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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Thanks Be to God and Christian Terrorists

Monday January 12, 2004
We may hear quite a lot about the government's fight against Muslim terrorists, but what about Christian terrorists? There was a time that three of the FBI's top ten most wanted criminals were antiabortion terrorists - Christians, one and all, committing acts of terrorism in an effort to promote their religious beliefs. Why have they dropped off the radar?

That was the subject of a Salon article a few weeks ago, and Chuck Spingola has responded on the Army of God website:

The federal department of justice’s “war on terrorism” will not only be waged against the Muslims nations but also Christian terrorists in our homeland. One might ask what do the Muslims and Christians have in common? The Holy Bible and Koran both condemn baby murder and homosexuality as capital crimes. The radical elements of both religions are willing to do more than talk to resist the societal promotion of both these capital crimes. The foreign terrorists (Muslim) resist the imposition of the United States/United Nations charter, which promotes “population control”(abortion) and “diversity”(homosexuality), while the Christian/domestic terrorist simply resists the “law” of the land, which promotes and often subsidizes abortion and homosexuality.
As cream rising to the top of the milk, so the Christian terrorist rises above the huddled masses of churchgoers and the many voices which denounce their violent attempts to defend the innocent from they’re murderous assailants. ... [L]et us praise God Almighty for the brave Christian that flat out terrorizes the wicked. Like the terrified masses praying for death rather than face the wrath of the Lamb, let us pray that all the politicians, judges, and those who otherwise assisted the baby butchers will be terrified to death before tomorrow’s baby killing begins. Shall we?

There are a lot of similarities between Muslim and Christian extremists - but why is it that some Christians only criticize Islam as being a "religion of violence"? Perhaps because the connections between those Christians and the Christian terrorists are so close that it would be unwise to draw any attention to it, so it's better just to pretend that only Islam is violent.

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September 28, 2006 at 11:05 pm
(1) Will says:

How typical to use ONE instance to compare Christianity to Islam in the sense of terrorism. I don’t agree with what they’ve done to abortion clinics but I’d like to know how you felt about the 100’s of church’s burned in the South over the past 30 or so years.

It’s easy to pick out a bad apple and relate the group to it, but if you ever notice Christians WILL condemn those who are in the wrong…unlike Islam. Islam praises those who kill! So a doctor and some nurses were killed…that’s bad but not as bad as 3000 in one DAY..unprovoked…no real reason for it…just hated us…hated you..yes you. The muslims are coming for everyone and if you think hiding behind atheism will save you…get ready to bow to the god of the muslims…or die refusing. That my friend, is terrorism. Hence the Opera in Germany being canceled…what about the Danish Cartoonists…they will take away your free speech!

September 29, 2006 at 6:22 am
(2) atheism says:

How typical to use ONE instance to compare Christianity to Islam in the sense of terrorism.

There are lots of examples of Christian terrorism against abortion clinics and workers.

It’s easy to pick out a bad apple and relate the group to it, but if you ever notice Christians WILL condemn those who are in the wrong…unlike Islam.

Not always. Many Christians support the unambiguous moral evil of authorizing the government to torture and abuse detainees, giving the president unreviewable power to declare people as “unlawful combatants,” use secret and coerced evidence in trials, etc.

Islam praises those who kill!

Some do, some don’t. It’s wrong and immoral to generalize about all Muslims.

Hence the Opera in Germany being canceled…what about the Danish Cartoonists…they will take away your free speech!

What about Madonna’s crucifixion scene in her concert? All the conservatives who shouted in defense of the Danish cartoons were silent when she was attacked. She received kidnapping threats for her children and a priest phoned in a bomb threat. Many Christians also advocate the elimination of free speech when there religion is being criticized.

August 17, 2007 at 11:20 am
(3) Jay says:

You don’t understand do you? It’s like law enforcement teaching that the Founding Fathers were terrorists- they were fighting for our very freedom, that should come without contract.

A true “Christian” would never do these things. Anybody who reads the bible will understand the very simple concept that a Christian is to love their neighbors, and that killing is one of the most serious of sins.

Now, I understand there are “terrorist” verses in the OLD testament, but many of them are not only figurative (such as Children being slayed before God’s eyes), but also are nullified by verses in the New Testament.

And if you’ve read islam, you’ll also understand that it’s alright to lie, and to kill infidels. “Kill them when they turn their backs to you” is similar to a verse in the kuran (Q’uran, Quran, however you’d wish to spell it). Some interpet this as defensive, which is indeed what much of it is, but the extremist and many religious leaders interpet it as a right to kill anybody with a different religion. Same goes for the Crusaders and such, claiming to be Christian but in truth their not.

Don’t associate Christians that want to take away rights in the defense of their religion, or kill in the name of God as Christians though- in that context it’s only to further their goals, whether or not they claim to be “Christians”

October 8, 2007 at 2:46 pm
(4) John Hanks says:

Christians are crooks and their suckers. They like to think they are special, but they are weak live everyone else.

October 11, 2007 at 3:47 pm
(5) DamnRight says:

How can you be sure those verses in the Q’uran aren’t figurative?

September 14, 2008 at 9:52 am
(6) Shiko says:

Quran never said such thing as: “Kill them when they turn their backs to you”
Quran stands on the Side of human rights. Go and read Quran please.
its only mentioned that any body who is trying to offend islam and fight aginst muslims is to be killed. i think its an allowed right of defence.
Don’t associate Muslims that want to take away rights in the defense of their religion, or kill in the name of God just as Muslims though- in that context it’s only to further their goals, whether or not they claim to be “Muslims”. your word can be applied here too, Jay

November 28, 2008 at 1:07 am
(7) Rex says:

Christians have killed more then any other religion. Christians are the terrorists, we should all stay as far away from them as possible.

February 3, 2009 at 12:56 pm
(8) arnold801 says:

the two faiths ie christians and muslims have the fight amongst themselves which is creating horrific incidencs in the world trying to prove other wrong. I live in north east India infested with both muslims and christians. muslims are stuck to their basic education where else christians use their intellectual. The christians have divided the people of n.e India so much that the call one another Tribal and non tribal, earlier nothint of such word existited. The christians covert the innocent villagers teach them them tribal word then hand them all the techniques of terriosim and ask them to drift apart by land etc create District council , inner line permit, new state the a country.Seems like divide and rule policy. All the tribals get guns and they are anti hindi speaking people cant undersatand why, wats wrong in Hindi coz it seems they want to make English the universal language.

March 29, 2009 at 4:16 pm
(9) Anna says:

a few rogue muslims killed off 3,000 on 9/11 and yet mr. christianity - Bush killed off a million Iraqis ALL BASED ON LIES. Yes, Mr. christian Bush also condones torture and theft and occupation of other people’s land and resources. So some rogue muslims killed 3,000 compared to christians over a million plus systematic torture - I think the numbers speak for themselves. Additionally, it wasn’t muslims who killed 6 million jews - yes it was the german christians. it wasn’t muslims who killed over 200,000 bosnians - oh wait the bosnians were muslims who were killed off by serbian CHRISTIANS!. okay what else. it wasn’t muslims who killed off 2 million native americans - haha! it was european christians. there are so many other examples, but i’ll just tire of putting it all down. look up history - for a thousand years, christians, muslims and jews lived in relative peace in muslim lands under muslim rule - but this generation knows nothing about history. this generation doesn’t even practice true christianity. i beg to differ that invading and occupying a country that had nothing to do with attacking the US on 9/11 is a very christian thing to do. but to “christians” of america, all they know is violence. that’s what this country was founded on! genocide and theft.

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