Up to Christians to decide if they like that framing. Not my problem. I’m happy to put all the Christians in a “potential violent psycho killer” bucket and operate under that heuristic.
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Um, I’m not the guy writing articles calling a psycho killer a devout Christian. Um, I’m just responding to that phrasing. Um, up to them to determine if they’re cool with that. Um.
Aren’t you the guy “happy to put all the Christians in a ‘potential violent psycho killer’ bucket and operate under that heuristic”? But OK blame some journalist.
In fact it was the assassin’s roommate who called him “a devout Christian.”
If they don’t want to push back on the classification and are fine keeping this guy, and the others like him, in their club, I’m happy to adjust my perception. That’s exactly what I said.
I have strong instincts, always have, to a point where I can practically tell how potentially intelligent a person is by reading their face and how they carry themselves. That said when I was growing up in church the majority of churchgoers gave me sociopath/psychopath vibes, never trusted them.
Now my church I went to was a primarily black church that welcomed anyone and they were all good people, it was the churches that were mostly white folks that gave me those uneasy feelings. Something always felt off whenever we went to the biggest Baptist church in town, I always felt uncomfortable.
A thing that I think is really underrated is that a lot of Christians (primarily a certain type of white Christian) aren't really in it for anything but being able to feel superior to everyone else. I am not black, but my encounters with black churches was that the community (con't)
was the primary emphasis, but the white churches I grew up in had a *lot* of people who only seemed to be there to find reasons to sneer down at other people. Obviously not across the board, I didn't get that vibe with the Methodists, for example, but it was a lot more common.
Literally my experience as a white person growing up around black folks in middle Georgia. The white churches sneered at you if you even enter the church in plain clothes, always felt like they were hiding shit (obviously were because the old youth pastor was arrested for being a pedo.)
But the black churches I attended were always about community and helping one another. I felt so welcome in the one I went to instead of an outcast for being poor. Black folks were the kindest people to me growing up in that small town.
That’s a completely understandable position based on the current state of things. I’m a Christian but I 100% agree we have to speak up and condemn this
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In fact it was the assassin’s roommate who called him “a devout Christian.”