Someone has officially "killed in the name of no god" as the old straw man goes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/muslim-student-shootings-north-carolina.html

"Mr. Hicks, appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.

Last month, he posted a photo that said, “Praying is pointless, useless, narcissistic, arrogant, and lazy; just like the imaginary god you pray to.”

Now let me be perfectly clear: I will not be the one to say that atheism makes you violent, or a bad person, because I know that isn't true. I would go so far as to say that until and unless you have found a truth that seems clear to you, that you probably should approach life from an atheistic- or at least agnostic- point of view. I have been an atheist at various points in my life and I find it is the only position that makes sense when you have not personally experienced anything otherwise, and I think most of the atheists I know are actually great people.

What I will point out is how many times I've heard the argument that having a religious belief does make you a bad person, and how many people will plainly and openly insist that an atheist is simply incapable of an irrational act of violence, and that religion is somehow the cause of all the problems in the world which will magically go away when everyone stops believing in God and subscribes to a narrow interpretation of Aristotelian philosophy. Commonly this will come with sound bytes and straw men, like the thought-terminating cliche "Nobody ever killed in the name of No God!"

But here we have proof that this isn't the case. I've made the point before and I've been dismissed for it, but now I have clear evidence to this effect: People who have hateful dispositions will find a reason to hate, no matter what religious or irreligious views they hold. In another reality, this man who killed three Muslims in cold blood could himself have been a member of ISIL, or an Evangelical zealot, but he wasn't. He found another direction for his zeal but he was still a zealot, and it is zealots I hate most of all.

Hateful comments directed toward anyone, religious or irreligious, will be deleted and the user who made them permanently blocked. I will not have a flame war between zealots of different stripes here.