* October 2, 2004- Christian terrorist group kills 44 Hindus, wounds 118 in Northeast India. [1]
* January 16, 1997- Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs nightclub.[2]
* July 27, 1996- Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs Centennial Olympic Park. Kills 1, wounds 111.
* 1983- Posse Comitatus militia member Gordon Kahl kills two Federal marshals in North Dakota. Three others are wounded.
* 1978- Christian cult "the Peoples' Temple" leader Jim Jones orchestrates the death of 913 people with cyanide-laced Kool Aid. People trying to escape the compound are shot.
* 1969-2001- over 3000 people are killed in Ireland as a result of bombings and other violent acts between Catholics and Protestants. More than 1800 of those killed in "The Troubles" are civilians.
There are others, but these examples where easiest to copy and paste :P but still Christian terrorism against abortion clinics goes on even today?
2006-09-17
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Like in the case of so-called "islamic" extremists, these people do not reflect their religion in any way with their actions.
2006-09-17 07:38:37
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answered by Anonymous
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So you could find 5 instances over the past 23 years? That sure sounds equivalent to extremist Islam.
When was the last time there was terrorism against an abortion clinic? 1998? There's no excuse for it, but you can't compare something that hasn't happened in nearly 10 years to the wave of Islamic terrorism that we hear about every freakin' day.
Jim Jones was quasi-Christian - towards the end his cult was more a mix of new age, communism, and some pentecostal Christian elements. I wouldn't say he was representative of any train of thought in Christianity but his own. Same thing goes for the Posse Comitatus - who the heck is that? Never even heard of them.
The troubles in Northern Ireland are complex and really have more to do with politics and ethnicity than religion. Religion has been used as a disgusting cover-up - they'll say "we're being killed because we're Catholic/Protestant." In reality, the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland use their religion as a political identity, but very few actually do the bare bones minimum of practicing their faiths. Weekly church attendence in Nothern Ireland is something under 10%. They'll call themselves Catholic or Protestant when it suits a political purpose, but they don't even bother to attend their own churches on a regular basis.
2006-09-17 07:46:39
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answered by Sass B 4
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The first was self-defense,
Mr Rudolph was mentally ill (the Unabomber killed and wounded more people, but nobody blames the environmentalist movement for inspiring him)
Posse Comitatus militia is not Christian,
Jim Jones was not Christian,
The problems in Northern Ireland are an old animosity between the native Irish and the descendants of the transplanted English settlers. The differences in religion are coincidental, not the cause.
2006-09-17 07:46:42
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answered by DRDAVE 3
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-Never heard anything about the 2004 bombing. Couldn't tell you anything about the bombers.
-Eric Roberts wasn't a terrorist, he had no agenda to his bombing. He was just psychotic.
-I don't recall Posse Comitatus having any agenda either, they were just Christian Criminals.
-The People' Temple was a suicide cult, they weren't christian, neither was a Branch Davidian Temply in Waco, they just worshipped God and used old testament scripture, kind of like Judeism, Satanism and many other Non-Christian religions.
-The IRA is a Political organization in a country that happens to be strongly Catholic. Which is the closest example to a Christian Terrorist group as just like with Muslim Extremeists their religious leaders don't condem their actions publically. But if the IRA is a Christian Terrorist organization than just about any terrorist group in Mexico would also qualify.
-For some reason you didn't mention snipers that murderred Abortion Clinic doctors. They had agenda and were supported by scripture. The difference between them and Islamic Terrorist is that their religious leaders spoke out against their actions. Islamic Terrorists actions are endorsed by the more xenophonic texts of the quoran. While Islam never teaches anyone to crach a plane into a building, it does dictate how do deal with enemies of the faith.
2006-09-17 08:14:12
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answered by W0LF 5
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the closest i could get to an answer on it is to evaluate the area of the Resistance in France for the time of international conflict II. They have been combatting the presence of an occupational military and have been actual seen as terrorists and guerilla fighters by using the Germans. the only way the Germans could suppress acts of terrorism (blowing up bridges, railway tracks, ambushing German squaddies and supplies) replaced into to apply Retribution and Retaliation. This certainly served to administration the quantity of terrorism and eliminate the interior sight help for it. So the respond is which you would be able to in trouble-free terms win a conflict against terrorism by using inflicting a greater robust point of reciprocated terrorism against the harmless to eliminate grass roots help. Is that what Hiroshima replaced into additionally approximately? So the
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answered by mundell 4
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The good news is the Bible doesnt teach us to be violent as Christians but merely to spread the Gospel (good news) and love people the best we can.
Therefore when people committ acts such as these, we can all look into the Bible to see what the truth is as far as the proper way to follow Jesus. Christianity isnt defined by what violent people do in Gods name but in the foundational principles of the Gospel.
2006-09-17 07:41:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, don't forget the actions of other christian terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
2006-09-17 07:47:12
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answered by Anonymous
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You are correct. Christians tend to be the worst at policing each other. These Christian terrorists shame all Christians.
2006-09-17 07:40:07
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answered by Daniel M 3
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you dont want my thoughts, trust me. is every terrorist act to be justified in the name of a religion.
a terrorist is what he is. a terrorist
can i ask you a question, what religion was adolf hitler.
he committed crimes against humanity, that is the offence for which all terrorist should be charged,regardless of any or all religion.
regards LF
2006-09-17 07:46:54
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answered by lefang 5
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And just which of these acts of terrorism were actually sanctioned by any Christian church?
Face it, these were people who left the teaching and authority of the Church to go it alone.
2006-09-17 07:44:10
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answered by anabasisx 3
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