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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 11:59 AM Nov 2017

Jesus freak blames 'atheism" for Texas shooting...

Notice how this asshole never mentions the "Christian" in Las Vegas.

Matt Barber Says Groups Like PFAW, SPLC And The ACLU Are Partially Responsible For Texas Church Shooting

During a recent appearance on Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program, right-wing activist Matt Barber said that People For the American Way, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and other organizations were partially responsible for the church shooting in Texas last weekend that left more than 20 people dead.

“We need to look at the bigger picture here,” Barber said. “This thing didn’t happen in a vacuum. We need to understand that it is this anti-Christian climate here in the United States … This was a man who hated Jesus, he hated Christians and he literally was engaged in an act of war against Christians.”

“What spurred him on? What caused him to do this?” Barber asked, linking the Texas massacre to the shooting at the Family Research Council in 2012, which right-wing activists routinely blame on the SPLC. “I’m not going to say this is all in the lap of the Southern Poverty Law Center, but Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the SPLC, groups like People For the American Way, Americans United Against Separation of Church and State [sic], the ACLU—don’t forget, Roger Baldwin famously said, ‘Communism is the goal’—communism is atheism, atheism is communism, it’s leftism, they hate Christians, they hate Christianity. So we are seeing a climate of anti-Christian hate and bigotry that I think was the foundation, perhaps even the justification, that this monster used in his own mind to rationalize taking out these precious souls and followers of Christ Jesus.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/matt-barber-says-groups-like-pfaw-splc-and-the-aclu-are-partially-responsible-for-texas-church-shooting/

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Jesus freak blames 'atheism" for Texas shooting... (Original Post) Archae Nov 2017 OP
"Anti-Christian climate" - I bet he's not refering to Trump. DetlefK Nov 2017 #1
This is the radical religious leaders talking points. Lars39 Nov 2017 #2
The religious right has sown the seeds of their own destruction GulfCoast66 Nov 2017 #3

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. "Anti-Christian climate" - I bet he's not refering to Trump.
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:18 PM
Nov 2017

The Evangelicals are supporting a lying, selfish, vengeful, greedy man. The opposite of everything Jesus Christ stood for. But it's the others who are anti-Christian. Yeah...

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
3. The religious right has sown the seeds of their own destruction
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:41 PM
Nov 2017

When Trump is gone their hypocrisy will no longer have cover. They have wrapped themselves up so tightly with racism there is no undoing it.

Young people are fleeing religion and more of the true believers are on to their game.

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