Man arrested for plot to bomb Miami (Oklahoma) churches

Kal'Stang said:

Not saying that I agree with the OP in that particular regard but......turn about IS fair play after all. Lord knows I've seen lots of athiests blame the whole of Christianity, Islam etc etc for the bat**** crazy things that people do in the name of their religion.

PS: Its kind of obvious that the guy is an athiest btw. I don't know of anyone of religious background that wants to get rid of all the churches in this country....

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Really? Maybe not all the churches but I've met plenty of evangelicals in the Midwest who would gladly bomb every Catholic church off the face of the Earth if they thought they could get away with it. Sometimes even different Protestant denominations don't care for each other very much.

jamesrage said:

To a certain degree you are right.But in this country instead of atheist bombing stuff they file lawsuits to remove crosses from war memorials, to remove ten command commandment plaques and city seals, and to remove lines from the pledge of allegiance or to try to remove a national motto from our money.

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I give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't know the line in question of the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't in the original.

Loki97 said:

Really? Maybe not all the churches but I've met plenty of evangelicals in the Midwest who would gladly bomb every Catholic church off the face of the Earth if they thought they could get away with it. Sometimes even different Protestant denominations don't care for each other very much.

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You missed my key words...."all the churches". Naturally those evangelicals would not bomb their own.

Kal'Stang said:

You missed my key words...."all the churches". Naturally those evangelicals would not bomb their own.

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Is there any indication this man intended to bomb non Christian churches? If there isn't his plan doesn't qualify either. What is it with the right and this hiding behind literal definitions lately?

Loki97 said:

Is there any indication this man intended to bomb non Christian churches? If there isn't his plan doesn't qualify either. What is it with the right and this hiding behind literal definitions lately?

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Think you missed part of the OP...or didn't read it?

jamesrage said:

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According to court papers, officers found a written journal entry stating "self promote for the next 4 years while beginning list of goals written out in Oklahoma having to do with destroying and removing church buildings from U.S. a tiny bit at a time - setting foundation for the years to follow."

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There was apparently no distinction beyond that of "chruch buildings". Its prolly safe to assume that he wanted them all gone.

You should read the article linked in the OP also. ....

""That's crazy,” said Gayle Edmondson. “It seems like he would want to blow up every church in town.""

Kal'Stang said:

Think you missed part of the OP...or didn't read it?



There was apparently no distinction beyond that of "chruch buildings". Its prolly safe to assume that he wanted them all gone.

You should read the article linked in the OP also. ....

""That's crazy,” said Gayle Edmondson. “It seems like he would want to blow up every church in town.""

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Also from the same article:

" I don't understand why someone would be that upset with Christians"

"Satan's a getting a much greater hold on this world than he ever had before"

"For someone to find that and know about it that was just god's protection for our churches here"

"I believe there is a base of Christians here in the United States and there(sic) prayer is keeping back the hand of terrorist plots"

Now, all those quotes from the article suggest it was solely Christian churches that were targeted. Admittedly, in Miami OK that's probably all there are but I doubt the Scientology churches across the nation were on his hit list.