Talk about scary.

I understand your points here. The thing that gets to me is that I think I may have been generous when I said they knew better. It’s actually more frightening to think they believe it.

I live in Pensacola, FL where Paul Hill decided to take a shotgun and shoot a doctor who provided abortions. He also killed an escort. I’ve preached at the escort’s home church. Paul Hill’s act was a terrorist act and he should not be distinguished from other terrorists.

I cannot imagine from reading what they have written that they even believe the charge themselves.

I should point out Henry that this at least consistent with much of their other writings, I imagine.

It’s an amazing place over at UD, and I must admit that I can’t quite wrap my mind around what causes this sort of behavior.

I’ve re-read this post several times, and they clearly suggest that comparing the killing of doctors at abortion clinics to other terrorists is a great distortion of the truth that only a dangerous fanatic like Kevin Padian would do.

If Padian can’t tell the difference between a mass murdering suicide bomber indiscriminately blowing up crowds of people and a gunman carefully selecting a single target for murder then Padian simply isn’t playing with a full deck and one has to hope he never decides to murder anyone because he isn’t able to distinguish between killing a crowd of strangers and a single person against whom he holds a grudge.

Perhaps I misread it. But the logic seems dangerously close to:

indescriminately killing with a bomb = terrorism
sniping someone with a gun = settling a grudge

Talk about scary.

Note: Edited to correct blockquotes. — HN