Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump.
This is the exact bullshit we could brand someone that follows Islamist ideology with.
The major difference: Islamist groups purposely (as I recall learning in a college level North American religions course taught me) twist actual Islamic ideology while the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.
EDIT: Going to Trump rallies could be equated as the Christian Right version of terrorist training camps.
EDIT 2: My point about describing someone who assassinated people as “religious”, will place a false connotation on a group. It either paints the killer as misguided or followers of that religious faith as bad people. This is what happened with 9/11.
the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.
A less generous interpretation is that they do but don’t care about the parts they disagree with. There’s a lot of cherry picking going on with them, and that totally tracks with being the world’s #4 exporter of cherries.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ have been warning about violent Christian Nationalism for years now. They’ve been the biggest threat to America for a long time now.
Pretending these people aren’t religious nuts doesn’t help anyone.
Islam, just like Christianity, has many different groups that believe the same basic doctrine but disagree on many points. The main splits in Islam (that echo some aspects of the Catholic vs. Protestant split) as Sunni and Shia. Each divides and divides again into small communities centred on one mosque (just as, eg, Protestantism divides and divides down to individual congregations).
The big question is: how do groups of people decide which parts of the religious documents, history and practice are more relevant or even correct?
Some groups are quite ‘secular’ (like the Church of England) while others are quite ‘fundamental’, meaning that they much more strictly follow whatever the group decides are the foundation of the religion.
Is it possible to be able so say which of these groups is right? It seems to me that we have been fighting over this since before records began, so we most definitely do not have a way to do this that any majority agrees with. I don’t think anyone can say:
Islamist groups purposely … twist actual Islamic ideology while the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.
surprised pikachu
/waits for the Right wingers to declare “mental illness”. The only time mental health matters to them.
Of course he was deeply religious and conservative.
That’s in keeping with his conduct.
Ah yes, I believe it’s the 6th commandment “Thou shalt not kill, unless you disagree with the person you’re killing then it’s totally fine”
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Also the next thing Moses does after Mt Sinai is go and genocide an entire nation. Also the previous thing Moses did before Mt Sinai was genocide an entire nation with God-powered finger-lasers
There’s a lot of genocide, and lots of other ugly stuff in the Bible. We really shouldn’t be using it as a guide to build our society.
Carlin’s 2 Commandments:
Always be honest and faithful to the provider of thine nookie.
Try real fuckin’ hard to not kill anyone unless they worship another invisible man than you.
He abided strictly by the 13th commandment: “thou shall not kill those who agree with you”
We must have lost that one somewhere along the way
And he learned nothing but hate from both.
The party of domestic terrorism strikes again
No surprises here.
He was so deeply religious and conservative that he donned a fucking breaking bad mask to do some murder and mischief.
He was a member of New Apostolic Reformation, a Christian terrorist group. A group that is popular with Republicans like house speaker Mike Johnson.
Thou shall not kill?
They still mix fabric and leather in clothing. That was in the Bible more than no killing. They can’t even follow simple clothing restrictions from theor god…
The friend’s name was Shitsherlock, first name No.
I’m sure there’s some passage that instructs stoning people for some trivial fucking reason.
