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I am a Christian. The fact you are repeating bs does not remove the fact it is BS. Christianity has two testaments.
I didn't say Christianity didn't have 2 testaments. What I said was that the Old Testament was the first will of God. When he realized that the laws of Moses were not going to provide any salvation for these people who had free will, he decided it was time to bring out Jesus Christ who would die for their sins as long as they accepted him. That is the NEW Testament. It clearly states that they do not have to follow the laws in the Old Testament, only the NEW one. The NEW Testament has done away with some (ie: keeping the Sabbath - as a Christian, you do not keep the Sabbath), and kept some of the old ones: do not steal, do not lie, etc.
Christians are NOT required to follow any of the laws in the Old Testament because God gave them a NEW Testament. According to Jesus, Jesus IS God. And that is why the Jews killed him - because he claimed to be God.
Maybe you should pay closer attention next Sunday.
I have the full video and watched it to understand how it happened and what not to do in those situations. I had people I knew or knew of present or close to the following high profile mass shootings :
-Acquaintance of my friend died in the Utoya mass shooting in 2011
-Half sister who lives in LA arrived in downtown Santa Barbara right around the time of the 2014 mass shooting
-Acquaintance worked security at the Bataclan and was right in the middle of it. He later was honored for saving many lives by going in and out to get people out through the emergency exit
-Friend of friends died in the mosque shooting in Quebec in 2017
I have studied this thing a bit. I noticed that almost all mass shootings occur within confined spaces : mall, movie theater, tramway (see today's event in Utrecht, a city I visited before), class, place of worship, etc. There are exceptions to this rule but statistically you are safer on the street or on the road. It's when you enter a closed space that danger levels rise.
Many people at the first mosque simply cowered and tried to use each other as shields. They all died but a few, massed against a wall. Playing dead will not work when the shooter is methodical like in Christchurch or Utoya, they made sure to come back and double tap everybody. The majority of those who ran lived. That's what you need to do. Run as soon as you can. Maybe you will have to wait for an opportunity. The recurring pattern in these events is that those who remain in place get shot (hidden behind tables, pillars, bodies), those who run get away, and almost no one fights back. When they do, the shooting stops. Rushing the shooter is the best strategy but it needs to be done as a group.
The challenge is to be able recognize that there is a mass shooting in the first place. Even if you hear gunshots, or see someone with a gun, you will logically assume someone is being targeted for whatever reason. In the current context where we are counting down the days to the next mass killing, we should assume that a person walking openly with a firearm in hand (not holstered) outside of hunting areas is a potential mass shooter, same if you hear gunshots. You best believe there is a mass shooting going on and you are the next target. Carry legally if you can. I know for a fact that some people in Europe and elsewhere now carry regardless of the legality of it. Just in case.
So people should go to prison for sharing the 911 plane crashes. That's pretty twisted.
You don't see people begging for their lives and watch bullets enter their body in videos of 9/11. Yes, you see broad implications of death - the explosions, people jumping from buildings, buildings collapsing - but you don't see their moment of death. You can't see their eyes as they die or their brain and other body parts splattering across the floor.
Yessir, thank you for verifying that the deaths of over 100 Christians at the hands of Muslim extremists is not as important as the deaths of 50 Muslims at the hand of a non-Muslim crackpot.
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