Janeane Garofalo Look-Alike Owes Christians an Apology, Me Money
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Jim D. Adkisson is such a big Christian, that he to intended upstage Christ, and martyr himself right in Christ’s house of worship. I’m no expert on Christianity, but that scenario seems somewhat askew.
But maybe my instincts are wrong. Blogger and Janeane Garofalo look-alike, Laura Linger, believes that Adkinsson is actually a “JesusFreak” terrorist, instead of just your run-of-the-mill one. Why, counter-intuitively, does she suspect Adkinsson of being a “christo-fascist”? Because! It conveniently supports pre-conceived notions based on, say it with me, liberal bigotry. That’s why. In her own unfact-checked words:
I’ve been deluged with comments from people protesting…LOUDLY…that the shooter was in fact NOT “a Christian.” NOT “a JesusFreak…
Mmmmmm…nope, sorry. I’m not buying it…He wasn’t affiliated with Christianity? I don’t buy it. If it rants like a JesusFreak, and it thinks its beliefs are more important than anyone else’s, like a JesusFreak, and it engages in terroristic violence against those he doesn’t agree with…well, let’s just a say that a religious whackjob isn’t that hard to identify, and I’m betting his religious background isn’t Muslim.
Laura (I’m addressing you directly now), I’d take that bet. Instead of presenting the known facts, you comfortably turn the victimized group into the victimizers.
You even indulge in the wildest archetype of a Christian Conservative, reducing the population’s collective conscience to; “But hey, they’re all a bunch of LIBRULS, right? Even them kids git what’s comin’ to ‘em.” You’re implying that they are somehow less humane and articulate, because they don’t conform to your sensibilities. It’s cute, but it displays a great unexamined bigotry in itself.
But back to our bet. Though you cited the same source as I have, you neglected to include that the FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime. Also, according to a neighbor, Karen Massey, Adkisson had a certain hostility to adherents of the Bible. She recounted to the Associated Press a conversation they once had about religious study, saying; “He almost turned angry,’ she told the newspaper. ‘He seemed to get angry [over the topic]. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it.”‘
The same source claims that he was latently angry that his parents forced him to attend church for years.
Now this isn’t conclusive proof that the man isn’t a Christian, but it certainly is evidence to the contrary of your ( Laura) wild guess affirmation that he is. I could buy that you were led to believe that this act of violence was similar to the sectarian violence in say, Iraq, and actually most of the underdeveloped world. But this theory was not mentioned in your post, and I, despite my principles, do not administer the benefit of the doubt freely. I find that it is generally difficult for Liberals to see conflict outside of their own paradigms; it’s a mental handicap.
So how much do you owe me Laura? The stakes should have been high, seeing as the odds were stacked against me; or can we quit pretending that people with plastic rimmed glasses are the final authority on anything that’s struck their passing interest?
