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Originally Posted by Oldglory
Those radical Muslim terrorists don't believe in Christ and there is no epidemic of Christians who commit violent acts against other humans.
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Really?
"Heitman and Hagan identify the
Inquisition,
Crusades,
Wars of Religion and
antisemitism as being "among the most notorious examples of Christian violence".
[SIZE=2][2][/SIZE] To this list, J. Denny Weaver adds, "warrior popes, support for capital punishment, corporal punishment under the guise of 'spare the rod and spoil the child,'
justifications of slavery, world-wide
colonialism in the name of
conversion to Christianity, the systemic violence of
women subjected to men.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence
"Contemporary American Christian terrorism can be motivated by a violent desire to implement a
Reconstructionist or
Dominionist ideology.
[SIZE=2][97][/SIZE] Dominion Theology insists that Christians are called by God to (re)build society on Christian values to subjugate the earth and establish dominion over all things, as a pre-requisite for the second coming of Christ.
[SIZE=2][98][/SIZE] Political violence motivated by dominion theology is a violent extension of the desire to impose a select version of Christianity on other Christians, as well as on non-Christians.
After 1981, members of groups such as the
Army of God began attacking
abortion clinics and
doctors across the United States.
[SIZE=2][99][/SIZE][SIZE=2][100][/SIZE][SIZE=2][101][/SIZE] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by
Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the
Christian Identity and
Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.
[SIZE=2][102][/SIZE] A group called
Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in
Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".
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Eric Robert Rudolph carried out the
Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996, as well as subsequent attacks on an abortion clinic and a
lesbian nightclub.
Michael Barkun, a professor at Syracuse University, considers Rudolph to likely fit the definition of a Christian terrorist. James A. Aho, a professor at Idaho State University, argues that religious considerations inspired Rudolph only in part.
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Terrorism scholar Aref M. Al-Khattar has listed
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA),
Defensive Action, the
Montana Freemen, and some "Christian militia" as groups that "can be placed under the category of far-right-wing terrorism" that "has a religious (Christian) component".
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In 1996 three men—Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Jay Merelle—were charged with two bank robberies and bombings at the banks, a
Spokane newspaper, and a
Planned Parenthood office in
Washington State. The men were anti-Semitic
Christian Identity theorists who believed that God wanted them to carry out violent attacks and that such attacks would hasten the ascendancy of the
Aryan race.
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In 2011, analyst Daryl Johnson of the
United States Department of Homeland Security said that the
Hutaree Christian
militia movement possessed more weapons than the combined weapons holdings of all Islamic terror defendants charged in the US since the
September 11 attacks.
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In 2015, Robert Doggart, a 63 year old mechanical engineer, was indicted for solicitation to commit a civil rights violation by intending to damage or destroy religious property after communicating that he intended to amass weapons to attack a Muslim enclave in
Delaware County, New York.
[SIZE=2][109][/SIZE] Doggart, a member of several private militia groups, communicated to an FBI source in a phone call that he had an
M4 carbine with "500 rounds of ammunition" that he intended to take to the Delaware County enclave, along with a handgun,
molotov cocktails and a machete. The FBI source recorded him saying "if it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds."
[SIZE=2][110][/SIZE] Doggart had previously travelled to a site in
Dover, Tennessee described in chain emails as a "jihadist training camp", and found that the claims were wrong. Doggart pleaded guilty in an April
plea bargain stating he had “willfully and knowingly sent a message in interstate commerce containing a true threat†to injure someone. The plea bargain was struck down by a judge because it did not contain enough facts to constitute a true threat.
[SIZE=2][111][/SIZE][SIZE=2][112][/SIZE] Doggart stood as an independent candidate in
Tennessee's 4th congressional district, losing with 6.4% of the vote.
[SIZE=2][113][/SIZE] He has a number of degrees from a
degree mill and an ordination from an
ordination mill. Various Muslim groups have declared Doggart a terrorist, though none of the charges against him are terrorism related.
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In November 2015, Robert Lewis Dear killed
three and injured nine at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
[SIZE=2][118][/SIZE] Dear voiced on several occasions his support for radical Christian views and interpretations of the Bible, and praised people who attacked abortion providers, saying they were doing "God's work." He also described members of the Army of God, a loosely organized group of anti-abortion Christian extremists that has claimed responsibility for a number of killings and bombings, as heroes.
[SIZE=2][119][/SIZE] In May 1991, Dear was arrested and convicted in Charleston, for the unlawful carrying of a "
long blade knife" and illegal possession of a loaded gun.
[SIZE=2][120][/SIZE] A woman who was married to Dear from 1985 to 1993 told NBC News that Dear had targeted a Planned Parenthood clinic before, by putting glue on its locks, and had a history of violent behavior. In the court document for their 1993 divorce, his ex-wife said, "He claims to be a
Christian and is extremely
evangelistic, but does not follow the
Bible in his actions. He says that as long as he believes he will be
saved, he can do whatever he pleases. He is obsessed with
the world coming to an end.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Christian Atrocities | Victims of Christianity | Catholic Church Inquisition | Crusades
"In the spring of 2013, Middle East historian Juan Cole decided to compare the body counts between violence committed by Christians and that committed by Muslims in the 20th century. He found that Muslim violence has claimed the lives of around 2 million people, mostly during the Iran-Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan, while violence by Christians claimed the lives of close to 100 million people."
Despite Wingnut Freakout, Obama Is Right: Christian Violence Is Just as Bad as Muslim Violence | Alternet
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