Posted on 12/10/2007 12:25:35 AM PST by AZLiberty
Arvada police said Sunday they have "reason to believe" that deadly attacks at two religious institutions 70 miles apart that left four dead and six injured are probably linked.
Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said his agency sent officers to share notes with Colorado Springs police. And late Sunday, authorities from both agencies were searching a home in southeastern Arapahoe County they say could be related to the case.
"We have reason to believe that the two may be related," Wick said at a news briefing.
Two people were fatally shot at a housing complex for missionaries in training at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Arvada. Thirteen hours later, at Colorado Springs' evangelical New Life Church, a parishioner was killed and four people were injured before the shooter was shot dead by a New Life security guard. Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers was more cautious about any link late Sunday, noting he had no indication the two shootings were related.
"We are working directly with the Arvada Police Department to explore if there is any possible link," Myers said.
In Arvada, Tiffany Johnson, 26, was killed at a Youth With a Mission dormitory when she declined to provide shelter to a man in his 20s seeking a place to sleep. As Johnson started to offer him alternatives, the man opened fire, killing her and Philip Crouse, 24.
Two other staffers waiting up for stragglers to return from a youth bowling trip were wounded before the man ran away through the snow.p> Shortly after 1 p.m. at a large evangelical church 70 miles away, a heavily armed man roughly matching the same description as the Arvada gunman opened fire on a van in the New Life Church parking lot.
One person, whose identity was not released Sunday night, was killed. The gunman then entered the church vestibule and began firing with a high-powered rifle before a security-team member shot and killed him. The female security-team member, whose name was not released, "probably saved many lives today," Myers said.
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Was it a Muzzie?
More likely some jackarse on antidepressants.
The attacks on Evangelicals by the leftists has now resulted in murders of innocent worshipers. The hatered towards the religious right spawned by the MSN, the democrat party, and their presidential candidates has now resulted in maniacs taking to the streets. The blame can be put on the Democrats.
-present-day Christianity is judgmental (87%)
-hypocritical (85%)
-old-fashioned (78%)
-too involved in politics (75%)
Imbedded in these conclusions are 4 deceptions spread by the MMD (Media of Mass Deception) for some 50 years.
1. Present-day Christianity is judgmental. We've been taught by the MMD to be "tolerant" - that is accepting of all religions, viewpoints, and versions of morality. Any Christian that stands on the Scriptures - even when it clearly calls for us to be "salt" in the culture (preserving biblical principles and calling "sin" sin) is intolerant. Fifty years ago a Christian that stood for biblical principles would have been called courageous - today's he's a bigot.
2. The MMD loves to ignore the vast number of testimonies, stories, and literature about how Christians have helped turned countless social, governmental, and cultural travesties into triumphs for the betterment of mankind. Look back to the end of slavery in any country and you will likely see a Christian leading the charge. Find an effort to end persecution, despotism, genocide, mistreatment of women, or suffering children in any stage of recent history and you will probably find a Christian working in the midst of the struggle. Yet the MMD refuses to publish those stories. Instead, they pick the isolated incidents of hypocritical Christians and use those unfortunate occurrences to paint a picture of the entire Christian population, and it has apparently worked.
3. Since when did having a peaceful, just, moral, society become old-fashioned? Since when did telling the truth become out-of-touch? Since the MMD made it fashionable to promote sin, violence, and hedonism.
4. Too involved in politics - I find this perception most troubling. If the young person in America does not understand the necessary role of a Christian to be involved in his/her government, we have some educating to do. This perception is the result of the MMD's successful campaign to convince Americans of the so-called separation of church and state — a myth created by the MMD to remove Christians from spheres of influence
Do you think this view has ever really varied all that much through the generations?
Among my circle of friends, most who held similiar attitudes toward Christianity and religion in general, underwent "religious" or "spiritual" transformation in their thirties. Some earlier. But, most did not change their attitudes until thirty-something.
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16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
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http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
“The only important difference between Nazi-ism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism and Liberalism is the spelling, and that the last group hasn’t got the brains to figure it out.” ~ Bill Vance
Absolutely. Back in the 50's most were respectful of their church, their elders, and their Christian community in general.
God, Guns and Guts.
Not the kind of story the MSM likes to show us.
I was working with a younger engineer from KS in the early 2000s. He stated to me he thought that Christians were the biggest threat to his freedom. The MSM has them brainwashed.
Last night at our church Bell Concert, I had my CCW and the 9mm with me.
Amazing, I haven’t heard many people say it but this could have quickly turned into 30-40 dead innocent people had it not been for a single person who was packing. You are 100% correct... dozens of lives were likely saved by a couragous act of one person.
Too bad this lady wasn’t at the mall last week.
I’m at odd however, I don’t feel right about it so I always leave my weapon in the car when I go into church, maybe I have a flaw in my thinking...
Thank you for the clear, consise, informative post.
and your effort with the pics.
if this had been an attack at a baby butchering factory, the media would be all over it....and calling it christian radicals....
Plus, it isn't even accurate. I've been involved in evangelical churches for forty years. "Political involvement" of these congregations has connsisted of reminding people to vote on the Sunday before election day, and over 40 years, that was forgotten more times than it was stated.
I'm getting a really bad feeling about how this is going to be spun if this is the perp.
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