More from the anti Christian movement in this country:
Religious right group exploits tragedy for political gain
Posted December 11th, 2007 at 11:14 am
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On Sunday, in a gruesome tragedy, 24-year-old Matthew Murray killed two people at a Christian missionary center in Arvada, Colo., and then killed two others a Colorado Springs megachurch later that day. Murray apparently intended to kill others before a church security guard shot and killed him Sunday afternoon.
Tony Perkins, head of the far-right Family Research Council, decided yesterday to use the shootings to bash (and blame) the “secular media.” (thanks to reader D.N. for the tip)
Under a headline that read, “An Assault on Faith,” Perkins told supporters in a weekly email newsletter:
“It is hard not to draw a line between the hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians and evangelicals in particular and the acts of violence that took place in Colorado yesterday.”
I’m not sure what’s more twisted — Perkins seeking to exploit a tragedy to advance his religio-political agenda, or his bizarre belief that the “secular media” is responsible for fomenting hostility towards evangelicals.
In both instances, Perkins, a prominent religious right leader, has the story backwards. Murray, who was obviously suffering from severe mental illnesses, wasn’t immersed in the “secular media,” he was home-schooled in “a deeply religious Christian household.” |
