Originally Posted by Guest

Several have posted how this terrorist was not a Christian, not affiliated or whatever, apparently to diffuse any suggestion that fundamental Christianity could have motivated him. Because of course any terrorist action by any Muslim should, by the view of many, be justification for an effort to wipe out all Muslim worship in this country and we therefore must be clear that using that logic, if this man is a fundamentalist Christian we would be compelled to wipe out all Christian worship in America.
Well here you are, the first evidence:

People who have known or met Dear say he wasn’t a regular churchgoer. But they also report that he believed devoutly in the Bible and that he claimed to have read it “cover to cover.” In an online forum, Dear apparently spoke of Jesus and the “end times.” He painted or posted crosses on at least three of his homes.

There you go, fundamentalism in all faiths is the problem. Not the faith itself, but the extreme interpretation of its precepts, often to the exclusion of its gentler, more peaceful and inclusive and representative of social justice and tolerance of the larger faith community. So just as I would not condemn all Christianity for this man, I will not condemn all Islam for some of their fundamentalist radicals.