Foxhole Atheist Murder Mystery

‘course he had to shoot first, since the athiest didn’t have  the god given morals, and might have shot him!

There’s still a lot unknown.
The soldier went missing in 2005, but the death is estimated as 2007?
There must be some context in which the dead guy would (allegedly) proclaim his disbelief and reach for his gun. Odd.
That the shooter did not report the incident, but instead buried the body does not make me want to believe whatever he may have to say about the circumstance of the shooting.
 

For someone to shoot first when someone else goes for their gun, the shooter would have had to have a gun already ready and likely already pointing at the victim.

Han Solo shot first!

The fact that it took so long for this to come out really makes the testimony of the accused untrustworthy. Of course, it’s easy to say, “He’s an atheist, and he reached for his gun,” since most people are intolerant and would assume that the atheist is the instigator. Why was the gun being reached for? When did Ramirez say he was an atheist?  

The real issue here is that on human being murdered another. Labeling it a hate-crime doesn’t change anything, since it’s first-degree murder already, and Ramirez won’t be getting out for the rest of his life. 

I lived 5 miles from this shit hole town for almost 9 years. It is a disgusting place with frightened narrow minded people. My main worry is if the deceased has any chance of justice. Murdering and hiding the body of an atheist would be considered justified by many of the residents of that county. I can see the murderer getting away with it by making sure the jury knows the victim was an atheist.

 I do wish there was a “note it as a hate crime” bit in the course of the prosecution.  I do understand how and why the law was constructed that way, but it would be… not ‘good’, but ‘helpful’ to make it clear that yes, there is anti-atheist violence.  It’s not common, at all, but it does occur.

 Ooh, this is fun, let me play! I think it was Professor Plum, in the study, with the wrench!

Friendly fire my ass!!!

To anyone who has actually been in a foxhole, faced small arms fire, incoming IDF or a real threat of IEDs that sounds fucking ridiculous.  You don’t sit around and swap war stories because that’s just not shit you want to talk about.  Even if you do the faith, or lack thereof, of the people with you has nothing to do with it.  The last thing you’re going to find in a war is god, whether you believe or not.

I hate the assumption that soldiers are mindless god freaks who drink, clean their guns and kill without compunction.

Here’s the reality: I’m a current infantryman and my job is to kill people and get killed.  That’s what we do.  I’m also an atheist, and plenty of my fellow infantrymen know it and do you know how much it matters now, or how much it mattered in Iraq?  Not at all.  You know what did matter?  The guy next to you.  No one who’s been through that shit would kill someone else who’s been through the same shit over a religious belief.  It.  Just.  Doesn’t.  Matter.

And, seriously, why the hell are your two theoretical dudes just sitting around with guns?  Really?  Is that how you picture the people who are ready and willing to give their lives for your freedoms?  A bunch of angry drunks who just sit around with their guns waiting for an excuse to blast somebody?

I’ve been gone for awhile because I’ve been in training, but now that I’m back I would like to respond to this, even though it’s a few weeks old.

To Anonymous Atheist and the two people who “liked” the comment, you’re idiots. Soldiers don’t kill other soldiers because of their beliefs.  It’s offensive to even imply that.

We sit back and give our lives, our futures, our relationships, and our innocence to fight for the freedoms that this country stands for and then people go off and suggest that we’re willing and ready to kill each other for something as pointless as religion.

Here’s the reality of the situation: your religion doesn’t matter at all on the battlefield.  You don’t care what the person next to you believes because they’re your brother in arms.  You fight for them, whatever they believe, you fight to keep them alive and when they die for whatever reason you carry that with you.  My company knows that I’m an atheist.  I’m not the only atheist.  We also have a Muslim, agnostics, all manner of x-ians and a Wiccan.  We even have a Buddhist.  You know who cares about this shit?  Not a damned one of us.  We’re infantrymen, and as far as we’re concerned you can believe that the whole of existence is on a turd floating in the toilet of some intergalactic clown college so long as you can do your job right.