RE: Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead
October 3, 2017 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2017 at 11:18 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(October 2, 2017 at 9:27 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(October 2, 2017 at 6:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't think Christianity is often a motive for mass shootings...
You've never heard of the "Army of God"?
Aug 5, 2012 Wade Michael Page used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 6 people in a Sikh temple. He was a christian white supremacist who thought Sikhs were Muslims.
May 31, 2009 Scott Roeder -Xtian right anti-abortion terrorist - murdered Dr. George Tiller. Tiller was shot 5 times by Xtian right terrorist Shelly Shannon in 1993, but had survived that attack. Ann Coulter made a joke about Tiller's murder, calling it "termination in the 3rd trimester".
July 27, 2008 Xtian Right Jim David Adkisson killed two and injured 7 by walking into a Unitarian church while they were rehearsing a children's play. He hated liberals and thought that the Unitarians weren't real xtians.
July 29, 1994 Paul Jennings Hill, a member of the Army of God, a known Xtian terrorist group, murdered Dr. John Britton and his bodygaurd, James Barrett. He declared he was doing God's work and is now called a martyr by Army of God members.
July 27, 1996. Eric Rudolph bombed a lesbian bar and an abortion clinic before carrying out the Olympic Park bombinb during the summer Olympics. That bomb killed one and wounded 111 people. The Army of God also reveres him as a martyr.
October 23, 1998. James Charles Kopp, radical xtian terrorist and another Army of God hero, murdered Dr. Barnett Slepian.
1994, John C. Salvi murdered 2 Planned Parenthood receptionists and wounded several other individuals, calling them "infidels who got what they deserved".
November 2015, Robert Lewis Dear killed three at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. He was an evangelistic xtian who admired the Army of God. He was obsessed with the rapture.
-- And this is just scratching the surface. It doesn't mention the current hate groups focused primarily on Muslims, like the Covenant, the Sword, or the Arm of the Lord.
The KKK is still going strong, tho' not as visible as they used to be. Most of their members are xtian. Most Aryan Nation and Skinhead groups are xtian.
Anyone who doesn't think that the xtian church hasn't been responsible for genocides in the past, pogroms, crusades, inquisitions, murder, and torture hasn't studied history.
Of all the attacks and murders that happen each year, you pulled out a handful from the past few decades to prove that Christianity is a primary motive, equating it to Islam? Less time ago than any of that, an atheist shot up a church, and another one killed 2 (or was it 3?) Muslim kids in a parking lot. The Columbine kids were atheist and shot a girl in the face after she admitted to believing in God. The atheist Soviet Union murdered millions of religious folks less than 100 years ago. You see, I can play this game too, and if i wanted to i could scour google and find more... those are just off the top of my head. My point is, you can find instances of people from all groups using their ideology to do awful things, including Christianity. But when attacks like these happen, no one thinks "oh it was probably motivated by Christianity", because it very very seldom is. Calling it a "primary motive" for random civilian attacks now a days is inacurate and uncalled for, especially putting it side by side with Islam. Im not a fan of Bill Maher, but he talks about this fairly often. Equating the 2 IS dishonest.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh