" " . . . it's an act of love to kill evil people who seek to kill Americans,"

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2106.shtml


Beware the Dominionist "love bomb"

During a recent address to the Good Shepherd Baptists in Terre Haute Indiana, Col. J. Tyler Ryberg had this to say about our "war on terror", and its current focal point, Iraq: " . . . it's an act of love to kill evil people who seek to kill Americans, it's an act of love for our nation". And with regards to those "Islamic jihadists" in Iraq seeking to kill us: "Peace is not an option."

In light of the half million innocent (i.e. – not "Islamic jihadists") Iraqi men, women, and children who may have been killed (thus far) as a result of our invasion, many have questioned where Col. Ryberg gets his reasoning (not to mention his definition of "love").

But I'm not one of them. I know where he gets his reasoning. He gets it from what he deems the "supreme law of the land" - the Bible, and specifically the Old Testament.

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It appears many in this mostly Christian land have been conditioned to view others unlike themselves as not fully human, or at least not quite as human as they are. Some of this conditioning can be traced to our evolutionary past, but I think most of it derives from biblical stories like the one I just related. These accounts of mass murder, of genocide, of hacking to death millions of women and children, are celebrated in this country as something wonderful or holy. They’re even portrayed as such in children’s coloring books! That’s what I mean by conditioning.

When you combine this myopic “we’re special” conditioning with the reasoning espoused by Ryberg and others within the Dominionist movement (Google or Mash it), you create an extremely volatile and dangerous situation. And it's all the more dangerous because these folks have infiltrated and/or control much of the Republican Party.
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the religiously insane are dangerous

[ginnyinWI]

1. they are just like the Islamic Fundamentalists

They want to kill us in the name of their country and religion, and these Christians want to do the same, for the sake of Americans (and the Christian way of life).

Do they not see the irony?

[bunkerbuster1]

2. No, they do not.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.

[poverlay]

4. No they really don't. Fundies suck no matter where they are. Except ice cream. I really

like it when someone gets back to the basics in ice-cream making...

[jobycom]

3. So it's an act of love to kill Republicans?

Sorry, can't even buy that one.

[Warpy]

7. I'm sure some Nazis thought it was an act of love to kill

the mentally retarded
the physically handicapped
homosexuals
Socialists
Trade unionists
Communists
Everybody with those "ugly" hooked noses
All those people like Poles, Gypsies and Jews who just didn't know how to live properly

Personally, I'm beginning to think it's an act of love to confront a fundy who spews this sort of evil garbage and smack him/her across the face smartly and repeatedly until s/he begins to wake up.

[jobycom]

11. That

may be the same as killing them. They do not tend to wake up.

[lonestarnot]

8. LOL

[Bluerthanblue]

5. this IS sick- and

twisted.

I wish i could agree with you that it only affects those who could be 'accused' of being religious-

But I've seen 'athiests' marginalize people- and attempt to 'dehumanize' others just as often as 'religious' people do.

Patriotism, any alliegiance to any 'group' is breeding ground for those who will find an opportunity to support our own "prejudice and bigotry"-

for example "freeper" :hide:

[ET Awful]

6. Sounds a little too much like the philosophy of the Crusades to me

The cry of many of the knights (particularly the Knights Templar) was "God wills it!" What with the belief that killing a "infidel" was not murder, but a direct path to heaven.

[mmonk]

13. 'God wills it" came to my mind too.

Same people, different century.

[jobycom]

14. It's the philosophy of every evil person everywhere.

The enemies trying to kill us say the same thing about us. Cho Seung-Hui said he was Jesus Christ, here to free the oppressed. Serial killers always believe they are following some higher understanding of the universe that lesser people just can't grasp. They call themselves fate, or the will of God, or the champion of the oppressed. Most murders are committed by someone who believes they are acting out of love.

This colonel is just Eric Klebold in a uniform. He's just as much a spoiled, evil punk slaughtering innocent people to show them whose boss, but the US pays him for it and treats him as though he's something other than the sick, murdering fuck that he is.

This is not a slam of our military. This is a slam of a sociopath who pretends that killing is the ultimate virtue, who managed to find a job where he can get away with it.

[LeftishBrit]

9. This sounds scarily like the views of the extreme Moslem 'Jihad' movements

" . . . it's an act of love to kill evil people who seek to kill Americans, it's an act of love for our nation".

It's an act of love to kill? And this from a preacher? Scary!!!

[bellasgrams]

10. There were many letters to the editor

over this. Most deploring it. I personally don't understand why some of the 'Christ ian' churches are so focused on the old testament. If they believe in Christ why don't they focus on the new testament?

[bdamomma]

12. can I do this now?

after reading the first sentence these people are sick bastards. :puke: