This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
John Earnest, the 19 year old from Poway, California, left behind a 7 page letter outlining his beliefs prior to murdering people up a synagogue.
Earnest is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), an evangelical Calvinist sect of the United Presbyterian Church. He is a student of theology and his carefully crafted letter is filled with basic OPC teachings used to justify his actions. He believes “that Jewish people, guilty in his view of faults ranging from killing Jesus to controlling the media, deserved to die. That his intention to kill Jews would glorify God.”
Some members of the OPC are looking inward to see where their teachings can be understood as meaning that God has replaced Jews as his chosen people with Christians. Others, not so much, writing it off as aberrant.
If Earnest had been a student and adherent of Islam, all hell would be breaking loose. Because his religious war is homegrown, the tendency is to blame the devil, not the teachings of his church.
Why sects of Christianity are not given the same scrutiny as any other religion is rather obvious. It is also very dangerous.
Thanks to Kary for the heads up.
It’s because Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, etc., etc. who commit murder are crazy/evil while Xhristians are merely misguided.
1Yeah, what Barb said, in spades.
2Hey Feebs, pretend those ‘christian’ terrorists are persons of color or Muslims. Serve no knock warrants at every place they might possibly have worshipped since infancy. Then maybe their ‘church’ elders would knock off their stochastic terrorism.
3Sadistic people choose to worship a sadist god made in their image
The judgmental & violent bible bigots oft verify that tendency.
4Amazing number innocent people of color are shot by the blue clad gangbangers for just sitting in their car listening to music, reaching for ID as ordered, helping the mentally ill wandering into traffic and any number of other innocent, or even praiseworthy, actions yet a confessed terrorist who is white gets to arrange where they will be taken in to custody, handled with kid gloves and, in the church massacre event, even gets a stop on the way to jail for a whopper.
5yet according to injustice roberts, and his gaggle of ideological fools, racism does not exist in the US anymore.
Sounds like some members of that “church” wish to forcibly impose their OPC Teachings on the rest of American society by placing their beliefs above American law.
6It’s obvious he was under the influence of Putin and Russia.
7Maybe I’m just not paying close enough attention, but I haven’t heard from any Christians condemning this asshat’s actions the way they always clamor for all Muslims to do when some asshat Muslim shoots up some people. No, they’re just “looking inward” and “trying to understand” how he could have subverted their dogmas. By definition, Evangelicals believe everybody’d be better off if they just believed the right stuff. Shariah law, by any other name, smells just as bad.
8If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
If it condemns Jews like a Nazi and kills Jews like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi.
9I treat ALL religious people the same. As individuals they are judged by their actions, in groups of more than 1, they are judged by their books o’BS, which are hate filled piles of bigotry and violence & intolerance…in other words they are violent aholes not to be trusted!!!
10Never heard of this bunch. Obviously there aren’t many of them around. We have enough hard luck going on with people who insist that there is only one book in the bible – the old Testament.
11Orthodox Presbyterian Church is not of the United Presbyterian Church. It split from it in the 1930s over theology. The United Presbyterian Church of the USA is Modernist and relatively liberal for a protestant denomination while the OPC is fundamentalist. It now accepts same sex marriage.
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