Were I on R.J. Eskow’s radar I’m sure I would have made his list of people who really killed the Unitarians which was compiled mostly of people he either disagreed with or disliked.
It’s a dishonest and wicked ploy to score cheap political points on the backs of murdered people. Wicked because it uses the deaths of his supposed fellow travelers to attack people who have little to do with the situation, dishonest because it ignores the radical atheism of Jim Adkisson, the murderer in question:
Karen Massey, who lived two houses from Adkisson’s home, told the Knoxville News Sentinel of a lengthy conversation she had with Adkisson a couple years ago after she told him her daughter had just graduated from Johnson Bible College. She said she ended up having to explain to him that she was a Christian.
“He almost turned angry,” she told the newspaper. “He seemed to get angry at that. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it.”Massey said Adkisson talked frequently about his parents, who “made him go to church all his life … He acted like he was forced to do that.”
In those few paragraphs Adkisson sounds more like the gals from Pandagon then the random list of people whose main crime is in some way gaining the animosity R.J. Eskow:
Who really killed those Unitarians? Was it the preachers who spread hatred and intolerance? The politicians who court and flatter them instead of condemning their hate speech? The media machine that attacks liberals, calls them “traitors” and suggests you speak to them “with a baseball bat”? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkisson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?
If you ask me, it was all of the above.
You killed them, Pat Robertson. You killed them, Pastor Hagee. You killed them, Ann Coulter. You killed them, Dick Morris and Sean Hannity and the rest of you at Fox News.
Conspicuously absent from Eskow’s list is Richard Dawkins or the cottage industry of anti-religiosity that teaches people to hate the religious. But those people are of the left, jut as the Unitarian Universalists so they cannot possibly be responsible.
It is here that, were this crime not so horrible, I’d be half tempted to compile a list of people liberal Christians killed. It would be here that I’d put forward that Liberalism is the effeminate, secularized bastardization of true religion and Liberal Christianity is little more than a half-hearted attempt to convince the world that Liberals care as much about the spiritual world as they do about how much money I happen to have in my pocket or if my donut has trans-fats.
Perhaps it would be inappropriate at a time like this to say that liberal Christianity is a disease eating away Western Civilization. The pompous desire “fix” criminals rather than punish them is simply the liberal version of turn the other cheek. The moral weakness liberal Christianity puts forward as so desirable is a rank perversion of the Christian doctrine of humility.
It is this nonsense and much more that leads to death after death, outrage after outrage. Eskow claims there is a long list of people who were responsible for the tragedy beside the shooter, but what about the long list of victims claimed by the ethical bankruptcy spread by liberal Christians and their “anything goes’ morality.
R.J. Eskow and his ilk are responsible for the Tate-Lablaca murders, the Lunsford murder, and countless atrocities by giving license to degenerates to run wild in our streets. Liberal Christianity preaches weakness and effeminacy which encourages Islamic Imperialism, and has led to the deaths of millions as Muslim fundamentalists spread their bleak vision of hell on earth unchallenged.
Perhaps it’d be inappropriate to recommend people like R.J. Eskow read Alan de Benoist’s On being Pagan and see how his own liberal Christian views end up being a metaphorical “Kick me” sign on his back. But I think were I to say all that it wouldn’t approach the level of bad taste and childishness of Eskow’s attempt to shift the blame for Adkisson’s murder spree from the shoulders of a man who hated not only gays and liberals but also Christians in generals to those same Christians who could have just as easily been the victims.
And of course the rest of us right wingers who Eskow secretly wishes were the real victims.
h/t Hot Air
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck just released a great book on the growing Socialist Christian movement and what a load it truly is. Why We’re Not Emergent. It is a must read.