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Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:28pm On Apr 08, 2015
Violent Christianists are a
reality in different parts of the world—including the
United States—and the fact that the mainstream
media don’t give them as much coverage as ISIS or
Boko Haram doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
Below are six extreme Christianist groups that have
shown their capacity for violence and fanaticism.

1. The Army of God
A network of violent Christianists that has been active
since the early 1980s, the Army of God openly
promotes killing abortion providers—and the long
list of terrorists who have been active in that
organization has included Paul Jennings Hill (who
was executed by lethal injection in 2003 for the 1994
killings of abortion doctor John Britton and his
bodyguard James Barrett), John C. Salvi (who killed
two receptionists when he attacked a Planned
Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts in
1994) and Eric Rudolph, who is serving life in prison
for his role in the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in
1996 and other terrorist acts. Rudolph, in fact, has
often been exalted as a Christian hero on the Army of
God’s website, as have fellow Army of God members
such as Scott Roeder (who is serving life without
parole for murdering Wichita, Kansas-based abortion
doctor George Tiller in 2009), Shelley Shannon (who
attempted to kill Tiller in 2003) and Michael Frederick
Griffin (who is serving a life sentence for the 1993
killing of Dr. David Gunn, an OB-GYN, in Pensacola,
Florida).
Although primarily an anti-abortion organization, the
Army of God also has a history of promoting violence
against gays. And one of the terrorist acts that
Rudolph confessed to was bombing a lesbian bar in
Atlanta in 1997.

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by kodded(m): 2:37pm On Apr 08, 2015
You know if we want to count the atrocities committed by muslims all in the name of fighting for islam and allah the list will be endless undecided

So let's sleeping dogs lie angry

Beside did this guys practice what is in the bible ?

Did they say ther are fighting for GOD ?

Did they threatened to kill any one who refuse to accept Christ as their personal savior ?

Beside a lot of terrorist who are muslim disguise to be christians just to tarnish the image of Christ , just as boko haram did recently ? undecided

Smh angry
www.nairaland.com/2241409/boko-haram-fighters-disguise-preachers
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:38pm On Apr 08, 2015
2. Eastern Lightning, a.k.a. the Church of the
Almighty God
Founded in Henan Province, China in 1990, Eastern
Lightning (also known as the Church of the Almighty
God or the Church of the Gospel’s Kingdom) is a
Christianist cult with an end-time/apocalypse focus:
Eastern Lightning believes that the world is coming to
an end, and in the meantime, its duty is to slay as
many demons as possible. While most Christianists
have an extremely patriarchal viewpoint (much like
their Islamist counterparts) and consider women
inferior to men, Eastern Lightning believe that Jesus
Christ will return to Earth in the form of a Chinese
woman. But they are quite capable of violence
against women: in May 2014, for example, members
of the cult beat a 37-year-old woman named Wu
Shuoyan to death in a McDonalds in Zhaoyuan, China
when she refused to give them her phone number.
Eastern Lightning members Zhang Lidong and his
daughter, Zhang Fan, were convicted of murder for
the crime and executed in February. In a 2014
interview in prison, Lidong expressed no remorse
when he said of Shuoyan, “I beat her with all my
might and stamped on her too. She was a demon. We
had to destroy her.”
Eastern Lightning’s other acts of violence have ranged
from the killing of a grammar school student in 2010
(in retaliation, police believe, for one of the child’s
relatives wanting to leave the cult) to cult member
Min Yongjun using a knife to attack an elderly woman
and a group of schoolchildren in Chenpeng in 2012.
Christian groups are not exempt from Eastern
Lightning’s fanaticism: in 2002, cult members
kidnapped 34 members of a Christian group called
the China Gospel Fellowship and held them captive
for two months in the hope of forcing them to join
their cult. Although mainly active in the communist
People’s Republic of China, Eastern Lighting has been
trying to expand its membership in Hong Kong.

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:39pm On Apr 08, 2015
3. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
The mainstream media have had much to say about
the Islamist brutality of Boko Haram, but one
terrorist group they haven’t paid nearly as much
attention to is the Lord’s Resistance Army—which
was founded by Joseph Kony (a radical Christianist)
in Uganda in 1987 and has called for the
establishment of a severe Christian fundamentalist
government in that country. The LRA, according to
Human Rights Watch, has committed thousands of
killings and kidnappings—and along the way, its
terrorism spread from Uganda to parts of the Congo,
the Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan.
The word “jihadist” is seldom used in connection with
the LRA, but in fact, the LRA’s tactics are not unlike
those of ISIS or Boko Haram. And the governments
Kony hopes to establish in Sub-Saharan Africa would
implement a Christianist equivalent of Islamic Sharia
law.

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:45pm On Apr 08, 2015
4. TheNational Liberation Front of Tripura
India is not only a country of Hindus and Sikhs, but
also, of Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics and
Protestants. Most of India’s Christians are peaceful,
but a major exception is the National Liberation
Front of Tripura (NLFT). Active in the state of Tripura
in Northeastern India since 1989, NLFT is a
paramilitary Christianist movement that hopes to
secede from India and establish a Christian
fundamentalist government in Tripura. NLFT has zero
tolerance for any religion other than Christianity, and
the group has repeatedly shown a willingness to kill,
kidnap or torture Hindus who refuse to be converted
to its extreme brand of Protestant fundamentalism.
In 2000, NLFT vowed to kill anyone who participated
in Durga Puja (an annual Hindu festival) And in May
2003, at least 30 Hindus were murdered during one
of NLFT’s killing sprees.

