I'm an atheist, as in I don't believe in the Bible or religious texts, but I know that we as a species know hardly anything about anything, and as a cognitive scientist I know that we have no idea what consciousness is, there is no reason to limit ourselves in speculating what it could be/is capabale of.

I think it is really important to project a feeling of love and warmth when doing this kind of thing - I know it's hard not to feel hateful towards the perpetrators, but hate belongs to them - the only way any of this evil stuff can be brought down is if enough people come together to stand in its way, and people will only come together through love - not like soppy romantic love, but the kind of love that makes you greet each new person with optimism about them and their character, or the type of love that compels you to be kind to strangers or cry about the suffering of people you don't know and will never meet.

I'll join in and hurl my love your way and envision our world as it should be, and could have been, without these monstrous creatures - I imagine it could be a place where every person you happen to meet or bump into in the street is viewed as a potential friend, and not as a potential threat, and communities would be closer together and crime would be less because people would feel supported, there would be enough to go round for everyone to have work and a decent wage, and feeling emoitionally connected to the community would mean there were social and emotional restraints on negative or criminal behaviour. And kids would be safe, and would get to play outside and cllimb trees and learn to be confident and happy kind adults. And all drugs would be legalised, and every workplace would provide a relaxation room in which there is a masseuse and a basket of fluffy kittens.