The Bombing Baptist
Okay, so a guy in Wisconsin died when he blew himself up in his apartment.
Benjamin Morrow blew himself up and destroyed his entire apartment complex (nobody else was hurt, but they did lose their homes) while he was making bombs. To kill people.
A newly uncovered search warrant for electronic records says that Morrow had documents “concerning white supremacy groups.” He also had two rifles, a scope, a handgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a bullet-proof helmet and vest.
And while he was making these bomb, he blew himself up. Way to go, Lady Karma.
Here’s his loving obituary …
Benjamin Douglas Morrow, age 28, went home to his Heavenly Father on March 5, 2018. Ben was born in Cedar Rapids, IA on March 13, 1989 to Donald and Grace Morrow. He accepted Jesus as his personal Saviour at the age of four-and-a-half, and was baptized at Victory Baptist Church in Appleton, WI a few years later. Ben graduated from Morrow Home School in 2007, and from Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, FL in May 2013.
He was a Baptist.
Honey, I happen to know some four-and-a-half year olds. They would accept Wile E. Coyote as their personal savior if I promised there would be ice cream afterwards.
I hope Mr. Morrow’s Heavenly Father slapped the crap outta him.
Yeah, I’m mean.
Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.
Remember that old song that went “suicide is dangerous . . .”? It was used on the TV show “MASH”. Well, here is a damn case in point. Just for the helluva it, jobs at a fireworks factory are just as dangerous! And why would anyone work there? Well, why would anyone make a bomb? Not so stable anon so geniuses.
1There are so many incidents of home school killers, there are archives published to the consternation of those who are against public schooling. This link only has a few of them listed http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/homeschool-homicide-database/
The Austin, TX bomber is yet another. In most cases, the most violent also were suffocated in rabid religious environments. Another group is ex-Quiverfull support blog called No Longer Quivering where the stories are chilling.
‘We were told that suffering is a good thing’…” Former home school students blog about abuse, lack of medical care and expelling demons from stuffed animals” https://homeschoolersanonymous.org/
Two women who themselves grew up in homeschooling families, have documented dozens of horrific cases of home school children suffering abuse and being killed on their website http://hsinvisiblechildren.org/
The recent murder of Oregon 5-foster children that were home schooled by the brutally abusive foster mother who drove them off a cliff in N. California is yet another example.
2Well at least he wasn’t a terrorist. Just an aberration.
3Minor correction: the song was “Suicide Is Painless”.
Which I find mildly disturbing.
Also disturbing: the obituary that’s quoted. I can understand not wanting to advertise to the world that your dearly departed was a batcrap crazy, hate-infested sumbitch who was also so damned dumb that he accidentally blowed hisself up real good. But the saccharine, pious tone; the omission of everything about the guy except for his religious connections, though that might literally be all he had in his life; and most of all, the certainty that when his soul departed this earth, it took an upward trajectory; it doesn’t sit well with me.
This miserable wretch’es parents and Pensacola Christian College have a lot to answer for, if their goal was to produce a young man who would faithfully serve God.
4Pensacola is full of hard-core fundamentalist, unaccredited Bible colleges. A friend of mine once said they were Southern Baptist Reactionary.
5To Lunargent: the Quiverfull and their ilk and the abuse inciting religious freak-a-zoid, Michael Pearl, as well as others in his circle loudly profess they advocate home schooling for the specific reason to raise up militant army to serve God by faithfully perpetrating violence.
Who can forget that Christian boot camp for little kids tutoring them how to use weaponry and who to target their violence towards.
6Ya think there is a ‘bombers for Jesus’ group in heaven?????
7All that Christian upbringing, and the Nazis undid it with a webpage? They must have had some convincing gifs – – seig heils, undulating swastika flags, and whatnot.
8Susan o t LC –
Well, I’m not an expert on such things, and don’t know all the code words and phrases. But I did a quick look-see at the Victory Baptist Church’s website, and it appears to be pretty strict, but non-militant. Don’t know about the college – maybe I’ll check later.