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:49pm On Apr 08, 2015
5. The Concerned Christians
One of the ironic things about some Christianists is
the fact that although they believe that Jews must be
converted to Christianity, they consider themselves
staunch supporters of Israel. And some of them
believe in violently forcing all Muslims out of Israel.
The Concerned Christians, a Christianist doomsday
cult that was founded by pastor Monte “Kim” Miller in
Denver in the 1980s, alarmed Colorado residents
when, in 1998, at least 60 of its members suddenly
quit their jobs, abandoned their homes and went
missing—and it turned out there was reason for
concern. In 1999, Israeli officials arrested 14
members of the Concerned Christians in Jerusalem
and deported them from Israel because they
suspected them of plotting terrorist attacks against
Muslims. One likely target, according to Israeli police,
was Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque—the same mosque
that was targeted in 1969 (when a Christianist from
Australia named Denis Michael Rohan unsuccessfully
tried to destroy it by arson) and, Israeli police
suspect, was a likely target in 2014 (when Adam
Everett Livix, a Christianist from Texas, was arrested
by Israeli police on suspicion of plotting to blow up
Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem).
In 2008, Denver’s KUSA-TV (an NBC affiliate) reported
that members of the Concerned Citizens had gone
into hiding and that Miller hadn’t been seen in ten
years.

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by RecruitmentMgr: 2:50pm On Apr 08, 2015
Aj'egbodo nw'eni kun'ra. You should repent, instead of seeking fellow-criminals that will help justify acts of terrorism.

Next, o jare...
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:53pm On Apr 08, 2015
kodded:
You know if we want to count the atrocities committed by muslims all in the name of fighting for islam and allah the list will be endless undecided

So let's sleeping dogs lie angry

Beside did this guys practice what is in the bible ?

Did they say ther are fighting for GOD ?

Did they threatened to kill any one who refuse to accept Christ as their personal savior ?

Beside a lot of terrorist who are muslim disguise to be christians just to tarnish the image of Christ , just as boko haram did recently ? undecided

Smh angry
www.nairaland.com/2241409/boko-haram-fighters-disguise-preachers
I'm a Christian actually. This post is for educational purpose, and to discourage bigoted opinions like yours. The Christian groups actually formented evil in the name of Jesus/God. Anyways, all terrorist groups are BAD!!

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:56pm On Apr 08, 2015
RecruitmentMgr:
Aj'egbodo nw'eni kun'ra. You should repent, instead of seeking fellow-criminals to justify acts of terrorism.

Next, o jare...
How do you mean? Why do Christians always feel the need to be defensive? I've just posted a list, in no way have I aligned myself with any group or teachings!
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 2:57pm On Apr 08, 2015

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by kodded(m): 2:58pm On Apr 08, 2015
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30secs:

I'm a Christian actually. This post is for educational purpose, and to discourage bigoted opinions like yours. The Christian groups actually formented evil in the name of Jesus/God. Anyways, all terrorist groups are BAD!!
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Tell me how @ bolded
Did the op tell us their reason ?

Christians indeed
Mtchewww

undecided smh
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by RecruitmentMgr: 3:23pm On Apr 08, 2015
30secs:

How do you mean? Why do you guys (Christians) always feel they need to be defensive? Ove just posted a list, in no way have I aligned myself with any group or their teachings!

So, what's the essence of your post? What exactly are you trying to achieve by publicizing criminal groups?
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by 30secs(m): 3:27pm On Apr 08, 2015
RecruitmentMgr:


So, what's the essence of your post? What exactly are you trying to achieve by publicizing criminal groups?
For knowledge purpose!!

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by RecruitmentMgr: 3:37pm On Apr 08, 2015
Well, for your information, these guys are TERRORISTS. Calling them "Christians" is deliberate misinformation and that is NOT knowledge.
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by Empiree: 3:54pm On Apr 08, 2015
RecruitmentMgr:
Well, for your information, these guys are TERRORISTS. Calling them "Christians" is deliberate misinformation and that is NOT knowledge.
Would it be okay when muslims also said what you just said here?

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Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by shahydbinaliyu(m): 4:05pm On Apr 08, 2015
There is on movie that answers this question... Terrorism in Christianity don dey tey tey.. Killing people in the name of Jesus.. Just like boko.. Killing people and using Islam as cover...


Go watch this guy wey do ghost rider ...i don forget his name.. His movie titled... Chai. I don forget it's title.. It's magic vs Christianity vs doing what is right...


Maa go google am
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by RecruitmentMgr: 4:07pm On Apr 08, 2015
Empiree:
Would it be okay when muslims also said what you just said here?

YES, of course. We all need to wake up to the reality: the TERRORIST is on no-one's side. He's willing to kill himself and he'll gladly kill ANYONE; whether Christian or Muslim.

We should have learnt from the Boko-Haram experience, by now...
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by shahydbinaliyu(m): 4:24pm On Apr 08, 2015
It's season of the witch
Re: Army Of God? 6 Modern-day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About by Empiree: 4:39pm On Apr 08, 2015
RecruitmentMgr:


YES, of course. We all need to wake up to the reality: the TERRORIST is on no-one's side. He's willing to kill himself and he'll gladly kill ANYONE; whether Christian or Muslim.

We should have learnt from the Boko-Haram experience, by now...
Interesting! I agree with you but Christian fanatics will disagree with you. They are the ones that need simple analysis of yours

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