Polianiac

The Knoxville News Sentinel is reporting this morning that a four-page “manifesto” has been recovered from the car of Jim D. Adkisson, the man who evidentially thought it was okay to carry a gun into God’s House on Sunday morning and kill two innocent people, while wounding at least seven others.

Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen said the shooter was, “…Frustrated about not being able to obtain a job and how much he hated the liberal movement.” It reminds me of another time when churches became the focal point for political violence.

On September 15, 1963, a bomb was thrown into the 16^th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. That bomb killed four little girls, sitting in their Sunday school room. It was a sad, but historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement… another liberal movement.  I would like to believe that those who commit these acts are not concerned with ever coming face-to-face with God.  I want to believe they are non-believers, as opposed to some radical version of true believer—those that believe they are in fact, doing God’s work.

Funny isn’t it, that in his time, politically speaking, Jesus himself was a liberal.

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