9In the original MASH movie, “Painless” was also the nickname of the unit’s dentist, whom the bureaucracy mistakenly listed as dead, who took the “black pill” thinking he was committing suicide, who was born again after an, unhum, politically incorrect event.
A comedy, but filled with themes about the absurdity of war.
Baptist bomber boy wouldn’t have understood it.
10The fanatically religious home schooled Austin bomber was also reported in the news for having been sent to Christian survivalist boot camp where the kids were taught how to use weapons. One girl who was at that boot camp said “I don’t remember them teaching us how to build bombs” Am pretty sure the average person would remember if the did or didn’t.
11Too many religiously home-schooled kids grow up in an echo chamber, without contact with people different from themselves. If their parents are bigots, or hateful, or xenophobic, what else do the kids know? Add a heaping helping of authoritarianism and a webpage or two of Nazi propaganda, and you have the kind of kid who goes to Christian schools his whole life, but blows himself up making bombs to kill people not like him.
12When Bush, Jr. was president and the theocrats thought they had a good chance of taking over the US, they referred to our public schools as “government schools.”
The theocrats are still in there pitching, but I think societal trends are against them.
13There was a moment when my number one son was very young that my little bride and I decided, given his behindedness, that we would home school. It took about 30 seconds with a home school group in west Dallas county to undo that decision. We envisioned a Jefferson-esque education. What we found with available curriculum circa 1990 was indoctrination. We are each cradle Methodists, but this “Christian curriculum” stuff was scary. Short of authoring our own curriculum, we decided to involve ourselves in the local ISD and befriend teachers to influence our children’s education in the direction we wanted.
14Hoist on his own petard. That seems fair.
15Lunargent:
16“Saccharine, pious tone”.
Yep, that’s something I remember from my Baptist upbringing. The only thing missing from that obit was giving thanks to Jesus that he didn’t embarrass the family by marrying a Catholic girl.
I imagine his family was elated his death wasn’t a suicide, but more like an industrial accident.
17On the other hand,
it is suicide to play with things that go BOOM!
Pensacola Christian has (now) 2 celebrity graduates and remarkably Morrow is not the worse of the 2. The other is Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers
18So it’s the wee hours of the morning and I’m reading Juanita Jean’s post and…
“….Ben graduated from Morrow Home School in 2007, and from Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, FL in May 2013.”
Pensacola Christian College. Pensacola Christian College. Where the hell have I heard that name before…? (Wracks brain…)
Oh, sweet suffering Jewish Jesus and His Holy Taint!!!!!!! It’s THEM!!! It’s HIM!!!!
Remember back to last August in Charlottesville, VA…? Remember the idiot who showed up in with a rebel flag and a vintage rifle slung across the back of his faux-19th century uniform…and met Lara Rogers who was in no mood to take ANY of his shit, he being “Allen Armentrout”, a student from – Pensacola “Christian” College!!
Lara saw him, got into his grill, held her hands inches from his face and rendered proper digital salutes to this “patriot”. For 30-minutes. Only after police officers took Armentrout aside and whispered in his ear did he take the digital hints and leave.
Have some fun, go here, and see the pics of Rogers and ‘patriot’ Armentrout:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1399&bih=838&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=yNvHWoisI8La5gKQ5p2QCQ&q=Armentrout+rogers&oq=Armentrout+rogers&gs_l=psy-ab.3…3848.5405.0.5721.7.7.0.0.0.0.52.313.7.7.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.99…0i5i30k1j0i24k1.0.CuzK69b2I-g
To it’s only credit in the winds of that storm, Pensacola Christian College booted him out before he could begin his senior year.
And if you thought Bob Jones Univ. was a breeding farm for religious crackpots, Pensacola Christian is giving them a run for their money.
One of their famous alumni – Reich-wing Republican Congresswoman and all around crack-pot, Cathy McMorris Rodgers
19@Maggie (1st comment)
The song is actually ” Suicide is Painless ”
Let’s hope not, in this case.
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