When you think of terrorism you think of Islamic terrorism let's be honest with each other
and it's odd because there are a lot of Christian terrorist organizations terrorist organizations
of all religions but Christianity world's biggest religion has its terrorist they don't
get so much PR thought we want to correct that so we're going to be doing a brief overview
of some just some of the Christian terrorist organizations that are either still operating
or have operated over the past few years and have accrued quite a body count of their own
this information by the way I want credit was put together of Alex Henderson of AlterNet
who did a job of briefly summing up some Christian terrorist organizations we're going to talk
about three the first is the army of god a network of violent Christians that has been
active since the early 1980's the army of god opening promotes killing abortion providers
has included multiple convicted terrorist and murderers amongst its ranks and advocates
for the killing of homosexuals now this is especially relevant in the American context
because we have people like Eric Rudolph John Salvi like we have a number of people that
have made news the killer of George Tiller who were members of that organization killed
him in church went into a church to kill him in front of other people worshiping the Jesus
the prince of peace they went in and killed him cause that's what Jesus would want you
to do yeah well he is so focused on peace that we need to take care of the killing for
him yes they don't ever get around to doing it he's too busy helping people curing them
he doesn't have enough time to kill anybody who is he going to un-maim if we don't maim
people the guy who wiped out the whole population of the girl with a flood just couldn't handle
one doctor in Kansas he needed ne needed assistant he needed a hand like Vader OK the second
is the eastern lightning which by the way that is a pretty badass name also known as
the Chruch of the Almighty God or the Church of the Gospel's Kingdom it is a Christianist
cult with an end-time apocalypse focus this is off in China by the way eastern lighting
believes that the world is coming to an end and in the meantime its duty is to slay as
many demons as possible that is not metaphorically they indentify people that they see as being
demons and beat or even kill them and historically they have killed a number of different people
in that context also Christians the second one is the Lord's resistance army you might
have actually heard of this one thanks to the kony campaign founded by joseph kony in
Uganda in 1987 it's called for the establishment of a Christian fundamentalist government the
LRA according to human rights watch as commited thousands of killings and kidnappings thousands
yes thousands thousands thousands that's a lot how many died in 9/11 thousands oh OK
thousands so that was a Muslim fundamentalist terrorism and this is Christian fundamental
terrorism and how many did they kill thousands also killed thousands yes still Muslims are
worse I still think the Muslim are worse you know why why is that cause I don't know any
know any that's why know what they're like but they seem I've met Cenk's dad he still
seems very scary to me exactly yes I'll be in a room with him but not with my back turned
no no no no you watch he's going to cut your head exactly and the scary thing is that we
have this things in this country where it doesn't matter if you're from Africa or if
your ancestors are from Africa and you say that you're Christian nope I get to declare
that your Muslim for some reason you can't be a Christian and come from Africa specially
I'm referring to both Kony and Obama in the same sentence probably going to put me in
some trouble so look this is just three there are many obviously some larger than others
some that have committed more acts of terror and murder than others obviously and yet you
don't hear about these and even when and individual who might associate with one of these groups
like with army of god they've had numerous instances of domestic terrorists coming from
that organization in America over the past two decades you don't hear about their affiliation
with these groups and if somebody talks about it in the news then it's being anti-conservative
it's being biased conservatives or against Christianity I mean didn't and that's interesting
didn't you do a story didn't TYT do a story recently that some of the people we've trained
to fight ISIS in Iraq doing exactly the same kind of thing cutting people's heads off and
putting them on their tanks and stuff like that right they're on our side they're on
our side yes doing the same thing didn't get as much press in America no you know why I
don't know any Muslims don't know them don't trust them I don't like them it's it's again
it's the it's the whoever the military industrial complex needs to have as a boogie man so we
spend way more money fighting something that doesn't have any these guys don't even have
a fucking plane and we're sending soldiers and billions of dollars to fight them in the
middle east do they have a jet john does ISIS have a jet they physically have jets I don't
know that they can actually operate them maybe they captured a few jets I mean it's this
is nothing more right we're so what we're doing here is showing there's a lot of Christian
fundamentalist maniac terrorists right killing thousands of people but we don't get the press
there because I don't maybe I'm going to just put a guess that maybe the press here is white
and Christian I don't know maybe maybe that's that it is and look many people are going
to say well look most of the press probably atheists that's trust but they still were
mostly I'd assume brought up in Christian households and you retain some of the biases
even if you no longer personally associate with the religion or see yourself being a
member of it and I wonder wonder if it's going to change like you had in the years before
9/11 you did have acts of Islamic terrorism and I think that it was very easy in the media
even then before 9/11 to demonize Muslims you saw in hollywood where they are the villains
it went from Russians from Russians to terrorists because then we became friendly with Russian
we have to fight another bad guy we found them let's go back to Russians I think we
found them it was Russian and then but then they were fighting against the Russians they
were our pals during the 80's and then as soon as we became pals with the Russians turns
out we don't fucking like you guys anymore we're going to have to go give us all those
weapons back we don't want to give them back alright we'll just kill you and that's exactly
what we're doing how do you know they have those weapons we looked at receipt do you
do you see it changing I mean I wonder noooo but like are you there are fewer Christians
in America every year than there were the year before that's a trend that's continuing
it may stop at some point or reverse is there a threshold at which we can critically look
at a person's terrorist organization regardless of religious identification I wonder is it
50% is it 20% like if somebody blew up a building in America and they were hardcore Buddhists
or Hindus or Jains or they identified with Shinto but like we would identify that as
being part of their identify but not Timothy McVeigh never even went to church as far I
know we go beyond on we don't just not identify we take the organization inside of the FBI
that are tasked with investigating domestic conservative extremist organization and we
disband it disbanded them preemptively we disband I don't know if that's going to change
but I feel like we probably should look into it so I get I just want to I would like you
know make the point that people want to right now there's a big push to say hey we need
to focus everything on muslim terrorist they're the worse thing in the world aren't they worse
than Christians aren't they worse than jews aren't worse than Buddhists I had a guy say
to me I had a guy say to me hey would you rather have a country run my Buddhists have
a nuclear weapons or a country run by Muslims have a nuclear weapon I got I don't know I
wouldn't want to have a country run by Christians have a nuclear cause they're the only ones
who fucking dropped one we dropped two of them by the way and we didn't need to but
if you asked MaCarthur and Eisenhower they say we didn't even need to drop the first
nuclear bomb on Japan and we did it anyway Japan was looking for a way to surrender so
again trying to make out that there's another religion that even worse than Christianity
there's nothing worse than the crusades there's nothing worse than dropping nuclear bombs
there's nothing worse than invading Iraq George Bush said he asked his they said did you ask
your father for advice on the Iraq invasion and he said I asked my heavenly father and
then he called it a crusade so here we are a Christian guy invading another Muslim country
killing hundreds of thousands of people ordering torture and war crimes to cover it up but
we're see because here's the big difference terrorism is the violence of the weak and
we condemn it war is the violence of the strong and we glorify it which why when I got to
Rose Bowl I have to watch a fucking B1 bomber fly over and everybody salute and cheer it
a fucking weapon of death everyone yeah OK it's because that would you cheer a jihadist
with a with a pipe or suicide bomber because that's that's their war terrorism is the is
the war of weak and and our conventional war is the war of the strong and that's so don't
quit pretending we're different we're not we killed way more people we've killed way
more people so this bullshit that somehow we're going to be angrier or more scared of
Muslims than Christians fundamentalism is an illness that effects every religion right
now we've got Buddhists Buddhists are cutting people's heads off right we done we've covered
that story so you know are there are anyway I just wanted to say that