Can you name the last couple acts of violence perpetuated by a Christian in the name of Christianity?

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And provide dates and a link if possible?

I am talking about violence that is religiously motivated

And I am talking actual violence not "offensive language" or a protest or saying something you didn't like, but actually physically hurting, killing, robbing etc. someone.

Corrosion, not that it detracts from the awfulness of the crimes you've mentioned, but they appear to have motivations other than religion, such as deviant sex or greed etc. I am looking for religiously motivated violence, not individual Christians who commit violence for their own disturbed reasons...

So far JohnPaul has the only answer with substance, I'm hearing crickets...

Dave C, please research abortion clinic bombings, I think you'll find it interesting - do you know how many times it has happened?

I can see 0 in the last 5 years (!) You'd think it was more widespread what with how everyone talks about it, wouldn't you?
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/violence/history_extreme.asp

Answer 1

How about that lady in Texas that drowned her 5 children because god told her to?

Answer 2

lucid freedom got it...some of the other 'answers were just plain pathetic examples of 'grasping at straws'...mark david chapman? doesn't even begin to fit the criteria you outlined...at least one of the responses cited things that had nothing to do with violence at all, and several that did mention violent acts could show no 'religious motivation' at all...rape is a violent act, but none of the rapes or acts of molestation cited were committed 'in the name of Christianity"...i think the responses you have gotten so far debunk two widespread myths...the first is 'the widespread violence committed in the name of Christ" hoax...and the second is the "superior atheist logic and reasoning hoax"

Answer 3

Violence against abortion clinics and their workers in the USA would appear to qualify.



Source below.

I don't hold Christianity to be, these days (the colonisation era, that was something else), a violent religion. Just badly mistaken.

Answer 4

Mark David Chapman, A Born-Again-Christian, murdered John Lennon becuase he heard voices in his head, allegedly from the devil, ordering him to carry out this violent act.
Regardless of your interpretation, this was an act of ultimate violence commited by a devout christian and as a direct result of his religious beliefs.

Answer 5

Whatever is found, the chances are the rest of the religious will distance themselves from it by saying that the perpetrators were "not real christians", as though that's their decision.

Most (at a guess) current violence would be against abortion clinics and their doctors. I don't have links or dates etc, but that would be probably the most visible current example of religious imbeciles attacking other people because of their ridiculous faith.

Answer 6

I wish I could remember dates and times but what about the abortion doctors that were killed by Christians that happened within the past 15 yrs.

Yep 7 too many lucid freedom

Answer 7

What about the violence these nuts have done against our constitution and our rights? Do I really have to look up and post a link to articles about everything that's happened in the U.S. for the last 7 years, which Christians have done by proxy through their votes for Bush and his ilk?

Edit: Here ya go, hon. Of course, they call these people 'pseudo-Christians', but who the %%^&$ knows what a True Christian™
is?

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/l/l44.html

Answer 8

What? You can't use google or something?

Alright, how about the abortion clinic bombings and assaults or murders that were carried out by christian pro-life zealots?
Seriously, if you spent five or ten minutes doing some research on this stuff you could find all the information you need.

Answer 9

Yes, the Pope of Italy recently badmouthed an ordained, male minister for simply legally marrying a healthy female doctor as his wife.

Answer 10

Christian Terrorism in Northeast India


http://www.stephen-knapp.com/christian_terrorism_in_northeast_india.htm


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Answer 11

are we supposed to now think it's ok for the christian right to establish a theocracy in america because so little violence can be directly attributed to christians in the past 5 years? what about fred phelps and his psychological war? what about decadent televangelists preying on the elderly and naive?

sorry, honey. i still don't want your religion forced upon me against my will. i don't want buddhism forced on me either. 'can you name the last couple [sic] acts of violence perpetuated [sic] by a [buddhist] in the name of [buddhism]?'