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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I understand that you are reluctant to ever agree with me but are you suggesting that 'acts of terror' committed in the name of God by white supremacists or those holding extreme Christian views get the same treatment and scrutiny?
I'd suggest in most cases the perpetrators of those crimes are written off as one-off nutjobs. Their stories typically don't last more than a few days.
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I don't have any problem agreeing with you if you choose to say things that make sense. Suggesting that the world view and religion of a religious terrorist isn't relevant makes no sense whatsoever. The reason a person did the thing they did is always relevant.
Terrorist acts committed by white Christian people are rarely committed
in the name of Jesus Christ, so focusing on how Christian doctrine is motivating them would be missing the central point. Most domestic terrorism by whites these days is predicated on a xenophobic ideology founded on racial purity. They're not marching around quoting from the new testament; they're shouting "blood and soil". It's more nationalism than anything else.
There is a basic difference between people who explicitly want a white state and people who want an Islamic one. For one thing, ISIS (or other radicals with Islamist sympathies) don't care so much what your bloodlines are, provided you're a believer. You'll find jihadis of all ethnicities, including many as white as can be. You're not going to find a lot of black or arabic guys at a Richard Spencer event.
Which isn't to say there aren't people who do bad things motivated by their interpretation of Christianity. Abortion clinic bombings are a perfect example. If a guy blows up an abortion clinic and kills a dozen people while shouting "I AM THE LORD'S SERVANT", and we find out his priest had been sermonizing about how his congregation should take matters into their own hands to prevent the godless heathen doctors from killing innocent babies, you'd better believe we're going to be talking about it. And that has happened multiple times - it just doesn't happen as much as it did thirty years ago.