Is this Christian Terrorism? i say YES!?

Question

By now everyone in the western hemisphere has heard about the virginia University shootings where 32 people were gunned down. It has been hailed as the worst school shooting in American history but CNN has failed to mention one thing about this TERRORIST. HE WAS A CHRISTIAN AND HIS FAITH INSPIRED HIM TO KILL. i am sure if it were a Muslim student CNN would have had a field day! So...do you think I am lying? Here is the proof. He sent a pacage to NBC before he died and in it he states
"You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."
here is a link to the story if you still dont believe me
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_shooting

Answer 1

If he was a muslim i have no doubt that it would be called terrorism.

But since he's not, he's just a plain looney.

Thats just how things work here.

Answer 2

You also need to understand that the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis and many others claim to be Christian or acting on Christianity but actually are doing the exact opposite. Don't blame Christianity for what people do in the name of Christianity... they're polar opposites.

Christianity by definition is the following of the teachings of Christ. Christ did not preach violence. He did not preach intolerance or hatred or to be judgmental. When it came down to an entire community wanting to condemn an adulterous woman to death, Christ stood forward and pointed out that no one is free from sin. He didn't condemn sinners, He loved them. He befriended sinners and treated them as if they were His brothers or sisters. You know who Christ didn't like? The Pharisees... the self-righteous, pious church leaders who sat in judgment over everyone, even though they had taken the House of the Lord and turned it into a seller's market and in turn, crucified the Son of God for blasphemy.

In short, this man was NOT a Christian. Just because someone claims to be a Christian does not make it so. I can stand here and claim to be a pineapple, but unless I envoke the properties of a tropical fruit it's not true. Hitler thought he was a Christian too. So do these inbred rednecks who terrorize African Americans in the deep south. They are grossly misled and they are doing more work for Satan misleading others than they are for Christ.

Stop confusing Christianity with the sick people in this world who give it a bad name. What this b@stard did was inhuman and of the most dispicable nature. To claim he was a Christian is perverse. What he did was about as anti-Christian as anything.

Answer 3

Mental illness is what he had and it made him rationalize what he was feeling and ultimately he followed those rationalizations to the point that he killed. I think that we will find that as all this gets disected under the public microscope we will find that the problem came to rest at the door of the hospital that he allowed himself to be admitted to. Having dealt with poverty brought on by a dibilitating illness and life long depression I have seen what is out there for people who can't afford needed treatment. Doctors tend to say whatever they need to move the poor patient on whether it is right or wrong. Mental illness can be fatal, but in this case it killed others before it was turned within. His treatment is what needs to be investigated and the doctors who dismissed his "condition" held responsible!

The only terrorists here where his mental demons!

Answer 4

So, he was a Christian because he mentioned Jesus?
Me thinks ya don't know what it means to be a Christian.
Christian terrorism?
If you have such a problem with Christianity, just deal with what ever the problem is - don't invent or twist things to further your own agenda - it only weakens it.
Most people are sensible enough to realize that true Christianity is about - Love, Forgiveness, Peace - these are all fruits of the Holy Spirit, not the hatred and hypocrisy you're trying to spread.
God bless.

Answer 5

He was a disturbed individual. Religion was not the cause of this. It doesn't matter that he talked about Jesus. If there was no religions at all in the world, he would have found another reason. He ranted about Jesus because he was personally delusional.
Let's not use this tragedy to point fingers at people with different beliefs than us and say "Ha ha! My beliefs are better than your beliefs."
I'm an atheist, and I would never dream of using the idea that he believed in Jesus as ammunition against Christians.

Answer 6

A person who goes and kills 32 other people is not of their right mind. How can he compare his death to that of Christ? Also, the two guys from columbine he mentioned in the note were killing people BECAUSE of their faith in Christ. Anyone can say that their death was b/c of God, but that doesn't mean in any way that they are a Christian-- being a Christian means living your life for Christ-- showing other people the love of Christ.. Any i am pretty sure one of the commandments is thou shall not kill....so there you go.. not Christian terrorism, but good try.

Answer 7

Don't use this as an anti-Christian piece. Jesus is the most well-known martyr in Western civilization. This is like saying if he evoked the archetype of Martin Luther King, then it's black right terrorist. Substituting one well known person who died for his cause MLK:

"You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Martin Luther King, to inspire generations of the weak and defenseless people"

This boy was not a Christian. Christ died for other people's sins, this boy took innocent lives in his sin. He's the exact opposite of a Christian by definition.

Answer 8

Are you blaming Christ? The Christian faith? How can you say that his faith inspired him to kill.
He didn't die like Jesus at all. He didn't die for or cleanse us of our sins. I don't know what was going on in his life and I really have no right to judge him. Clearly you don't know enough about Christianity.

Answer 9

How in the world can you say that Christianity would teach anything like what this crazed maniac did at VT? I see a lot of hate in yours words directed at a group of people because of their faith. There is a word for people who do that... It's BIGOT... I didn't see that his note said those words but it just goes to so how sick he was. Jesus was nailed to a cross by the Romans He didn't kill people then go commit suicide.. Jim

Answer 10

Interesting turn of events, to be sure. His conception of Jesus Christ seems to have been faulty, however, since the Jesus Christ followed by Christianity is not known for any bloody massacres. Hui was simply demented. Hui used the name of Jesus to sanctify his unholy act. That doesn't make Christianity responsible for it.

Answer 11

Terrorism is obtainable in each and every shape and form: faith (Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, and so on), Animal rights activists, white supremesists, political ideologies, ethical, and so on and so on and so on. the actuality of the topic is that terrorism comes, for the main area, from extremists who gasoline hatred between the adverse, the uneducated, the ill, the landless, or in spite of difficulty they might use to mobilize them (be it some or by using the loads) in the direction of their reason... that's those extremist we would desire to continually be frightened of and shield. we would desire to continually restrain from stereotyping great populations of human beings (eith consistent with their faith, ethnicity, belives, values, political ideologies, and so on). quite, we would desire to continually comprehend what are the underlying factors that have led them to be mobalized by using the extremists so as that we can make certain the authentic underlying issues in our international on the instant. merely undergo in recommendations: hate begets purely extra hate. its a vicious circle without satisfied ending!!!!