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Roisin Ni Fiachra

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13. I agree, jim. True Christians don't do this.
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 10:42 AM
Mar 2023

Unfortunately, I've met too few true Christians over the course of of my lifetime. Lovely folks. Very loving.

Not at all like the nuns who hit me and verbally abused me, and my classmates in the so called "Christian" school elementary school I was forced to attend. Not at all like the vicious Evangelical christo-fascists, whose primary core religious belief is hate for women and LGBT+.

Pseudo-christians have left a long, bloody trail behind them. Many of my ancestors fought against christian imperialists who tried to force their own special brand of "christianity", resulting in genocide.

I think the author is talking about all the shooter's cultural religious backgrounds, which is never mentioned unless they are born into, or adhere to other religions besides Christian or pseudo-christian religions, which are, unquestionably, the dominant religions in our culture. The fascists insist that the US is a "christian nation".

So you'll never see or hear something like, "the shooter was a white christian cis gender heterosexual male", in the news.

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I doubt they were Christian. True Christians don't do this. jimfields33 Mar 2023 #1
What is that? atreides1 Mar 2023 #10
Most of those White Christian Nationalists know leftyladyfrommo Mar 2023 #14
They haven't killed anyone. jimfields33 Mar 2023 #19
I suspect True Christians are defined much the same as True Scotsmen. Lancero Mar 2023 #26
I agree, jim. True Christians don't do this. Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2023 #13
Do true xtians crusade? ret5hd Mar 2023 #16
Oh yay, the "No true Scotsman" fallacy! Coventina Mar 2023 #25
You'd be wrong Sympthsical Mar 2023 #2
Facts... RobinA Mar 2023 #5
+1 treestar Mar 2023 #17
Vermont is lily white, majority Christian, and very gun friendly Kaleva Mar 2023 #3
Excellent overview of the state with little to no gun issues jimfields33 Mar 2023 #21
645000 people in the whole state GenXer47 Mar 2023 #24
For all of the posts that don't care sarisataka Mar 2023 #4
"Identity isn't important" Sympthsical Mar 2023 #11
+1 leftstreet Mar 2023 #23
You would be wrong..... forthemiddle Mar 2023 #6
And never once have I, a white man, been expected to publicly condemn these swine Redleg Mar 2023 #7
That's not true Zeitghost Mar 2023 #8
If the shoe fits TheProle Mar 2023 #9
That's like saying that most Republicans are white, Christian, and male.....and you would be right. walkingman Mar 2023 #12
seems as if everytime a mass shooting occurs GusBob Mar 2023 #15
Even IF what you post is true Wednesdays Mar 2023 #18
The primary target of RW hate and legalized discrimination in the Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2023 #20
This is a good example sarisataka Mar 2023 #22
there is something to this GenXer47 Mar 2023 #27
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