Terror in the North: The Anders Breivik Affair

I'm not even going to hold back on this one. Breivik is a fucking asshole, and if there was a Hell, he would belong in its deepest, least comfortable reaches. But Anders is hardly the problem. This was an isolated incident. People aren't lining up to commit mass murder. If this sort of thing happened every day, it wouldn't get so much news coverage. We WILL NOT see another such incident in a civilized country for many years to come.

Now that we've got that out of the way, we can get to the real problem: the US conservative media. As many of you may already know, Breivik is a xian (get used to that shorthand) extremist and considers himself a Knight Templar. He will, to his dying breath I'm certain, declare himself among the highest of believers for being a soldier for his god. Now Papa Bear O'Reily, Feckless Beck and others will deny up and down that this man was not, is not, and will never be a xian in any sense of the word. This is an obvious double standard that they have applied to their faith, but refuse to allow for islam. EVERY muslim is a potential terrorist; xians, however, are not xians if they commit some sort of atrocity. What xian would systematically slay dozens of children and leave bombs in cities? I could think of a few...

Xians: own your brood. When you pick up that banner, you take everything that comes with it, for good or ill. You get Jesus and Hitler (a Roman Catholic, believe it or not). You get Robert T. Bakker and the IRA. You take it all, or you admit that your title has no qualifiers, and therefore no meaning.

A post-script: I intentionally do not capitalize the names/titles of religions and religious offices. This is because of the connotation that, in English, something with a capital letter is somehow more important or formal than those words without (proper nouns and such). I do not find anything proper about religion.

And to those who have contemplated the "thought experiment from my last post: whatever amount you may have decided should be awarded in that scenario, congratulations. You have declared that human life has a finite value. The correct answer was: human life has no value, by which I mean it is indeterminable. Or I could mean it has no value. You decide.