My hypocrisy, revealed

So, earlier I posted a video from fox news, calling foul on their hypocrisy regarding blaming video games for people’s violence, but not doing the same when it comes to people killing in the name of religion.

A few days ago I was debating/taking with Natasha and Rando regarding religious vs. atheist people, and how living in such a Christian country made me feel out of place and discriminated against. Granted, I haven’t ever suffered directly from any sort of religious discrimination, but if you actually think that America’s stereotype for atheists isn’t that we’re morally bankrupt and generally all-around evil, then you’re wrong. To be fair, I wasn’t really ‘out’ with my atheism until coming to MIT, where I was finally in the majority. Back home, the demographic is overwhelmingly Catholic, and they take it rather seriously, so you can imagine why I wasn’t shouting about it. To this day I dont plan on ever telling my grandma about it, she’d more than likely disown me.

Anyways, so, I used the example of that guy who killed Tiller, the abortionist doctor, in a church as an example of religion not making people better people, or making people crazy, I am not exactly sure. I want to apologize for this. I have always been vehemently against people blaming their actions on various media, especially video games, but I hadn’t considered religious nuts in that same category. I hadn’t considered the distinction between doing something because of religion, and doing something in the name of religion. Really, you can replace the word ‘religion’  with anything you want, same thing.
I read this paper this previous term, Henry Jenkins’ “The War between Effect and Meaning”

http://web.mit.edu/cms/faculty/WarEffectMeaning.htm

The paper focuses on the case of video games, but if its something you’re interested in, I recommend reading it.

The point is, I forgot what I believed in for the sake of trying to make a point. It was a bad thing for me to do, and I’m sorry.