Christians: are you familiar with this case?

Question

http://vassleer.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/03/504714-murdered-for-being-an-atheist

Taelec: for the one-millionth time, Hitler was a Roman Catholic, his German cohorts were 98% Christian (statistically), the Holocaust is rooted in centuries of Christian anti-semitism. Let's be fair, dude.

Answer 1

Horrible, disgusting, heinous, dispicable, and if I had a thesaurus with me, I'd tack on a lot more adjectives.

But you do realize that this is a fringe element, and not all Christians are like that, right?

Answer 2

Unfortunately, being a Christian does not automatically exempt a person from developing a mental illness, just as it does not exempt form for physically illneses. Christians still get the flu, a cold, or even die of cancer.

So why would it seem surprising that a Christian could also develop a mental illness? I know a strong Christian pastor who battled depression, causes by a chemical inbalance in his brain due to an extra section of one of his glands within the brain. That was not "caused" by his Christian faith, nor should he have been exempted because of it. His depression was not the result of his faith, but his body.

It appears that something happened to this young man also. It is unfortunate that it was not treated in time to save the other man's life. And since religion was important to this young man, it is not unusual that his illness would manifest as a religion obsession. In otheres, it can be seen as obsessive/compusive disorder, or some type of additction.

Hopefully nobody is going to mistaking a mental illness that drives a person to kill with a faith in a loving, good, God that calls us to "love others as we love oursleves". They are very different things.

Answer 3

I am near tears and literally feel ill.

I would be able to accept that he was mentally ill had not his family said the things they did. He was indoctrinated into a cult of hatred.

Of course most Christians aren't like that. My parents are good Christians (I'm not Christian, though).

This guy was actually more like Hitler than Taelec and others would believe.




From the Lansing State Journal newspaper (Lansing, Michigan) of February 23, 1933.
HITLER AIMS BLOW AT 'GODLESS' MOVE

Chancellor's Forces Seek the Catholic Support for Latest Campaign

BERLIN, Feb. 23 (AP)--A campaign against the "godless movement" and an appeal for Catholic support were launched Wednesday by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's forces. They struck at two of his formidable opponents in the March 5 elections, the first at communists and the latter at the allied Catholic parties.

Meanwhile five more persons were killed and scores were injured Tuesday night in the incipient civil war which has been waging since Hitler's rise to power. This brought the number of deaths in political clashes since the first of the year, when Hitler began negotiations for the chancellorship, to about 70.

A campaign against the "godless movement" was announced by Bernard Rust, nazi commissioner for education and culture in Prussia, in an address Tuesday night before students at the technical university here. He said the details would be revealed in the next few days. In his speech opening the campaign for the reichstag and Prussian diet elections, Hitler attacked communists for the spread of atheism.

An appeal to Catholic nazis was printed Wednesday in Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter, assailing the Catholic centrist and populist parties. It recalled the papal encyclical of January 9, 1928, which admonished priests to serve the religious interests of the nation and not to affiliate with political parties. Hitler, himself, is a Catholic.

Answer 4

I was willing to be saddened that this was the action of one lone, disturbed person who purported to be a Christian.

But the actions of the family towards the atheists attending the trial demonstrates that it was not just a lone incident. This behaviour is condoned, even venerated within that community.

Can anyone justify the family's actions, or explain how what they did could not be considered both terrorism and assault?

These people are just as dangerous as any Islamic radical with a suicide bomb.

Answer 5

So another Atheist bites the dust. The Christian who killed the Atheist was obviously mentally ill. I don't say that excuses the murder but I would bet he was provoked by the Atheist he killed. We had better be cautious how we conduct ourselves around these nutty Christians. Many good people both Atheist and Christian are killed needlessly.

Answer 6

Yes, I actually am familiar with this case. An insane man that claimed to be Christian murdered another man that was not Christian. It happened in 2004, can't you find a more recent insane person to discuss?

Answer 7

Right and an Atheist has never killed any one for believing in God

You know like Hitler or Stalin or anything like that

This kid did not represent Christians and you know it. You also know that those people did not represent all Christians

But as I stated before I guess all atheists are mass murdering psychos because a few were?

And for the Millionth time just because someone claims they are Roman Catholic does not make it true
Hate to burst you silly little bubble on that

Least you ignored the fact that those people do not represent Christians

Truth hurts your little arguement and now you want to take you ball and go home..
Sorry that I'm just a bit too smart for you and did not fall for your ploy...
All the thumbs down are a good proof that people don't like truth

Answer 8

I did hear something about this last year, I think... I live in Michigan and it was a local story.

I'm not a Christian.

Any murderer who believes that he was justified when murdering someone in cold blood is a major threat to society. Personally, I think he needs a lot of psychological treatment.

Answer 9

Well, that about sums up the methodology and message of Christianity. if you ain't with us, you're against us.

And to the person directly above me - Hitler was a Christian.

Answer 10

Furthermore, Hitler didn't kill people for religious reasons. Lousy argument.