Authorities said 21 people were killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School. The gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, was killed by responding officers.
The reason (or a reason, at least) fundamentalist right-wing Christian Republicans don’t care about coming up with a solution to this is because of their brand of Christianity. They believe that the apocalypse is coming soon, Jesus will return soon, and that all the shittiness in the world (gun violence, poverty, climate change, etc.) is due to that and because in Christianity the apocalypse is a good thing (Christians will go to heaven), they want to hasten it. Fundamentalist American Christianity and the reactionary thought that accompanies it must be destroyed if any of us want to survive even the next decade.
As an outside observer, I cannot fathom how this sort of evangelical doomsday cult has actually formed many decades before the US-American social fabric irreversibly went down the shitter. Like how tf do you have a regular childhood, go to a regular school, have regular hobbies, work a regular job, get married, buy the same groceries every week for 60 years, and afford a cookie-cutter house in the suburbs; all the while believing, in your heart of hearts, that the end of time is nigh and that God will possess and abduct your and every other Christian’s naked body within mere days, and believing this shit hard enough to motivate you towards political action?
I think thats more of a back of the mind sort of thing, I haven’t seen anything that would make this reason so. Although I would not be surprised if this were the case.
I agree, I don’t think many (or any?) of them are consciously thinking “I Must Hasten The Apocalypse As Foretold By The Book Of Revelations,” but it’s something embedded within fundamentalist Christianity here. My mom and I were discussing it yesterday.
The reason (or a reason, at least) fundamentalist right-wing Christian Republicans don’t care about coming up with a solution to this is because of their brand of Christianity. They believe that the apocalypse is coming soon, Jesus will return soon, and that all the shittiness in the world (gun violence, poverty, climate change, etc.) is due to that and because in Christianity the apocalypse is a good thing (Christians will go to heaven), they want to hasten it. Fundamentalist American Christianity and the reactionary thought that accompanies it must be destroyed if any of us want to survive even the next decade.
As an outside observer, I cannot fathom how this sort of evangelical doomsday cult has actually formed many decades before the US-American social fabric irreversibly went down the shitter. Like how tf do you have a regular childhood, go to a regular school, have regular hobbies, work a regular job, get married, buy the same groceries every week for 60 years, and afford a cookie-cutter house in the suburbs; all the while believing, in your heart of hearts, that the end of time is nigh and that God will possess and abduct your and every other Christian’s naked body within mere days, and believing this shit hard enough to motivate you towards political action?
I think thats more of a back of the mind sort of thing, I haven’t seen anything that would make this reason so. Although I would not be surprised if this were the case.
I agree, I don’t think many (or any?) of them are consciously thinking “I Must Hasten The Apocalypse As Foretold By The Book Of Revelations,” but it’s something embedded within fundamentalist Christianity here. My mom and I were discussing it yesterday.