Police: Man shot churchgoers over liberal views

Police: Man shot churchgoers over liberal views

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 12 minutes ago

Knoxville's police chief says the man accused of a shooting that killed two people at a Tennessee church targeted the congregation because of its liberal social stance.

Chief Sterling Owen IV said Monday that police found a letter in Jim D. Adkisson's car. Owen said Adkisson was apparently frustrated over being out of work and had a "stated hatred of the liberal movement."

Adkisson is charged with first-degree murder. Police say a gunman entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church during a children's performance Sunday. No children were hurt.

The church is known for advocating women's and gay rights and founding an American Civil Liberties Union chapter.

Canuck wrote:For Bman there should be another festival, call it ObamaFest.
Everyday is ObamaFest for Bman..

Haha, I was thinking someone would do a "DoePost" in this thread.

Congrats Bman, you covered it all except you didn't McDisCain. Slowing down in your old age, huh?

I read this bit of news on Sunday I think. A shame stuff like this happens.

Karen Massey, who lived two houses from Adkisson's home, told the Knoxville News Sentinel of a lengthy conversation she had with Adkisson a couple years ago after she told him her daughter had just graduated from Johnson Bible College. She said she ended up having to explain to him that she was a Christian.

"He almost turned angry," she told the newspaper. "He seemed to get angry at that. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it."

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:I don't think he was even a member of that church, if any, was he? Anybody been able to come up with that? Now, I have to get back to cleaning all of my guns since I'm a radical christian.

Markwes wrote:Since this has of course become political, here is a quote from a neighbor of the guy:

Karen Massey, who lived two houses from Adkisson's home, told the Knoxville News Sentinel of a lengthy conversation she had with Adkisson a couple years ago after she told him her daughter had just graduated from Johnson Bible College. She said she ended up having to explain to him that she was a Christian.

"He almost turned angry," she told the newspaper. "He seemed to get angry at that. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it."

Does this sound like a "radical Christian"?

Bman wrote:

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:I don't think he was even a member of that church, if any, was he? Anybody been able to come up with that? Now, I have to get back to cleaning all of my guns since I'm a radical christian.

You don't have to clean your guns, just "cling" to them ... ok?

"He indicated also in that letter that he expected to be in there shooting people until the police arrived and he fully expected to be killed by the responding police," he said.

moondrop wrote:This is another sad story. It should not have happened. The shooter was way out of line and should pay the price, no matter what their beliefs are. By the way this organization does not believe in the whole bible, including the power of Christ's blood shed for us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism

moondrop wrote:Thanks Meta, I realized that and was fixing my post when you were writing yours.

cardinal5150 wrote:Regardless... the issue is one guy didn't think the other guys were worshiping right so he shot them.. again.. a great example of Christian compassion. And yes.. I'm referring to the fact that anything when taken to the extreme is dangerous.

Why can't we go back to the days where you worried about your house, not your neighbors? Whatever they did was their business, not yours.

cardinal5150 wrote:Regardless... the issue is one guy didn't think the other guys were worshiping right so he shot them.. again.. a great example of Christian compassion. And yes.. I'm referring to the fact that anything when taken to the extreme is dangerous.

Why can't we go back to the days where you worried about your house, not your neighbors? Whatever they did was their business, not yours.

Mort wrote:well at least they got off their arse's this time and took the guy down!

Unlike some school shootings I've heard about

Religion has cause more deaths and wars then money or any other subject

Jugomugo wrote:Because it seems a lot of radical christians seem to think there is a "war" going on... we should really start treating them the same way we treat muslims. Apparently in a "time of war" they feel it is ok to be fuck tards.

Markwes wrote:

Mort wrote:well at least they got off their arse's this time and took the guy down!

Unlike some school shootings I've heard about

Religion has cause more deaths and wars then money or any other subject

I agree with your first statement, but again, where does it say anywhere that this guy was associated with religion? To me he sounded like an athiest. Are you saying the members of this church were somehow responsible??

meta4 wrote:

Markwes wrote:

Mort wrote:well at least they got off their arse's this time and took the guy down!

Unlike some school shootings I've heard about

Religion has cause more deaths and wars then money or any other subject

I agree with your first statement, but again, where does it say anywhere that this guy was associated with religion? To me he sounded like an athiest. Are you saying the members of this church were somehow responsible??

No Markwes. Mort's comment was similar to his signature. People are willing to kill and die for their tiny little speck of a personal perspective of the most infinite being in the universe.

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