Anders Behring Breivik and the High Cost of Muslim Immigration

There is very little to be gained from a study of Anders Behring Breivik. He was a loner who was alienated from the society he lived in, suffered from depression, played violent video games, used steroids, listened to angry music and was of above average intelligence. This profile describes half the spree shooters in the last two decades, right down to the Columbine Massacre.

It is not Breivik's politics that make him significant. He was an outsider who despised society and escaped into romantic fantasies of omnipotence fed by video games and popular culture. Breivik cultivated a detached attitude toward the people around him and was obsessed with violent exercises of his masculinity. All this is common to killers of all political stripes and of no political affiliation whatsoever.

His journal reveals a man who vacillated between crippling depression and grandiose plans. This manic-depressive behavior suggests Breivik may be bipolar. It is unknown if he was taking medication for it. He may have been self-medicating instead and rather than controlling his mood swings, it worsened them. Breivik's journal shows some awareness of his emotional instability, but his later entries are too caught up in his grandiose fantasy world to seek psychiatric help.

Had Breivik not imagined himself a crusader, then he would have become an animal rights activist, an anti-capitalist terrorist, or just a random spree killer-- acting out scenarios from Modern Warfare 2, his favorite video game, in real life. There is no use in trying to apply some measure of consistency to his beliefs. And his choice of targets likely had a large element of personal grievance or resentment to it that he then dressed up in manifesto form.

It's pretty obvious that the guy is a sociopath. The woods are full of them these days. Western culture (the REAL problem) is producing disfunctional and alienated adults apace and with assembly line regularity.

However, the author says: “All this is common to killers of all political stripes and of no political affiliation whatsoever.”

I think that ought to exclude the Muslims who build bombs and attack civilians, worldwide. THAT is different!! THEY are not pathological misfits like this guy. These Muslim killers are groomed, trained and I would venture to say, bred to kill all Non-Muslims. They are kept poor and uneducated and appear to be recruited strictly from that class. They are political soldiers not individual misfits (though they would not fit in ANY western society, by the time their training is ‘complete’)

The question on the table is whether or not Anders was properly classified as a "Christian Fundamentalist".

The answer is, of course, NO!

That was the claim the Leftwingtards were making.

Historically in the United States the "Christian Fundamentalists" are a relatively small group who engage in a literalist interpetation of the Bible. They became famous during the period of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Elsewhere the term "fundamentalist" is used quite differently. The Pope, for example, might be thought of as a Christian Fundamentalist in China, India, Russia, etc., but NOT in America.

Or, we can ignore the Monkey Trial church people and take back the term "fundamentalist" and once again, voila, as if by magic, the Pope can once again be a "fundamentalist Christian" in America!

I think you missed the subtlety of my comment ~ the relationship to Darwinism is that in America you would not expect a classical "Christian Fundamentalist" to also be a "Darwinist" because the two terms are historically considered antipodal to each other.

It's like the problem some of our American Leftwingtards have about the idea that in Scandinavia you can have Leftwingtard Nazis ~ which presents no problem whatsoever to Scandinavians!

There, since they live in MONARCHIES they identify "the Right" with the traditional Royalists. The Nazis are not Royalists so they don't fit on "the Right".

Instead, the Nazis fit in quite well with the other Socialists ~ but, the problem here is that the term "Socialist" is not necessarily understood the way WE in America understand the word.

Liberal also means different things ~ sometimes as many as a dozen different things,

In general in Europe a political party with the word "Christian" in it means it has a lot of "Catholic supporters". In America, no parties are ever called "Christian".

If you throw Latin America into the mix in trying to figure out what fits where, the merger of the Far Left with the Nazis has been an enormous problem all over Latin America since they first became aware of the terms. Most of their politicians are also easily bought with bribes, which more or less renders all the standard terms we use MEANINGLESS.

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