The term "Christian fundamentalist" is an oxymoron as typically used. Jesus was a pacifist, someone who disliked greedy, wealthy people, someone who owned nothing and asked his followers to give away all possessions, and someone who spent time with the poor, sick, and downtrodden.
Politicians, especially American ones, often claim to be Christian, all the while amassing large piles of loot, something Jesus would never have done.
Sometimes violent psychopaths will claim to be Christian, even though the only violence in the New Testament was perpetrated against Christians, not by them.
There have only been a small number of true Christians over the last century, with Mother Teresa being the best example I can conjure up.
We really need to devise a new term for people using religion as a excuse for their violent and/or pilfering ways. The Old Testament was a violent book, though not quite as bad as the Koran which Muslims use to determine their direction in life.
"Old Testament fundamentalist" would be a much more accurate way of describing people like the Tea Party and various psychopaths, perhaps shortened to "old testies," though people might think we were referring to their aged genitals.
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It seems clear that Anders Behring Breivik, the cold-blooded killer in Norway, created a plan to personally kill as many of the ruling elite's children as possible. As media sources reported, the bomb in Oslo could never kill the maximum number of people because Friday was the beginning of the weekend, with many people having already left work, if not already on summer vacation. The bombing was only a ruse to draw the police into the city, allowing Breivik to travel to Utoeya Island for his own private video game of slaughter.
Just as Tim McVeigh was only the most dangerous member of a dangerous gang of fascists, it is likely that Breivik was only the most fanatical thug in a troop which somehow convinced itself that killing children and young adults was justified. The Oslo bomb was very large, as the devastation showed, and it is difficult to believe that one man could have installed it in a vehicle. Given that it was an ammonium nitrate bomb -- BBC News reported that a farm supplier sold six tons of fertilizer to Breivik -- it would have been quite heavy.
It is also possible that Breivik's accomplices assisted with building the bomb, thinking that it was a one-act tragedy, with only Breivik knowing that it was in fact a tragedy in two acts. Media sources reported some people saying that there was a second assassin on the island, but that could have been the assumptions of people fleeing for their lives with no time to take a second look.
Media sources are pondering why Breivik did not kill himself at the conclusion of his acts. The NYT reported that he was captured "by the emergency forces," which means he surrendered rather than committing blue suicide. Perhaps he thinks he will become a martyr for his cause and therefore is better off alive in prison. Tim McVeigh went to his execution without having said a thing and I suspect Breivik will also keep quiet regarding his accomplices.
Breivik's one and only Twitter post was "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests."
A more apt phrasing would be "One selfish, hypocritical butcher can neutralize the good work of 100,000."
Politicians, especially American ones, often claim to be Christian, all the while amassing large piles of loot, something Jesus would never have done.
Sometimes violent psychopaths will claim to be Christian, even though the only violence in the New Testament was perpetrated against Christians, not by them.
There have only been a small number of true Christians over the last century, with Mother Teresa being the best example I can conjure up.
We really need to devise a new term for people using religion as a excuse for their violent and/or pilfering ways. The Old Testament was a violent book, though not quite as bad as the Koran which Muslims use to determine their direction in life.
"Old Testament fundamentalist" would be a much more accurate way of describing people like the Tea Party and various psychopaths, perhaps shortened to "old testies," though people might think we were referring to their aged genitals.
* * * * *
It seems clear that Anders Behring Breivik, the cold-blooded killer in Norway, created a plan to personally kill as many of the ruling elite's children as possible. As media sources reported, the bomb in Oslo could never kill the maximum number of people because Friday was the beginning of the weekend, with many people having already left work, if not already on summer vacation. The bombing was only a ruse to draw the police into the city, allowing Breivik to travel to Utoeya Island for his own private video game of slaughter.
Just as Tim McVeigh was only the most dangerous member of a dangerous gang of fascists, it is likely that Breivik was only the most fanatical thug in a troop which somehow convinced itself that killing children and young adults was justified. The Oslo bomb was very large, as the devastation showed, and it is difficult to believe that one man could have installed it in a vehicle. Given that it was an ammonium nitrate bomb -- BBC News reported that a farm supplier sold six tons of fertilizer to Breivik -- it would have been quite heavy.
It is also possible that Breivik's accomplices assisted with building the bomb, thinking that it was a one-act tragedy, with only Breivik knowing that it was in fact a tragedy in two acts. Media sources reported some people saying that there was a second assassin on the island, but that could have been the assumptions of people fleeing for their lives with no time to take a second look.
Media sources are pondering why Breivik did not kill himself at the conclusion of his acts. The NYT reported that he was captured "by the emergency forces," which means he surrendered rather than committing blue suicide. Perhaps he thinks he will become a martyr for his cause and therefore is better off alive in prison. Tim McVeigh went to his execution without having said a thing and I suspect Breivik will also keep quiet regarding his accomplices.
Breivik's one and only Twitter post was "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests."
A more apt phrasing would be "One selfish, hypocritical butcher can neutralize the good work of 100,000."
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