KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The man accused of shooting dead two people and wounding seven others at a church apparently selected the congregation because of its liberal social stance, the city’s police chief said Monday.Chief Sterling Owen said police found a letter in the car of Jim Adkisson, who was tackled and held by members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church after the Sunday morning attack.Owen said Adkisson was apparently frustrated over being out of work and had a “stated hatred of the liberal movement.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25872864/This reminds me of the Bible wars, when there was fighting in the streets over which version of Christianity to force on kids. An excerpt from http://www.atheists.org/publicschools/battle.html
“The road to secularization, however, was not free of difficulties or even violence. In 1844, for instance, at the urging of the local bishop, the Philadelphia school board permitted Roman Catholic children in the public schools to read from their own version of the Bible, the Douay Version. The American Protestant Association was outraged. Mass meetings were held, two Roman Catholic churches were burned, and the rioting was stopped only when the bishop ordered all his churches closed. At the church of St. Philip Neri several people were killed. The church was broken open and only the presence of the militia, the mayor and the governor prevented its being burned to the ground…”
It’s never good when people get killed, but we can be reminded from this incident just how much hate there is in Christianity (even towards other sects of Christianity), and more importantly, just how bad it can STILL get if one SECT OF religion is pushed from the government.
JCC
You keep writing about this gawd thing but nobody here knows what this gawd thing is. Give us an operational definition of gawd or shut up.
JCC
Your silence is telling. Game over. You lose.
As a Unitarian Universalist I up hold the human rights, respect for Nature, and freedom of thought. As a Pantheist I see The Universe & Its Nature as the only source of Divinity which requires no faith, no creed, no dogma, no written texts. Just direct contact with the use of our Nature given senses. As for the guy who went around killing one of my fellow human beings just because of their religious convictions, I feel pity for him, for he is what Buddha calls, Un-enlightened lacking clear view of the big picture. Buddhism is an Atheistic Religion, so is Taoism, & Naturalistic Pantheism, or Monism.