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sheila vanohlen

On Jeanne Assam: "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" That goes for you, him her and them over there too, right? Both biblical canonical testaments are open to interpretation by whoever does it, and the books included were selected by councils of human beings. There is no exception to not kill given, by the deity in the Book of Moses. Moses however, after destroying the first set of commandments in anger, tells his followers to all start killing one another as punishment for the holy cow thing. It does not matter what anyone thinks. Someone else will think some THING else, so one ideology never really rules all else. Governmental laws are a bit different. Once disambiguated, there is no more room for interpretation, only legislatively changing the law, or sending a challenge to it through the courts is valid.

Shooting Shooters and Those Who Get Shot -

Preface: Shootings and Other Violence First - Please, whatever you think of Caesar or even a simple citizen of Rome, do an autopsy of his body AND examine his life before you praise, revile, or come to bury him or his crime, no matter how senseless it seems.

Pharmacaea: The Legal Chemical Sorcery of the Pharmaceutical Industry - Can you be 100% responsible for for your own actions when you are told your meds are harmless, or even good for you, or you are actually required by your school to take them? Are these kids in prescription drug withdrawal or medicated little Oracles of Apollo, seated over the Omphalos of Pharmaceutical companies, inhaling the venom of Python in pill form?

Columbine shooters, Klebold and Harris, were both on anti-depressants. They filled their unfinished adolescent minds/brains by playing violent video games. They listened to what have been depicted as "Satanic" and definitely anti- Christian music and lyrics of Marilyn Manson.

There is now a Grand Theft Auto violence level "Christian" video game called "Left behind: Eternal Forces. The game using MicroSoft Halo 3, is being used to attract teenage boys to evangelical churches, and notably, in Color ado. (See Photo With Article) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/us/07halo.html The game's object is to kill as many New Yorkers as possible, after the an end times theology taught "Rapture", disappears many from the planet. Those left behind can get to heaven if they murder some quantity of New York City's people. New York is no stranger to what was officially found to be religious extremist violence. There seem to be no points given for obeying the Mosaic Law of "Thou Shalt Not Kill", or the Christian "Love Thy Neighbor", or "Turn the Other Cheek" or "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You" or "Whatsoever You Do To The Least Of My Brothers, That You Do Unto Me".

Robert Hawkins had a history of making both suicidal statements and making violent threats. He entered into the state family legal system, because he had threatened to kill his step mother in 2002 when he must have been around 14 years old. Hawkins had been placed on anti-depressant therapy. Flouride molecule based SSRI's pharmaceuticals state in their prescription information sheet something to the effect that even in non-suicidal people especially adolescents, violent or suicidal behavior is a possible side effect and thefore is contraindicated in these cases. Accutane, the anti-acne drug taken by 15 year old otherwise drug and alcohol free honor student Charles Bishop who stole and flew a small plane into the Bank of America building in Tampa Florida in April 2002, was sited as the cause for his suicidal act. He'd been on the drug since April 2001. The incident was also a sad reminder of the massive security failure of debacle of 9-11-01. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/16/health/main506331.shtml

Now, that said, the New Life Church/Youth With A Mission (YWAM) shootings centered around religion, in the mind of shooter Matthew Murray. The Scofield Reference Bible belief system, or something like it is taught within the former pastor and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, disgraced Rev. Ted Haggart's New Life Church. That end times themed annotated tome was the first teaching of it's kind, in promoting end times theology. It came from the Plymouth Brethren sect in 1800's England, preached by Rev. John Nelson Darby.

Interestingly Aleister Crowley, the 20th century's foremost Satanist, was also raised in and rebelled against the Plymouth Brethren sect. The Scofield Bible was printed by the Oxford Press, and brought to America, spread rapidly with the support of European central bank operatives like Samuel Untermeyer (Untermeyer's former estate, now a park in Yonkers, NY was a hangout for Son of Sam 44 Caliber Killer, David Berkowitz and his Process Church "Satanists" associates. Colorado church shooter, Matthew Murray rebelled also against his strict brand of Christianity. His brother Chris goes to Oral Roberts University, demonstrating perhaps an example of the deeply religious nature of their upbringing. Both Scofield's side notes, and Crowley's teachings advocate producing accelerated spiritual change in the world. Crowley promoted and wrote incantations, pornographic poetry, drug use meditation, yoga, extreme sex "majick", trance, lights music chanting and other sound in demonic evocation and invocation rituals, also referred to as invoking one's "Holy Guardian Angel" or "Demon Brother".

Modern Christian Evangelism uses the Scofield model, promotional literature, music and singing, PowerPoint presentations, even violent video games (essentially light shows with with a message and screen flicker related brain effects), denial of the sexual impulse, lectures, mission oriented youth evangelism activities, all aiming to "receive the spirit" or "share the spirit" or accept Jesus as one's "personal savior". Drugs, alcohol, and sexual indulgence seems reserved for senior leadership.

The New Life Church infiltrated a controlling system of pastors into the neighboring Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Chaplains of other denominations and religions are sidelined for orientation and prayer events, strongly imposed on cadets. The academy's head has been heard stating that the United States of America is a Christian country.

Wiccan upright Pentacle symbols have now been allowed on military cemetery grave markers for fallen Wiccan soldiers, just as crosses and six pointed stars had always previously been. Satanic inverted Pentagrams have not as yet been. One outspoken former Church of Satan member, US Army intelligence officer who wrote the Pentagon's guide for PsyOps (Mind Wars) , Col. Michael Aquino, once appeared on both Oprah, and on Geraldo to deny Satanist involvement in the rash of reports of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), such as in the McMartin School case. He and his wife, Lilith did have their own legal brushes, being accused by kids at a California Army base day care center. No convictions were made. They went on to found an Egyptian mystery based religion called the "Temple of Set". The Church of Satan has roots in the late Anton LaVey's writings, much of which was ripped off from other authors, and whose beliefs were based on the writings of Aleister Crowley. Notably Crowley's "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law", and "Love is the law, love under will".

As most Christian sects did, throughout even early history through to today, not just during the Reformation, Satanists have also gone through theological splits, infighting, and interfaith suspicions, jealousies and accusations of murder.

In any case is religion itself a sufficient cause or violence or does improper prescription of mind altering pharmaceutical drugs enough? The two in combination, at least in the shooting in Colorado of recent years seem to mutually enhance the effect of either.

Violence whether drug induced or precipitated by religious extremist views and hatred is in desperate need of critical and as much as possible emotion free analysis. "Why" and "How" are the most important questions on the path to stopping any problem.

Again it does not matter what anyone believes, because everyone believes something else. Where the median view exists, or most popular views hold, the result is law and changes to them. In America, we market inclusiveness as part of the democratic ideals which our republic was founded on. Removing any view point from the discussion weakens us all, and strengthens ideologies behind banned speech, making martyrs out of even it's most ridiculous proponents.

Yeah, a rifle with a 30-round clip really comes in handy when you're deer hunting. (In case you miss with the first 29 shots).