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I don’t know how well this is being covered in the States, but the murderer is being described as “Christian”. SamBee wrote:I don’t know how well this is being covered in the States, but the murderer is being described as “Christian”.
It’s being covered pretty well, I think. Flags are flying at half-mast where I work.
Yes, the individual is described as (and has self-identified as) Christian. Payback time for all the ‘Muslim’ terrorists, I suppose. I’ve also heard references to Knights Templar, and the Crusades. All crazy talk. The person is obviously very disturbed and angry beyond anything I can imagine. Sad, sad, sad.
He published a manifesto over 1,500 pages – and, apparently, he referenced just about every Christian denomination in history (including Mormonism) in some way. I have to assume some kind of serious mental disability, given what I’ve read – and that simply is sad.
Actually, the guy’s quite coherent, and intelligent, which makes me believe that he is completely culpable. That doesn’t stop him being insane, but it does make him guilty. He seems to be particularly attracted to Crusader imagery, and the Knights Templar. He was also into the old funny handshake club, and was pictured in a Masonic apron.
One particular feature I notice about him, is that he’s obsessed with uniforms, which I suspect deep down he associates with authority. It is also somewhat homoerotic.
No one wants to admit that the guy’s father is horrible either, and abandoned him at age one. The absence of a father figure has been critical in his mental development.
While I consider the guy a Nazi nut, I do believe that Western “liberalism” has a serious blind spot when it comes to the medieval values of extreme forms of Islam, particularly the male chauvinism in it, and ideas of retribution and blasphemy,
I know a number of Mormons have ancestral connections to Norway, perhaps not so recent, but still.
Being intelligent doesn’t preclude one from being a sociopath. Sometimes it seems to me some people are just missing that filter or light inside of us that tells us that such actions are crossing the line. How anyone could think that such a massacre is justified is hard to understand. Just as I don’t understand MMM.
He called himself Christian, so that is what the media uses. I am sure the majority of the 1.5 billion Muslims cringe every time they hear the term “Muslim terrorists”. Certainly true, Brown. And orthodox Islam and Christianity is actually against what these people do. But I don’t like the way mental illness is being emphasized in this case. It either lets him off the hook, or it reinforces prejudice against people with it. Neither is particularly good.
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