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The senseless murder of the Baptist pastor in Illinois Sunday proves only one thing; the campaign to vilify and demonize Christians continues unabated.

In June of 2007, I wrote an article titled; So, its a broken fish. The article was about the growing intolerance for Christians in America. It also highlighted the growing number of murders, tortures, imprisonments and beatings of Christians worldwide.

The article also talked about the wife of a Christian pastor who had just received a sentence of 60 days in jail for murdering him in cold blood. The article pointed out with factual evidence that there was a growing animosity and prejudice against Christians in the U.S. and worldwide.

After posting the article, I did a search of the web to find current anti-Christian stories. Surprisingly, I found most on many of the major gay web sites. Not only did the stories and postings express a high level of hatred towards Christians, but the commenter’s who read and commented on the stories expressed an anger and almost sociopathic hatred for all Christians.

In an effort to show the readers and authors of these other web sites a balanced point of view, I posted a link back to my June 2007 article. I was not prepared for the vile comments, seething hatred and personal attacks I was about to experience.

Do as we say, not as we do

It�s funny about the gay community; the level of hypocrisy that is allowed to exist. After all, this is a subgroup within American society who has instructed the rest of us about the need for tolerance and acceptance. Their universal hatred of Christians seems to fly in the face of their own mantra.

More recently, the debate in California over Proposition 8 touched off a national firestorm that sought to further demonize Christians and alienate Christians from the rest of society. A massive propaganda campaign that emanated from the gay community and reinforced by the news media, was found in headlines everywhere.

Nobody outside the church ever took a minute to understand the true message from within the church. The church�s position, the position of Christians, has always been that marriage is a sacred institution, that it is the foundation of the nuclear family and basis for producing the next generation. The position has never been an anti-gay agenda. Every human was created by God, and no real Christian ever loses sight of this.

But what did we hear from the gay community and news organizations everywhere; Christians are anti-gay, intolerant and hate mongers.

The senseless shooting in Maryville, Illinois

The murder of the pastor in Illinois is evidence that the intolerance is on the side of the anti-Christians, not the Christians. It wasn�t that long ago, in December of 2007, that we saw a shooter walk into a Christian organization in Colorado and begin shooting. News accounts said that the shooter �hated Christians.�

We saw this with the murder of Rami Khader, the owner of a Christian bookstore in Gaza. We witnessed it with the burning of 10 Baptist churches in Alabama in 2006 and we saw it also at the schoolhouse in the Amish community.

Everything we know about Pastor Fred Winters of the First Baptist Church of Maryville was that he was a good guy. I watched a video of him (see below) and he seemed like a soft spoken, likeable and approachable person.

He had a wife and two young daughters. Why someone�s hatred for Christians should result in the death of this good person is beyond the scope of most thinking people to imagine. The bottom line is that there is a wife and two young girls who will suffer years of sadness because of the act of one person motivated by a growing movement in this country.

A misinformed population

Some news agencies are already trying to pin the assailants� actions on Lyme disease, which has not been medically proven to lead its sufferers to murder. Others report that the motive is �unknown.�� None have delved into the communications and forums and web articles of the population of Americans who loathe Christians. There, one finds enough propaganda for a legion of future murderers.

About half of all teenagers in America today characterize themselves as Atheist, Agnostic or Wiccan. They have taken a drastic departure from the �non-church goers� of the past and publically proclaimed their belief that there is no God.

Unlike the people who did not attend church when I was young, these modern non-Christians do not take a benign attitude towards Christians. On the contrary, they have a visceral hatred and loathing for Christians. They see Christians as the enemy based on a litany of false beliefs and teachings. They have no real understanding of the basic tenants of the Christian religion, but harbor a deep animosity based on misinformation.

Hate on one side; love on the other

Much of this misinformation is dispensed by the gay community. Many in the leadership and at the grassroots level have disseminated false and misleading information about Christians. As noted earlier, the accuse Christians of being intolerant and hate mongers.

On the web site of the church in Maryville, they ask that you pray for the assailant and his family. I can�t think of any other group in America who would ask for prayers for the person who just murdered someone they love so much. This is the essence of the Christian religion; to strive to be like Christ.

When my own pastor preaches on Sunday morning, he always distinguishes between the sin and the sinner. The sinner is a child of God, while the sin is something that does not please God. There is a big difference. Because of this approach, true Christians do not hate members of the gay community. They just can�t endorse their lifestyle choice. Is this justification for a swelling hatred of Christians? It is a one-way hatred, if that�s the case.

Taking an eraser to our Christian heritage

Led by the ACLU, the strong connection between our country�s founders and founding documents and Christianity, is being displaced with revisionist history. The true importance of Christianity to America, going back to the Mayflower, has been usurped by a pop culture version created by Christian-haters in academia, Hollywood, agenda-driven organizations and book authors.

This amalgamation of Christian-haters repeats terms like �separation of church and state,� �the Crusades,� �anti-gay� and �intolerance� to brainwash legions of young people who never receive any balanced information. They are indoctrinated into this culture of anti-Christian hate because they are surrounded by its purveyors.

In the end, we are left with incidents like the one in Maryville, Illinois. Senseless acts of murder and violence with origins in a subculture that spews hatred based on misinformation. While Christians receive no additional protections under U.S. law; they should. The incident in Maryville is not isolated and will only spur on others with a sociopathic hatred of people who practice the Christian faith.

The true history of Christianity in this country and others is the same. Christians collect food for poor people, collect gifts for poor children to provide them with a happy Christmas, build schools and homes and hospitals for poor people and poor populations, provide a safe-haven for those that are victims of domestic violence and offer a shoulder to cry on when people face the death of a loved one. These are things that Christians do every day.

Below is a short video of Pastor Fred Winters. This is not the face of hatred, but someone who clearly cared about other people.

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Investigators of the senseless shooting of Christians in Colorado allege that the shooter was one Matthew Murray.  My contention, in my previous posting, was that the shooter would be discovered to be a Christian-hater, a product of the far-left.

From a story on the FoxNews website:

The law enforcement official said Murray was believed to be the gunman in both attacks. Murray did not appear to have a criminal history but “hated Christians,” the official said. The official did not know Murray’s religion, if any.

Hatred of Christians is a growing movement among America’s young people. It has much in common with the fanatical Islamo-fascists who are brain-washed to kill Christians.  Both groups base their beliefs on false premises and a deranged mentality that has at it’s core the elimination of all people of Christian faith. 

The  movement is creating an army of serial killers in our midst who will likely repeat the same senseless violence.