"Easter Worshipers"

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mythbuster1 said:
and thus we regard it as a blasphemy on their account, refusing to pronounce the Name of Christ.
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At least they don’t blaspheme Christ by insisting that he was just a prophet, and not the incarnate Son of God. Good thing nobody does that! 😉
 
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“Politics” is pandering. It’s just that the left has traditionally been so much better at it.
 
I’m a slow learner. At one point, I realized that I was actually paying good money for the privilege" of being upset by the “chattering class.”

No more.
 
You really have read a lot into a phrase… I’m still firmly in the camp of this being a total overreaction to appropriate expressions of sympathy. Sorry. I’m not going to get riled up by this. That passion and energy is better spent elsewhere.
 
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The point, of course, is that they wanted to highlight that these people were murdered on Easter. That’s a significant part of the story.
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Fairly sure the date and church locations made that aspect clear to everyone.
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“I can’t believe the MSM didn’t even point out that the attack in Sri Lanka was on the most holy day in all of Christianity. Obviously this is evidence of a left-wing plot.”
 
gracepoole said:
“I can’t believe the MSM didn’t even point out that the attack in Sri Lanka was on the most holy day in all of Christianity. Obviously this is evidence of a left-wing plot.”
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Who are you quoting here and what’s the relevance?
 
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gracepoole:
“I can’t believe the MSM didn’t even point out that the attack in Sri Lanka was on the most holy day in all of Christianity. Obviously this is evidence of a left-wing plot.”
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Who are you quoting here and what’s the relevance?
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Merely a hypothetical. Simply noting that when one wants to find offense it can be found anywhere.
 
When I heard the use of the term, I thought they were trying to point out that by attacking on the highest holy day they were purposely going for the maximum damage, insult and terror.

It was Easter and those attacked were at worship.
 
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gracepoole:
Merely a hypothetical. Simply noting that when one wants to find offense it can be found anywhere.
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Ah. So no-one at all. Ingenious introduction of something that didn’t happen to support your position.
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In case this is helpful:

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Definition of HYPOTHETICAL

involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural… See the full definition
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I was (and am) still very bothered by the “Easter worshipers” comments, but I wouldn’t have been if it was just a random politician or random person.

However, it bothers me because it APPEARS to have been a coordinated messaging strategy. Several politicians used that phrase via Twitter today and they all (except Obama who was earlier) seemed to send their tweets out around the same time.

That’s what irks me about this. It seems they received their marching orders from someone and used phrases like “Easter worshipers” to avoid using the name Christian for some reason.

And a big part of me suspects that part of it (even if small) was that they didn’t want to imply that Catholics are Christians (because 2 of the Churches were Catholic)

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NOTE: I’m NOT outraged (because I expect these word games from politicians), but I am very bothered by it - and mostly because it seems to be coordinated & calculated.
 
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Who cares what they’re trying to imply? The only people likely to be pleased by this are those people who already hate the Catholic Church, and they’re gonna keep lying and hating on us no matter what we do. My point is, hatred of the Catholic Church will always exist, and the least we as Catholics should do is ignore these politicians and focus on helping the targets of the tragedy as best we could: through prayer, donations, or charity work.

The only thing we’re going to achieve by arguing about this and about how Muslims are overtaking the world is a complete waste of all our times, IMO. That’s why I’ve refrained from participating in this discussion, it’s just going to degenerate into a political fight or an anti-Arab rant.
 
I personally prefer the phrase Easter worshippers to “Christians”, because a) everyone in the west knows Easter = Christian unless they live under a rock and b) it succinctly captures the fact that they were killed while joyfully celebrating an important feastday.
 
Calliope said:
When I heard the use of the term, I thought they were trying to point out that by attacking on the highest holy day they were purposely going for the maximum damage, insult and terror.
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That’s because you weren’t looking for a reason to be offended.
 
According to his childhood neighbors, yes he was raised Catholic, unfortunately. They described his family as “good Catholics”.

There’s no indication he was practicing any religion at all by the time he went out and killed people though.
 
Yes the type of which you speak have the goal to convert or wipe off the face of the Earth all infidels. Now for the obligatory not all Muslims believe this.
 
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