Photog's OP is a perfect example of the old saying, "A text out of context is a pretext." That's as much and more as Photog's - and the blog (s)he quoted - post deserves.
Haven't Libs & Progs recognized
yet that the "Christian terrorists" meme is so moth-eaten there's no fabric left? Geesh! When they produce course catalogs from Bob Jones University or Dallas Theological Seminary or Biola University or ... with courses such as
IEDs 101 or
Sewing Suicide Vests 1A or
Advanced Head Hacking I'll stop mocking such foolishness.
Here's an article from last spring that takes on @#$% like this head-on:
When Salon Went Hunting for Christian Terrorists…By Robert Spencer April 13, 2015
pjmedia.com/lifestyle
Ever heard of the Army of God? Or Concerned Christians? As far as Salon and other leftist media outlets are concerned, they’re just as lethal as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda – and the only reason why you haven’t heard of them but have heard of the Islamic terror groups is because of the mainstream media’s deeply ingrained “Islamophobia.â€
If this sounds absurd, it’s only because it is. The mainstream media, especially organs like Salon that are even more leftist than the others, are always avid to exonerate Islam and establish the claim that Christianity is just as likely to incite its adherents to violence as Islam is. To try to do this, they have to resort to increasingly desperate stratagems, in an effort to convince you that these nefarious Christian terrorists are all over the place, and you would know that, except for the evil right-wing media’s constant Islamophobic ranting. So it is with Alex Henderson’s “6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups our media conveniently ignores,†which Salon reprinted from Alertnet on last Tuesday.
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Salon, nonetheless, is determined to obscure that fact and prop up some “Christian terrorist groups†that Americans ought to be as wary of as they are of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Yet none of these groups enjoy anything like the broad support among Christians that the Islamic State or al-Qaeda have among Muslims — have 25,000 Christians traveled from all over the world to join the Army of God? Nor does any sect of Christianity teach that Christians have a duty to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.
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I never heard of (Eastern Lightning, a.k.a. the Church of the Almighty God) before, and it sounds very strange: with its Jesus-is-coming-back-as-a-Chinese-woman thing, it is hardly anything close to mainstream Christianity, Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant. Also, Jesus never says anything in the Gospels about beating women to death if they refuse to hand over their phone numbers.
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In reality, the Lord’s Resistance Army is funded by Sudanese jihadis, and reflects a Christian theology that is held by no Christian sect anywhere — in stark contrast to the undeniable fact that all the mainstream sects of Islam and schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers.
ProgNewMedia outlets don't dredge up obscure and defunct groups because they love obscurantia. They do so because they have a narrative to support, and such obscure and defunct groups are all the support they can find. These advocates of the
Christian Terrorism narrative aren't
trying to be pathetic, they're merely
succeeding in being pathetic.
