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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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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Hate is killing not talking.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Jesus said being angry leads to killing and warns us against it. It's a high bar.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK And yet He took a rope and chased the money changers out of the temple.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 I know you don't believe he was a hypocrite so how do you square it?
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK We are told to get angry but not sin. Ephesians 4:26. Anger is not the problem. The actions that our anger engenders is the problem. To say that being gay is contrary to God's plan is not hatred nor is it anger. It is a statement supported in the Bible. Hatred is taking a gun and killing the guy who says that gayness is contrary to the Bible.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Thank you for your take on this. I am always pleased to learn why others take a different interpretation. I certainly accept the notion of 'righteous anger' where people deliberately abuse, hurt and exclude others, which of course is what was happening in the Temple when Jesus cleared it.
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955 It is also sin to entertain bad thoughts. So actions alone is not all that's required
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@DarthInvader Define bad thoughts. If you think a toddler reaching for a hot stove should be stopped is that hatred or love when you confront the child and say "NO!"?
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."
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@DarthInvader You have no idea what Christianity is all about.
DarthInvader · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955 All I did was use the Bible to make my case. It is you that keeps making claims without it.