek to emulate him. After all he died doing gods work didnt he?. Just as each suicide bomber goes into the myth of legend. Each christian martyr that follows may likely do the same. What price those Indian lives then? Okay not those island people but what of the christian nutters who vandalised ancient Mayan temples in Peru? Do they deserve our sympathy or condemnation?.... No! there is a reason we condemn, because it was wrong!
Try this, post a similar youtube winge about the 9/11 hijackers and see if anyone gives you anything but abuse. Ah well thats different because they were brown skinned and the people who died were white and our people? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. It is a shame that I do not believe in hell because all those zealots can go there and rot for all care. They won't get any big salty tears out of me.

I hate the religion and love humans. There is a big difference here between the two.

@DavidLaDeau I love humans too I just have more love to the entire population of the island at risk, than this fool! He was warned and carried on regardless, his actions may still lead to the decimation of a unique human population if not their complete extinction!

@Pete66 Yep it was his beliefs in religion that compelled him to do horrific things.

@DavidLaDeau no. It was his desire for glory and personal gain that led him to risk others lives. This is about his failings as a person, not his religion.

@OpposingOpposum Can you demnostrate how you know this to be true? I could be, but usually Chistians approach these type of things from a position of servitude. How do we determine it was a desire for glory only and not to serve his non-existant God? What ever the failings were if it were not for religion he would have never gone to spread his religion.

I agree. I would also like to say there is a big difference between hating religion and hating human beings. That was my point here.

Yep. Holier than thou, ignoring the fact that this man intended to commit genocide(in one sense or another) and insistent that we "feel bad for" and therefore tolerate bad actors because of their beliefs. He was a grown man with all his faculties intact. He chose to carry out an action that could have had catastrophic effects for others. He was responsible for his own actions and his own death.
Pointing out hypocrisy and speaking out against people who commit terrible acts in the name of their beliefs doesn't make atheists "insensitive". We simply aren't blinded by the story religion tries to tell about itself any more. I refuse to be shamed into silence by some twit who has a problem with me not being sympathetic to a genocidal idiot.