Quote Originally Posted by Enoch the Red View Post
The fact that more Muslims than Westerners are killed every year by Islamic terrorist is somehow a comforting thought for you? Isn't that actually fairly telling? Weren't you just saying that terrorism isn't US-centric?
It's reality, and reality is rarely "comforting".

Do you really believe Koresh was a terrorist now? How many public places did he or his followers bomb or shoot up? How many civilians did he kill or threaten? Who did he hold hostage? He was likely mentally unstable and an egomaniac, possibly guilty of statutory rape, and without a doubt was a manipulative piece of human excrement, but a terrorist? Pull the other one.
Yes, I'd call him a domestic terrorist. He recruited vulnerable civilians and brainwashed (indoctrinated) them, which led to a threatening/hostage situation. Adult parents were willing to let him screw (rape) their minor children, because they believed it was having sex with God or Jesus or the Holy Spirit. He built a weapons arsenal to keep the authorities away, taught his followers to consider authorities as "infidel" enemies, and how to fight them with weapons/force for the Kingdom of God.

Do you believe Adam Lanza had spiritual or ideological motivations for what he did?
Since he's deceased, there's no way to explore or confirm what was going on in his mind. My guess is he felt driven by ideas, impulses, and motivations that were profoundly disconnected from reality. And he didn't have any ballast or counter-force to bring him back to balance. Harder yet to figure out what was going on in his mother's mind, the most important person in his life, since he killed her first.

Either way, it appears that mental illness, attached stigmas, and denial were the main forces behind his heinous acts. Those are definitely "deficits". What do you think was behind his motivations?