If this had been a Christian, would the religion have been front and center?

Question

If it were a Christian would other religios websites posted it as "testimony"?
I do not defend this person, but I can defend that his act were NOT A PART OF HIS RELGION! Why was it made out to be?
http://www.cclmaine.org/artman/publish/Maine_3/Gay_Pagan_Murderer.shtml
It's just wrong....

Oh don't get me wrong. I want to smack the guy and then watch him fry. It just irks me that the whole article was about what religion he was and not what he did! And then Christians are posting it on thier sites? Then they wonder why people get so annoyed with them???

I agree Pangel. Which just irks me more...

I can agree with that Creatrix but at the same time thier religion was at least in SOME aspect a part of the crime. It wasn't here.

Answer 1

The religion is only front and center in that article because your source is Evengelical Christian in orientation! If that article was on CNN, yes, I'd be mad as hell, but cclmaine.org has a particular agenda.

Answer 2

Of course they wouldn't. When we hear of those cults who have set up private communities so the leader can take advantage of people wives and children (as well as their bank accounts) you might see his denomination in the article, MAYBE, once... otherwise you just see "cult" written everywhere in it.

No, his acts were NOT part of his religion nor any Pagan religion that I am aware of.

What bothers me is the fact that they point out he's a Pagan in this, but you don't see news articles about certain Pagan leaders getting bomb threats at hotels (the Frosts of The Church of Wicca have had Several threats while they go on tour - many of which had lead the hotels to evacuate ALL of the people in the hotel) or the death threats others receive simply because they are Pagan and you won't hear a word. When our Pagan community is attacked because of our choice(s) in religion(s) it is not shown in the news the same way that if it were a Christian group that gets attacked for no apparent reason.

It is wrong... and hopefully one day we can work around this type of thing and bring the Media itself up to date.

Answer 3

This guy was a monster all the way through and of course if the religion he was was christian we probably wouldn't have heard about it except for a notation. But Christians will always propagandize something like this to try to discredit another religion. They would have done the same thing if the monster had been Muslim or some other non christian religion. It doesn't matter to them. It is just the way that they work. Fortunately the more they do something like this the more people are being turned off by it. They actually are making people leave their own ranks because of their misinformation tactics. Things that worked in the past aren't working so well anymore. I am an example of that as well as many others so take heart. Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves as the old saying goes. Blessed Be. Crone.

Answer 4

I guess you have to consider the source. I don't see how that information was relevant to his confession. They didn't mention a motive or anything. But as with all crimes, everything that can be found out about a suspect should be found out. This man made all his private information public. Anyone could have found out his preferences if they really wanted to, but I doubt religion would have been mentioned if he was a Christian, at least not on that site.

God Bless.

Answer 5

Yeah, there have been a number of Pagan murder suspects recently and I have wondered the same, however I have come to the conclusion that, had they been super religious in ANY faith, it would have been covered. Look at Andrea Yates or Deana Schlosser. These women were both very Christian, yet they murdered their children. Their Christian faiths were definitely part of the news coverage.

Answer 6

the thing that gets me is that a site like this would never publicize a christian law breaker this way. they would just defend their religion by saying the person wasn't a real christian.

Answer 7

This guy was not hiding who and what he was...... and yes, I think no matter what he would have claimed to be it would have still been mentioned...... In most news the fact of Christian or not is very seldom mentioned though..... But in most cases people do not boast one way or the other, unless they are part of a *group*....... go in peace....... God bless

Answer 8

hhmm might be just me
but nothing about his profile adds up to a murder to be honest
that whole thing seems weird

but I know nothing about the case other than that post and his profile that is linked in it

just rather odd considering all his likes and dislikes
but I do agree that his religion shouldn't come into it.... but then we say this no matter what religion a murderer is

as so often people post on this board about separate incidences with murderers and such like

Answer 9

Here's the thing: atheism makes no claims to produce more moral people, and neither do most pagan religions. We recognize that a lack of religious belief does not necessarily result in a more moral/ethical person.

OTOH, nearly all religions claim to make their followers more moral - hence, counterexamples have the effect of exposing that claim as false.

Answer 10

It's sensationalism at its finest, at the expense of those of us pagans who are not criminals. Those jerks, out for a headline. No, if the guy had been a good old Christian, it would hardly have had the audiences' collective tongues hanging out of their heads, and saying stuff like, "Hey Martha, lookee heyar, there's a daddgum freak of nature who got hisself in jail fer bein one of dem devil worshipin' paguns, and gosh durnit ifn he aint a f** too! Oh an he done kilt someone er somethin lak dat."

How unfair!