Does anyone else get the feeling that the only thing truly keeping the Randall Terry’s of the world from telling people to kill abortion doctors is fear of incarceration? I’m pretty sure that if killing abortion doctors was made legal today, safe, legal abortion would disappear tomorrow.
Actually, Bob, I’m rather reluctant to even comment on this obvious insanity.
Randall Terry, to my way of thinking, is quite obviously, and perhaps even demonstrably,dangerously insane.
Speaking of insanity…I suggest going to YouTube to read the comments on the video. I don’t think I saw even one, what I would consider, a true atheist comment; which, of course, I can understand why. What’s really demonstrated, I think, in the mind-numbingly stupid comments, is just how fucking outrageously dangerous religion is to mental health.
We atheists are, quite literally, totally surrounded by people who are possibly one small step away from being raving, totally irrational, lunatics; dressed up, of course, in deceptive “Sheeple’s” garb, and wearing a typically phony “oh-so-loving Christian” mask.
Tyler I have to agree with you that they only say what they do to stay out of trouble. I think that the media needs to quit calling groups and individuals pro lifers. If they were truly pro lifers they would be trying to make life better for all and not worrying about what might be life. I have asked where the bible says abortions are wrong and they tend to just say all life is important. The educated protester know that the bible says nothing about it and even says that if a fetus is killed in the womb it isn’t murder.
Someone on another blog told me that Terry was just a fringe nut, as if he had no power. The guy is as crazy as a shithouse rat in a thermometer factory but he’s got plenty of sympathetic listeners.
I’m seeing a lot of references to the True Scotsman Fallacy since Tiller’s murder. Let’s make one thing perfectly clear. Randall Terry believes Jesus Christ died for his sins. Randall Terry is a Christian. Period.
I guess Randall Terry was Jealous that Bin Laden released a new tape too and didn’t want the American Taliban to fall off the media radar to those heathen Taliban guys.
Speaking of “true Christians” did anyone see the story of the Muslim store owner who gave a robber $40 and a loaf of bread? I’m not a fan of Islam but it’s interesting that in a week where Christians are the terrorists at home, a Muslim is handing out bread instead of judgement to the needy.
It’s hard to avoid the strong parallels between Randall Terry’s rhetoric here and that of leaders of White Supremacist movement — both all but openly spell out to their their flocks the need to kill “the enemy.” Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations was successfully sued (and rightfully so) for the violent actions taken by some of his group’s members against an innocent mother and son (but, unlike Dr. Tiller, they survived their attack). I only hope that Dr. Tiller’s family can sue the shit out of some of these groups or, ideally, sue Randall Terry himself, on similar grounds — and, hopefully, by using the Aryan Nations case as precedent. Such a parallel would send a loud message that these immoral sanctimonious bastards who shroud their evil in the guise of religion are no better than — and are actually quite similar to — those who actually do directly share the teachings and political goals of Adolph Hitler.
Abortion is legal in this country. Period. Anti-abortion groups rhetoric has nothing to do with ‘freedom of religion.’ Such groups have clearly crossed the lines: They have become nothing more than a *Christian Supremacist* movement. For this contemptible attitude alone, they deserve to be shut down, just as their brethren in the White Supremacist movement have been legally shut down. Additionally, for this murder, and other murders in the past, many of these Christian activists deserve criminal convictions as well. Randall Terry is not insane — he is simply a criminal that has yet to be charged and convicted.
2 June 2009, on 2:34 pm
Does anyone else get the feeling that the only thing truly keeping the Randall Terry’s of the world from telling people to kill abortion doctors is fear of incarceration? I’m pretty sure that if killing abortion doctors was made legal today, safe, legal abortion would disappear tomorrow.
“Pro-life” my ass.
2 June 2009, on 2:50 pm
Actually, Bob, I’m rather reluctant to even comment on this obvious insanity.
Randall Terry, to my way of thinking, is quite obviously, and perhaps even demonstrably,dangerously insane.
Speaking of insanity…I suggest going to YouTube to read the comments on the video. I don’t think I saw even one, what I would consider, a true atheist comment; which, of course, I can understand why. What’s really demonstrated, I think, in the mind-numbingly stupid comments, is just how fucking outrageously dangerous religion is to mental health.
We atheists are, quite literally, totally surrounded by people who are possibly one small step away from being raving, totally irrational, lunatics; dressed up, of course, in deceptive “Sheeple’s” garb, and wearing a typically phony “oh-so-loving Christian” mask.
2 June 2009, on 3:56 pm
“Every man deserves a trial of a jury of his peers and then a proper execution.”
Interesting… even if he’s not guilty of a crime?
This guy is an evil monstrosity.
2 June 2009, on 5:28 pm
Tyler I have to agree with you that they only say what they do to stay out of trouble. I think that the media needs to quit calling groups and individuals pro lifers. If they were truly pro lifers they would be trying to make life better for all and not worrying about what might be life. I have asked where the bible says abortions are wrong and they tend to just say all life is important. The educated protester know that the bible says nothing about it and even says that if a fetus is killed in the womb it isn’t murder.
2 June 2009, on 10:31 pm
Someone on another blog told me that Terry was just a fringe nut, as if he had no power. The guy is as crazy as a shithouse rat in a thermometer factory but he’s got plenty of sympathetic listeners.
2 June 2009, on 11:10 pm
I’m seeing a lot of references to the True Scotsman Fallacy since Tiller’s murder. Let’s make one thing perfectly clear. Randall Terry believes Jesus Christ died for his sins. Randall Terry is a Christian. Period.
3 June 2009, on 11:28 am
I guess Randall Terry was Jealous that Bin Laden released a new tape too and didn’t want the American Taliban to fall off the media radar to those heathen Taliban guys.
Speaking of “true Christians” did anyone see the story of the Muslim store owner who gave a robber $40 and a loaf of bread? I’m not a fan of Islam but it’s interesting that in a week where Christians are the terrorists at home, a Muslim is handing out bread instead of judgement to the needy.
3 June 2009, on 11:50 pm
It’s hard to avoid the strong parallels between Randall Terry’s rhetoric here and that of leaders of White Supremacist movement — both all but openly spell out to their their flocks the need to kill “the enemy.” Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations was successfully sued (and rightfully so) for the violent actions taken by some of his group’s members against an innocent mother and son (but, unlike Dr. Tiller, they survived their attack). I only hope that Dr. Tiller’s family can sue the shit out of some of these groups or, ideally, sue Randall Terry himself, on similar grounds — and, hopefully, by using the Aryan Nations case as precedent. Such a parallel would send a loud message that these immoral sanctimonious bastards who shroud their evil in the guise of religion are no better than — and are actually quite similar to — those who actually do directly share the teachings and political goals of Adolph Hitler.
Abortion is legal in this country. Period. Anti-abortion groups rhetoric has nothing to do with ‘freedom of religion.’ Such groups have clearly crossed the lines: They have become nothing more than a *Christian Supremacist* movement. For this contemptible attitude alone, they deserve to be shut down, just as their brethren in the White Supremacist movement have been legally shut down. Additionally, for this murder, and other murders in the past, many of these Christian activists deserve criminal convictions as well. Randall Terry is not insane — he is simply a criminal that has yet to be charged and convicted.
4 June 2009, on 8:53 pm
The only “teaching moment” I get from Dr Tiller’s murder is that some pregnancies that went full term should have been aborted.
6 June 2009, on 12:38 am
Perversely, I can agree with Terry: this is a “teaching moment.” He has just “taught” you to be afraid. Be very afraid. Of people like Terry.