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cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 10:17 AM Jul 2015

Rusty Houser hated women. He learned that at church. [View all]

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Houser’s violence was not abstract. He set out to kill women in the audience for an Amy Schumer movie. His lethal violence was an expression of his contempt for and distrust of women.

And that misogyny cannot be abstracted or diagnosed away from the anti-woman ideology he learned in his community, his culture, and, yes, in his church.

I’m not talking about his Southern Baptist church’s opposition to women’s ordination or its blasphemous “complementarian” theology of male supremacy, although that’s also part of it. But it’s possible to remain a Southern Baptist in mostly good standing while somewhat questioning that official required “stance” on the role of women in the church or the role of wives in marriage.

I’m talking about the more fundamental teaching — the paramount religious and ethical teaching of that denomination, which says that women cannot and must not be trusted. Rusty Houser was shaped by a faith tradition that does not abide any question or challenge to its official required stance of legal and political opposition to abortion.

Rusty Houser was shaped by a politicized religious community that routinely compares American women to Nazis and accuses them of killing “unborn babies” and thus being to blame for 9/11. Women, this central principle insists, cannot be trusted with their own sexuality or their own bodies. This is the fundamental fact it teaches about women: they are untrustworthy and irresponsible and morally inferior.

Houser embraced the premise of that teaching and — like Paul Hill and Scott Roeder — he took it all to heart. Now, as with Hill and Roeder, his actions are being dismissed as an aberration — the consequences of his mental illness rather than the consequences of the ideology instructed and required by his church.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/07/27/rusty-houser-hated-women-he-learned-that-at-church/



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Yes, the more strident apologists here skepticscott Jul 2015 #1
A look back into the life of John 'Rusty' Houser struggle4progress Jul 2015 #2
Lafayette shooter had history of right-wing web postings, erratic behavior struggle4progress Jul 2015 #3
Lafayette shooting: Gunman ID'd as "kind of a drifter" struggle4progress Jul 2015 #4
I am really quite sick of your ablist bullshit. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2015 #6
Perhaps you could benefit from a reading comprehension course: I simply posted struggle4progress Jul 2015 #7
Spare us the disingenuous innocence routine. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2015 #8
I think that when all one has to offer is a continual Google Gish Gallop, dignity is the least cleanhippie Jul 2015 #24
Lafayette Shooting Adds Another Angry Face in the Gunmen’s Gallery struggle4progress Jul 2015 #5
It is google gish gallop day here in the religion forum. Warren Stupidity Jul 2015 #9
I wonder if the dishonesty ever actually tweaks their conscience Promethean Jul 2015 #11
Cognitive Dissonance - mr blur Jul 2015 #12
There are no facts in the OP, only suppositions galore. kwassa Jul 2015 #15
Some chronology struggle4progress Jul 2015 #10
How long has he been a member of the baptist church? Lordquinton Jul 2015 #13
So might fucked up brain chemistry. Leontius Jul 2015 #18
Impeccable diagnosis, Dr. Rogers. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2015 #19
You also can't find religious belief as a mental disorder in there either but Leontius Jul 2015 #20
Please show me where I have said anything of the sort. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2015 #22
DSM-V, "religious and spiritual problems" AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #23
You're awfully quiet, Leo. Here, let me help you out. Act_of_Reparation Aug 2015 #25
You're wasting your time. Leo doesn't respond when busted fabricating reality. cleanhippie Aug 2015 #27
Or if the response warrants more than one or two sentences. Act_of_Reparation Aug 2015 #28
"But it’s possible to remain a Southern Baptist in mostly good standing while somewhat questioning" Lordquinton Jul 2015 #14
Exhibit A: “The Mansplainingest Mansplainer Who Ever Internetted.” muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #16
And, what does this prove in relation to Houser? kwassa Jul 2015 #17
Fred posted it as an example of the Southern Baptist attitude to women (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #21
I don't know what he learned at church but I know what he DIDN'T learn from Jesus Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #26
Some adherents to Abrahamic religions have a warped interpretation of the original sin Major Nikon Aug 2015 #29
So what's the non warped version? Lordquinton Aug 2015 #30
Well, less warped version(s) anyway Major Nikon Aug 2015 #33
I don't think original sin can be made to not be warped Lordquinton Aug 2015 #34
It's an ethical basis Major Nikon Aug 2015 #36
Who was Rusty Houser, the alleged Louisiana movie theater gunman? struggle4progress Aug 2015 #31
Thanks for proving out skepticscott Aug 2015 #32
It's strange, isn't it? Here's a guy who shot a bunch of strangers. And then some people struggle4progress Aug 2015 #37
No one is trying to explain all those other things skepticscott Aug 2015 #38
So where's your links about mental illness and violence? Lordquinton Aug 2015 #35
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