If you are shot in the head if you say you are a Christian and not if you say you are not then you have borne witness to Christ in your death. Standard definition of a martyr: the definition we use when people are martyred in Libya, Egypt, Nigeria and Iraq.
And now in Oregon.
A 26-year-old gunman singled out Christians for slaughter during a rampage at an Oregon community college Thursday, leaving at least 9 people dead and many more wounded, survivors and authorities said.
“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” tweeted “@bodhilooney,” who said her grandmother was inside the Umpqua Community College classroom that was the scene of the 10:40 a.m. carnage.
“If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”
Student Kortney Moore, 18, said she was attending a Writing 115 class inside the Roseburg college’s Snyder Hall when a bullet pierced a window, the southwestern Oregon city’s News-Review newspaper reported.
She saw her teacher get shot in the head and said the gunman asked people to state their religion before he opened fire.
If we did not have martyrs in the USA in modern times, the post modern times are making up for it. The wind is being sown: expect the whirlwind.
Whew! That’s OK then. Just as long as the dead were not atheist, progressive, gay, transgender or Muslim. Any of those would a victim of the latest “ïst” label and the shooter would be condemned rather than seen as nice but misguided. Liberterians will be pleased that religion is once again proven to be very dangerous and should be banned.
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