Tennesse shooter kills because of church's liberal views

<In my opinion.Christianity TEACHES Intolerance,wich is why I dropped out of the Faith by age 12.>

I'm not arguing the fact that Christianity teaches intolerance; I am arguing that Christianity does not teach insanity. You don't need religion to freak out and start hurting people. On the subject of insanity, my father once snapped out and attacked a perfectly harmless accountant out of a paranoid freak out. Right now my wife is reading a news article aloud about a guy who freaked out on a greyhound bus and stabbed somebody to death for no reason.

You can't blame religion for insanity. Insanity is a medical condition.

<To answer Bill's statement:
Of course believing in a Faith doesn't make one Insane and more apt to commit crimes and kill people but it DOES in fact teach intolerance for those who "may be different than you are" and does make people act criminally. This Tennesee Shooter entered that Church and shot those worshippers watching a children's play in progress becuase that particular Christian Chrch fostered a "different view" of Christianity than his own Church did,it's views were "too liberal" and this shooter believed as he was TAUGHT BY his Faith,that these People were wrong for their Beliefs.
Since the Crusades,Christianity has taught Intolerance wich has stained the Faith's hands with BLOOD!
Religious Faith teaches people to be "one and the same" (same view/same tolerance)and when this teaching crosses into people who may be a "little different" that's where it makes believer's of that Faith do harm to others.>

Jake,

There are many reasons that a person would be attracted to an intolerant and bigoted Christianity. A big one is self hatred. As an advocate for people who suffered rape and molestation during childhood, my wife has been in contact with many women who spent years as members of Christianoid churches and spent years witnessing against the evils of abortion, feminism, and homosexuality. Once they started actual therapy, they looked back at those years and said, "what was I thinking?" For many people the Christianoid churches are places where people can "act out" their neurosis and traumas in an atmosphere where they are not going to be encouraged to actually get help and face the traumas that drove them into these churches in the first place.

Since most people who go to the Christianoid churches are fooling themselves, it makes them vulnerable to every con-artist, huckster, and liar who comes down the pike. This is why the PR companies chose specific churches to be their propaganda mills. You might have noticed that the shooter did not come out of a Methodist Church. He came out of a denomination that actually did preach that African-Americans were inferior and that black skin was the "Mark of Cain". Believe it or not, back in the 70s, I actually knew African-Americans who belonged to these churches as they suffered the same self-esteem issues as the women I was talking about.

Belief in religion is not in itself a sign of mental illness. If it were, you would find Unitarians and neopagans shooting up A of G churches. In fact I have been watching the Ron Paul campaign with growing horror as I watch the Libertarian pundits organize people with issues stemming from religion abuse and authority issues into voting for the exact same candidates as the Christianoids. Quite often people who are disillusioned with the hypocrisy of the Christianoid preachers simply goose step from the fascist Christianoids to the Libertarian Fascists.

To sum it up, the religion was not responsible for the shooter's actions, his actions were responsible for his religion.

Jake,

<Would YOU Peter,as a Black Man,be so close to your Jesus and a committed believer of your Faith,if your Faith pushed upon you,that simply by being Born of the Negroid Race wich made your skin color darker than that of a Caucasian (white)Man,you were "sick,inferior and unclean"? I think NOT!>
I think I've already said, that's why I'm not a Mormon. I have also said that I understand why you are not a Christian.

I don't expect most people to follow the teachings of Jesus. I'm just saying that (even if you don't believe Jesus was a real person) neither Jesus, nor anything in the New Testament, teaches disciples to do harm to others.