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Towlie

(5,460 posts)
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 02:27 PM Nov 2017

Jim Cavanaugh just now on MSNBC, concerning today's church shooting in Texas:

"They (churches) are the target of evil because they do so much good."

Who wants to bet against my guess that the murderer will turn out to be very religious?

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Jim Cavanaugh just now on MSNBC, concerning today's church shooting in Texas: (Original Post) Towlie Nov 2017 OP
There are 3 likely possibilities Not Ruth Nov 2017 #1
Family member itsrobert Nov 2017 #2
MSNBC said that he killed family members first. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #3
So... progressoid Nov 2017 #4
So what does he think should be done defacto7 Nov 2017 #5
can't tell if the guy was an atheist or not RussBLib Nov 2017 #6
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
1. There are 3 likely possibilities
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 02:38 PM
Nov 2017

Love triangle or some similar internal dispute

Terrorist (normally white Christian)

Young mentally ill person inspired by drugs, social media and video games, as well as the famous church massacre scene from The Kingsmen


BigmanPigman

(52,262 posts)
3. MSNBC said that he killed family members first.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 04:38 PM
Nov 2017

The church video records all survives to watch on You Tube. This should provide a lot of info.

defacto7

(13,610 posts)
5. So what does he think should be done
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 06:53 PM
Nov 2017

about this evil that's killing the good church people?
Has he identified an enemy other than some blanket term he calls evil?
Or is he leaving it to all the good church people to identify this broad concept he calls evil?
If we aren't part of his "good church people" are we evil?

I hate these broad brush, mythical thinking, everything in simple tiny baskets non-thinkers.

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)
6. can't tell if the guy was an atheist or not
Fri Nov 10, 2017, 05:27 PM
Nov 2017

I saw a story about him being an atheist, but I think it was debunked as fake news.

You just know that if he was truly an atheist, the thumpers will proclaim that all atheists are evil, but when a Christian does something horrific, well, we're not all like that at all.

So much hypocrisy
So many double standards

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