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Monday, July 28, 2008

When Atheists Attack

At Recrudescent Religion:

When Atheists Attack

If you’ve been following the news, you are surely aware of the recent mass-shooting attack at a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee.


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The news media at this stage appear to be trying to spin it as “a right winger attacks a liberal church”, or some such rubbish. However, this is not supported by the actual evidence.
“I feel sick to my stomach,” said Karen Massey, a friend of Adkisson’s who lives two houses up from his duplex at 1919 Levy Drive in Powell. “You could say I’m devastated by this.”


Massey was among the half-dozen residents of Levy Drive who stood outside Sunday evening and watched as FBI agents and Knoxville Police Department officers began the lengthy process of gathering evidence from Adkisson’s home.
“I’m saddened for the church, I’m saddened by what happened, but I’m also saddened for him, as well,” Massey said. “He was my friend. If I needed him for anything, he would have done it for me.”


Massey said that, after learning of Adkisson’s alleged involvement in the church shooting, she recalled a lengthy conversation she had with him a couple of years ago.
Massey’s daughter, Cameron, had just graduated from Johnson Bible College, and Massey was eager to share the news. But when Massey told Adkisson, he didn’t react as she had expected, and she ended up having to explain to him that she was a Christian, triggering an outburst that lingered in her memory. “He almost turned angry,” she said. “He seemed to get angry at that.


He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it. “I was shocked that he had feelings like that, because I don’t have the same beliefs. I believe in the King James Bible, I believe it literally. … He had his own sense of belief about religion; that’s the impression I got of him.” According to Massey, Adkisson talked frequently about his parents, who “made him go to church all his life. … He acted like he was forced to do that.“ So, you have a guy who is bitter that his parents “made him go to church all his life”, who rants and raves about the “Bible contradicting itself”, and who becomes inexplicably angry when a neighbour tells him that her daughter just graduated from a Bible college.


This sounds suspiciously like the formula we see with so many of the so-called “New Atheists”. Even the fact that he attacked an Unitarian Universalist assembly doesn’t necessarily argue against the notion that he was an angry God-hater. Most God-haters out there are so mixed up they can’t (or simply won’t) make a distinction between far-left groups like the UUs and fundamentalists - anyone smacking of religion draws their ire.
We can probably expect to see more of this sort of thing in this country for as long as the secularist worldview continues to advance in this country.


Let’s face it - secularism is no more “rational” than anything else, despite its pretensions. Just as there are always some Muslims who will cross the line into violence because of their religious beliefs, there are secular fundamentalists who will also.



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