Hi folks, I haven't been around in nigh on forever because, really at this point what's there worth talking about? With a week of distance from the Shootings at Verginia Tech, though there's a matter I'm very interested to talk about.
I was browsing through some threads on the forum when I stumbled upon this fairly characteristic post by madanthonywayne. The fact that he's a right-wing wacknut aside I've got to say that I heard many people voicing this very same suspicion on the day of the shooting, before the public was made aware of the identity of the shooter. I'll even admit that I briefly wondered myself if these killings were at all religiously motivated.
In the days that followed, and as America got a look at what it considered a fairly unlikely candidate for mass homicide many of the usual theories sprung up regarding what could have motivated Cho Seung-Hui.
Was it Violent video games? Had to be - the kid was Asian. Oops maybe not - turned out he didn't have any video games.
Was it the guns that made him do it? Oh no, seems he was a little crazy before obtaining the guns, and only purchased them a few weeks prior to the shooting, likely specifically to carry it out.
Well in that case was it. . . did he maybe flirt with evil Islam at that liberal southern College? Oh no, turns out he was a good Christian boy - the motive remains a mystery!
So many people secretly suspected that it must have been a Muslim, or that Islam had something to do with the shootings, but then the moment it's revealed that Cho was a die hard Christian, BAMN religion as a motivator in any part evaporated from people's minds as if that couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, yet right in his tapes Cho espouses Christian virtues again and again and compares himself to Jesus Christ.
My question to people who thought as madanthonywayne is this: Now that you know the religion of the killer - what do you make of it? Isn't radical Christianity just as dangerous as radical Islam? And why is it that Christian terrorists seem to get a pass when we think of religions that promote hatred and violence?
Guys like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph seem to get a free pass when it comes to canalizing they're theological motivations and I have no idea why.
madanthonywayne said:
I was browsing through some threads on the forum when I stumbled upon this fairly characteristic post by madanthonywayne. The fact that he's a right-wing wacknut aside I've got to say that I heard many people voicing this very same suspicion on the day of the shooting, before the public was made aware of the identity of the shooter. I'll even admit that I briefly wondered myself if these killings were at all religiously motivated.
In the days that followed, and as America got a look at what it considered a fairly unlikely candidate for mass homicide many of the usual theories sprung up regarding what could have motivated Cho Seung-Hui.
Was it Violent video games? Had to be - the kid was Asian. Oops maybe not - turned out he didn't have any video games.
Was it the guns that made him do it? Oh no, seems he was a little crazy before obtaining the guns, and only purchased them a few weeks prior to the shooting, likely specifically to carry it out.
Well in that case was it. . . did he maybe flirt with evil Islam at that liberal southern College? Oh no, turns out he was a good Christian boy - the motive remains a mystery!
So many people secretly suspected that it must have been a Muslim, or that Islam had something to do with the shootings, but then the moment it's revealed that Cho was a die hard Christian, BAMN religion as a motivator in any part evaporated from people's minds as if that couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, yet right in his tapes Cho espouses Christian virtues again and again and compares himself to Jesus Christ.
My question to people who thought as madanthonywayne is this: Now that you know the religion of the killer - what do you make of it? Isn't radical Christianity just as dangerous as radical Islam? And why is it that Christian terrorists seem to get a pass when we think of religions that promote hatred and violence?
Guys like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph seem to get a free pass when it comes to canalizing they're theological motivations and I have no idea why.
