Think Islamists Are the Only Religious Terrorists? Meet Some Famous Killers for Christ

In 1997, Christian terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph planted
and detonated a homemade bomb at the Atlanta
LGBT bar the Otherside Lounge.

The next time someone tries to tell you that Islam produces the only violent religious extremists of the world, show them these examples.

By David Ferguson / Raw Story 

President Barack Obama raised hackles on the Christian right this week during his address to the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast.

In the wake of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris by Islamic extremists and the atrocities committed on video by ISIS, Obama urged Christians not to get too complacent in their view of Islam as a violent religion and Christianity as a peaceful one.

“Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” said the president. “Slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Conservatives greeted this assertion with their usual unflappable calm and equanimity, which is to say, of course, that they pretty much all started screaming and soiling themselves at once.

But because we’re so nice here at the Raw Story Historic Corrections Desk, we thought we’d share some examples of Christian extremist violence for the edification of our right-leaning friends who seem to believe that it’s nothing but Christmas trees and Easter lilies on their side of the church as opposed to IEDs and lynching ropes.

Let’s begin, shall we?  READ MORE