While we here at The Fascination Room in no way encourage, endorse or condone smiting and/or religious vilification, we still like to take a look at interesting events that seem to go under the radar of the major news headlines. Here is an example of how scary fundamental Christians can be. Or if you're lazy, here it is in a nutshell:

" On October 18, 2004, Arthur Shelton, a self described Christian and Eagle Scout, murdered his friend and roommate, Larry Hooper, because Hooper didn't believe in God. " At the trial Shelton refused to speak to anyone who was an atheist, except the police because he felt that "they believed in God." Throughout the course of the trial, the men who wrote the above article (atheists) were constantly harassed by Shelton's family, who shoved crosses in their faces and yelled things at them like "God loves you!" and called them "devils, evil."

Now this raises a couple questions. First, if this man is such a religious fanatic who wouldn't even speak to someone who didn't believe in God, why would he enter into a living arrangement with someone who was atheist? Being the fanatic that he is, don't you think that he would have asked if he believed in God or not? It doesn't really add up. I find it hard to believe that these men could have been friends without Shelton ever knowing Hooper's religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

Second, (this is a real long shot) since this mans family is just as fanatic as he is, he was obviously raised (one can only assume) to believe that anyone that doesn't believe in God is the devil, is evil. Would that therefore make the family partly responsible for Hooper's murder? Hypothetically, of course.

I was hoping that this story was fake, but here's a link to the archived news of the Detroit Free Press that semi-validates the authenticity of this story. I say semi-validates because I'm not about to sing up for an account just to view the article.

But mediatedthought, a digg user, has it all figured out.
“Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
That's a quote from the J-man himself. What Would Jesus Do? Jesus would have used a sword instead.

So that explains it. Jesus was a NINJA. It all makes sense now.

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