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More details; victim is recovering: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/microsoft-employee-improvin...

Looking at his website it seems like the attacker was a mental break looking for a place to happen. His entire about me was the embodiment of the "I am an atheist" meme.

Feel bad for the victim, couldn't imagine just going about my day and then getting stabbed out of nowhere.

Of course, that meme exists because there's plenty of "I am very smart" self-proclaimed atheists out there that don't run amok like this guy apparently did.

I once read that 2% of prisoners in the US are atheists. Without forgiveness it seems harder to take other peoples lives.

Wonder how much of that is socioeconomic. Feel like most atheists are middle class and up.

Also wondering how many of them were atheist going in and found religion. Feel like prison probably incentives religion.

@dang - sorry to ask this, but the KIRO link is probably better here.

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