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riqster

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Wed Feb 18, 2015, 12:46 PM Feb 2015

ISIS and “Christian” Extremists: Both of them are terrorist organizations. [View all]

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/isis-and-christian-extremists-both-of-them-are-terrorist-organizations/

Lot of source info at the link.

Both groups want to murder millions of infidels so as to bring about the end of the world. Both groups cherry-pick their respective Scriptures to justify the evil acts they perpetrate upon others. Both are run by malevolent geniuses who are followed by hateful, gullible, violent f***wits with room-temperature IQs. And both have useful idiots in the media who try to paint them as something other than what they are.

Let’s start with ISIS, (and let’s call them “Daesh”, because it is accurate, and because they hate being called by that name).
Here is an excellent article on them, worth the click. Pretty long piece, so here are a very few snippets:

The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people. The lack of objective reporting from its territory makes the true extent of the slaughter unknowable, but social-media posts from the region suggest that individual executions happen more or less continually, and mass executions every few weeks.

Pretty gruesome, you’ll agree. But not all that different from various “Christian” Millenialist groups (we’ll call them “Teavangelicals”, because it is likewise accurate, and they also hate being called by that name).

Teavangelicals think they should rule the world as a theocracy. Just as Daesh does:

Kingdom Now theology states that althoughSatan has been in control of the world since the Fall, God is looking for people who will help him take back dominion. Those who yield themselves to the authority of God’s apostles and prophets will take control of the kingdoms of this world, being defined as all social institutions, the “kingdom” of education, the “kingdom” of science, the “kingdom” of the arts, etc.


Teavangelicals want to re-enslave people (Women, people of color, etc). Again, Daesh also believes in slavery. Check out this quote from a Fundie:

I’m not going to sugarcoat this article in an attempt not to offend anyone. Feminism is rebellion against God’s AUTHORITY! I don’t know where the term “feminazi” originated, but it accurately describes the Feminist Movement. So many pastors today are afraid to preach against the evils of feminism. The truth needs to be told!
America’s churches, marriages and homes are being destroyed by the vile feminist agenda. Women are now filing for divorce atTWICE the rate of men because of feminism. A godly man is a threat to the feminist’s agenda, because he believes that a woman’s place is still in the home—baking cookies, knitting, and caring for the children (1st Timothy 5:14). Of course, hen pecked husbands and sissies are exempt.


That’s what Teavangelicals say about women. As to POC? Here you go, straight from the horse’s ass:

Collier also said that he and his followers believe that whites are “God’s chosen people.” While he denies that racism is at the heart of the event, he admits that some members and attendees are Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members (but membership in the Klan isn’t a requirement).


And this little bon mot:

WE BELIEVE the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel. Only this race fulfills every detail of Biblical Prophecy and World History concerning Israel and continues in these latter days to be heirs and possessors of the Covenants, Prophecies, Promises and Blessings YHVH God made to Israel. This chosen seedline making up the “Christian Nations” (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race (Isa. 41:8, 44:21; Luke 1:54). Only these descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel scattered abroad (James 1:1; Deut. 4:27; Jer. 31:10; John 11:52) have carried God’s Word, the Bible, throughout the world (Gen. 28:14; Isa. 43:10-12, 59:21), have used His Laws in the establishment of their civil governments and are the “Christians” opposed by the Satanic Anti-Christ forces of this world who do not recognize the true and living God (John 5:23, 8:19, 16:2-3).


And are Teavangelicals violent like Daesh? Yep. Click here to get acquainted with the many “Christians” who behead, rape, bomb, torture and assassinate anyone their diseased “brains” tell them to. Here and abroad.

This writer certainly has no love for Daesh. They are lunatic mass-murderers, among other disgusting characteristics. We cannot, however, pretend that they are any different than the Teavangelicals. We have at least as big a problem with the supposed “followers” of Rebbe Yeshua bar Joseph as we do with those who pervert the teachings of Mohammed (peace be on him).

Any Christian who wants to pretend otherwise should remember this little quote from their professed Lord and Savior in Matthew 7:

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.


All terrorists are evil. All of them, regardless of motivation or religion. Look at them with clear eyes, and you’ll see it
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I have been saying for ages that I fear the fundamentalist reichwingnutjobs in this country niyad Feb 2015 #1
And you have been correct. riqster Feb 2015 #2
I think they both have extremist ideologies, but one is a specific organization and the other is not Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #3
I think it's more about funding, organization and opportunity. CJCRANE Feb 2015 #5
Of similar beliefs, but dissimilar actions whatthehey Feb 2015 #4
Actually, violent Christian extremists are quite a problem. riqster Feb 2015 #9
Sure - but nowhere near the same extent. There are Buddhist and Hindu terror groups too whatthehey Feb 2015 #12
If it's only a question of degree, I don't think my OP is disproved riqster Feb 2015 #14
Another point, albeit a minor one: riqster Feb 2015 #34
Best to confront these "terrorists" as soon as possible, like, at the visitor parking space. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #6
I am sure that would have stopped Eric Rudolph. riqster Feb 2015 #35
Well, the militant atheists managed to stop 3 religious types recently. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #39
Christian extremists have killed far more people than ISIS could ever dream of mwrguy Feb 2015 #7
I have no dog in the make believe fight, but this is not true recently whatthehey Feb 2015 #8
Depends on how narrowly you draw your definitions. riqster Feb 2015 #10
or how much you push the limits of definitions whatthehey Feb 2015 #13
The OP said that there are Moslem and Christian terrorist groups. riqster Feb 2015 #15
The rule of law in Western-style democracies makes 90% of your post pointless Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #11
Crap. Christian terrorists exist. riqster Feb 2015 #16
The western judicial system punishes criminal violence - religious inspired or otherwise Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #17
True, but not all that relevant in relation to the OP. riqster Feb 2015 #23
I don't make irrelevant posts. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #25
And upon you, peace. riqster Feb 2015 #26
One way to dilute the atrocities of one group is by saying everyone does it. Kaleva Feb 2015 #18
And another way is to say "those other guys kill more people than these". riqster Feb 2015 #20
Case of the mistaken mondegreen seveneyes Feb 2015 #19
Wore my copy out, I must admit. riqster Feb 2015 #21
I completely agree with this el_bryanto Feb 2015 #22
I certainly did not mean to tar all Moslems and Christians with that brush. riqster Feb 2015 #24
Not at all - I appreciate that you made the distinction. el_bryanto Feb 2015 #27
Like Obama made crystal clear in his speech yesterday....both are evil...both cloak evil in religion Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #28
S'truth. riqster Feb 2015 #31
Also, largely ignored is the entirety of Obama's messsage, the media filters not only Obama to suit the agenda Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #33
Yeah, I usually wait for transcripts myself. riqster Feb 2015 #36
Here it is: Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #38
Thanks. riqster Feb 2015 #40
We can rein in domestic terrorism with one first step meow2u3 Feb 2015 #47
I would be interested in seeing a link Jenoch Feb 2015 #29
So, a beheading is worse than shooting an abortion provider? riqster Feb 2015 #30
+1000 hobbit709 Feb 2015 #32
When did 21 abortion providers Jenoch Feb 2015 #43
So it's quantity then? riqster Feb 2015 #44
I am not justifyig the shooting of a single Jenoch Feb 2015 #45
Nowhere in the OP did I claim quantitative equivalence. riqster Feb 2015 #46
And let's not forget the fatwa issued by the Pope against the guy who created "Piss Christ". Nye Bevan Feb 2015 #37
Damfino. riqster Feb 2015 #41
Not sure about the Pope, but Bill O'Reilly just issued a fatwa CJCRANE Feb 2015 #42
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