I don’t think religious people murder. I think people are misusing religion to justify their murder. And a lot of Americans understand it that way. Maybe it’s not nuanced enough for some of the thinkers and all that stuff – that’s fine. But that’s exactly what a lot of people like me think. ~George W. Bush

Obviously religious people commit murder.  All kinds of people commit murder.  Some religions have mandated murder, which they have pleasantly called sacrifice or blood-offering, and some have mandated murder for the glory of the deity.  There have been religious people committing what we would call murder since Phineas and before that.  That doesn’t make any of it necessarily right, and certainly most if not all of it is obviously wrong, but to start with the assumption that religious people, generally speaking, don’t murder and murderers cannot be religious is to assume something not in evidence for much of human history.  Religious people who are also virtuous according to our standards of virtue, by definition, do not commit murders, but that is something all together different from what Mr. Bush has said.