Waco had nothing to do with criminality of Christianity; if anything, David Koresh, was anti-Christian, a narcissistic false messiah. Waco is more properly characterized a bungled law enforcement execution of search and arrest warrants. If there was any unseemly motivation, it was more of an assault on the 2nd Amendment, but I am not sure I believe that. This was just a screw-up of the first order, they could have grabbed that guy on the street with no confrontation.
I do not believe any screwup occurred in WACO, "as far as God is concerned". The reason I say that is that if David Koresh had lived through Waco, there would have been such a lawsuit with him the winner....all based on free speech and freedom of religion. Our courts were spared that atrocity and a bandwagon on which the "left" could have jumped just to hurt the conservatives and the christians.
Yes, the FBI was accused of screwing this one up, but better a screwup and Koresh gone than his surviving it to make a mockery of courts. Remember this man was a child molester. God judged him in his own way, and he used our government agency to do it.
I don't disagree,
but one of the foundations
of Protestant thought --
and certainly of
US Protestant thought -- is
or at least has been
that people themselves
decide what they are and choose
how they will worship.
(Many people think
Mormons are nuts as Koresh --
Should we burn Utah?)
Waco was the first
modern instance of the state
just deciding that
since Koresh was nuts
he wasn't really Christian
so they could torch him . . .
It's a precedent.
If a person believes in
creation science
some people would say
they're nuts. If that gives the state
license to run wild,
then soon enough, watch,
just believing Christ was real
will get you called nuts . . .