Posted on 01/09/2015 11:08:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This. The fact of the matter is that Muslims who kill in the name of their religion follow their religion's founder, Mohammed. Christians do not.
You’re right. I posted before reading their particular definition of “Christian extremist”, and assumed it was the usual one (”very strict”, “fundamentalist”, etc.)
Mea culpa.
Second...And would most Muslim people in the world do that or condone that? No."
Do you have a source on that, Bill Maher?
Westboro Baptist Church consists of people who’re related to the nutjob leader (biologically or by marriage), or who work for him or are otherwise financially dependent. Last I checked, there hadn’t been more than 20-30 members at any one time.
Baptists are not much for the whole denomination thing, but insofar as there’s an official Baptist organization (a Southern Baptist yearly convention, I think it is), it’s repudiated Westboro Baptist. And of course plenty of other Christians have condemned them as well.
Maybe not, but Eric Rudolph wasn’t a Christian, either.
“Many good people continue to send me money and books,” Rudolph writes in an undated letter [to his mother]. “Most of them have, of course, an agenda; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. I suppose the assumption is made that because I’m in here I must be a ‘sinner’ in need of salvation, and they would be glad to sell me a ticket to heaven, hawking this salvation like peanuts at a ballgame. I do appreciate their charity, but I could really do without the condescension. They have been so nice I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible.”
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-05-rudolph-cover-partone_x.htm
Maybe what has been going on in the past year is waking up more Americans in regards to the true nature of Islam.
Eric Rudolph was not so easy to catch, and the FBI, Reno and the ATF had to go home, and it was a year later he came out of the woods for food, and a guy turned him in, when he was digging in the Store trash.
The AG RENO and gov’t agencies spent millions setting up in Murphy and intimidating the people there, it was quite a site. That is a cold area in the winter and I think he finally gave up intentionally. I have friends originally from there.
Well, I certainly wouldn’t consider him to be any kind of mainstream Christian or in good standing with the Lord (unless he’s repented and I never heard about it).
Still, he seems to see himself as a believer of some sort though, and makes reference to God and the Bible in his statements and writings. For example, in that quote you posted he says:
“I suppose the assumption is made that because I’m in here I must be a ‘sinner’ in need of salvation...”
Which implies that he doesn’t consider himself a sinner in need of salvation, which can be read one of two ways. Either he is not a sinner in need of salvation because he doesn’t believe in that sort of thing, or because he believes that he already is saved.
also:
“I do appreciate their charity, but I could really do without the condescension.”
He views their outreach as charitable, but also condescending. Condescension implies he sees them as having an attitude of superiority, or patronizing him. This could also be interpreted two different ways, as an atheist who doesn’t welcome Christian ministry might feel patronized by the very notion that they need saving, while someone who sees themselves as already saved might feel patronized by someone telling him that he needs their help to be saved.
The Nietzche remark, though, does come off as not something a Christian would say, or at least not something they would be proud off.
Yeah, that was quite a story about how he was captured. I believe it was a rookie local cop who had never made any major arrests before who ended up nabbing him. Rudolph got careless in his scrounging for food, and didn’t wait for the guy to pass by on his nightly patrol, so he was cornered when the cop showed up and just surrendered. The cop didn’t have a clue who he was, he just thought he caught a vagrant stealing from dumpsters!
That is an isolated area, except for the town, and not so popular back then.....I think he may have been sick too. It was cold and he probably was tired of running and being isolated. He gave them quite a run.
Yeah, I think he was relieved to be captured, after living like a hermit out in the woods for years.
It’s interesting how he survived. He had survival skills, and he did “live off the land” a bit, but he ended up relying on scavenging and stealing from “civilization” for most of his needs, because it was so much easier.
Oh, and the two things he prized most that he scavenged from town? Cigarette butts and reading material. He was pretty much doing time as a prisoner out in the woods as it was, so no wonder.
I think a lot of old timers left him alone and didn’t tell what they knew. Some of those homes in woods are summer homes for Floridians or those from hotter states.
How about the person who shot an abortionist?
Violent and pro-choice........
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