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STOCHASTIC TERRORISM is when people like Charlie Kirk, the "thinkers" of our time, spurt hateful rhetoric out to the masses, knowing full well that it

will cause outrage and eventual violence.

In this way, he never has to wear the murderer label, the domestic terrorist label, never even handle one of the pew pews he so admired. Pew pews have one purpose: to beat out all other weapons, esp over long distances.

Charlie got to keep his hands clean, except of his own blood. I will say it again: I do not laud murder, but I do laud self defense. To do this in front of his young children was uncalled for and cruel.

But God is a righteous God, and there is POWER in the tongue. Do not judge, lest you be judged. JUDGING is an ACTIVE verb. When I was a little girl, I used to wonder how people got so fat, and I judged them. Look at me now: struggling with a cane and hurt knee, very heavyset even after losing nearly 100 lbs.

There are sins that do lead to death, according to the very Bible Kirk supposedly espoused the tenets of, but vengeance is supposed to be God's; He DECLARED it. I wonder if worse awaited Kirk if he wasn't pew-pewed.

What we have here are visceral reactions from people "seeing the sausage being made", so to speak. Y'all care...because he was young, had a family, and you saw blood spurting out of his neck, which he made a habit of talking out of. Allow me to posit that, if you had been PAYING ATTENTION TO GAZA AND UKRAINE AND SUDAN, ETC..you wouldn't have been as bewilderpated at human suffering!!!

There are people like Kendra from the "Unknown Number" documentary who never had to touch a weapon, and is truly undifferentiated from Michelle Carter except that Lauryn didn't end herself. There are people like my mother who did things to encourage my passing as well.

These are covert narcissists, and they DO matter. You can harm someone PHYSICALLY without EVER touching them, even by altering their brain chemistry. So again, I do not grieve him, but I do not celebrate the loss of a human life that does not belong to Thiel, Miller, Musk, Putin, etc.

What I DO celebrate is less of this Christian masquerade cosplay, less stochastic terrorism, less TAKING JESUS' NAME IN VAIN. These same people say that Jesus would have hated immigrants, when Jesus HIMSELF was an immigrant, and said that we "might be entertaining angels" among them! That anything we do to them we do unto Jesus Himself!!

To call for a civil war after this white on white crime is to entirely miss the point. TRUE Christians, don't lose your faith over people who follow other people and not Christ!! They are SUPPOSED to know us for our love, but feel that there is no hate like it!!

If you require a call to arms to feel special, put on the armor of Christ and arm yourself with the true gospel: Do unto others as you would have done to you, loving them as Christ loved the church, loving them as yourself, and loving God with your whole heart.

Anything else is idolatry.
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HootyTheNightOwl · 41-45
To be fair... What does America expect when the President gets away with inciting riots???

If it's felt that the top man/woman is above the law, then some people are going to wonder if there's a sense of lawlessness within the country. Trump himself has done a good job of causing people to wonder if there are any laws at all given the number of times he changed his mind on the tariffs.

I'm all for immunity in some cases - but blanket immunity is harmful when you have presidents inciting riots and diplomats killing foreign citizens in their own countries, then leaving that country rather than staying to help with the investigation into the death.
BohoBabe · M
I admire Jesus for many of his teachings, specifically on helping the less fortunate. But the Democrats have embodied "turn the other cheek" when dealing with the Republicans and look where it got us. America now has a fascist government.

Love is good, hate is bad. But love should be conditional. We need to be able to fight fire with fire.
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
@BohoBabe better yet, fire with water..i am a centrist..put the hellacious fires OUT.
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GuiltyBiStander · 31-35, F
One of the biggest mistakes humans continue to make is to mix religious teaching with political strategies. What you get almost every time is false piety, and corrupt politics.

Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be murdered because someone belived his ideas were bad. But until we stop listening to and believing people like him, more lives will be ruined.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@GuiltyBiStander Or maybe we should simply ignore the haters whose hatred killed Charlie.
GuiltyBiStander · 31-35, F
@hippyjoe1955

That too.

But what makes it hard is when you realize the problem is the hate in your your own community, your own familiy, or your own thoughts.
WestonT · 18-21, M
The co-option of religion for this kind of politics is particularly disheartening to me.

One good thing that may come of this is that some political pundits who know that they contribute to a nasty climate of rhetoric by putting out all this inflammatory BS are rethinking some of it. People shouldn't be afraid that they're going to be shot if they express their opinions, but they should consider that hateful, divisive rhetoric might get through to unhinged individuals. You do have a responsibility for what you say. Especially if what you say has influence over the government.
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
@WestonT
ayy from the mouths of babes! clock it!!
Thank you for these thoughts. May there be many true followers of Jesus, as you describe them, in your life.
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
@ThePatientAnarchist aww thank you..i sure wish
Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M
I’ve been listening to Christians argue about the true nature of Christianity for as I can remember. It must be hard for so many American Christians, many of whom are white supremecists like Kirk was, to rationalize their hate. They seem to be making progress, though.
HotPizza71 · 51-55, M
Say the guy who shot him,was a Christian...I'm sure God didn't tell him to act on earth for him.
Sometimes there are just bad egg's in the world, nothing to do with God's Will...
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@HotPizza71 He was apparently from a Mormon family which is not a mainstream Christian group. But then again, Kirk was not mainstream - except in certain parts of the US.
Nume25 · 31-35, F
That was a trip start to finish
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
dale74 · M
Show one time he has ever said something hateful or violent
HotPizza71 · 51-55, M
@dale74 it's available everywhere,the speeches he made are all viral. This I picked from the first speech I clicked on.. I couldn't watch anymore than the two I clicked on,made my blood boil. But you believe what you want to believe,just stay outta my way fella
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
@dale74 english please? since people like you say it is the "language of this country", but cannot SPEAK IT?
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Hate is killing not talking.
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955 Well, let's define it from a biblical perspective so that we don't reduce it to our own self-serving examples.

Matthew 5:28 (KJV)
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

There’s a huge difference between correction and bad intention, and your example conflates the two.
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DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955 I don't quite understand the relevance of your response. I made the claim that thoughts themselves can be sinful or lead to sin, and action alone is not required. I proved it by Scripture. I never said we are not to correct, I said there's a vast difference between correction and malicious intent. To use your baby analogy, saying "no" is correction, because you love the child, but hating the child, you could stand by, let the baby burn, and even laugh with excitement as it cries, that requires no action on your part, yet the sinful intent is already clear.


So again, no action is required on your part for hate to be evidenced in you. In fact, your words will reveal what’s in your heart, because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What you say reflects the thoughts you are entertaining.

Matthew 12:34 (KJV)
"…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
And peace talk is suppressed by the algorithm. Net neutrality ain't for war powers!
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
You’re literally doing idolatry
foldedunfolding · 41-45, F
@Ferise1 "doing" idolatry? says the man who said "oh mama" to my post

 
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