Posted on 09/16/2008 12:38:51 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
A man who threatened to behead two women because they were Christians was attacked in self-defense early Saturday and injured so severely, police say, that his eye was to be removed.
Russell Bowman, who called himself an atheist, showed up with a large knife at the women's apartment in the 700 block of Tia Juana Street about 3:15 a.m., police said.
Another resident grabbed a shotgun and ordered him to put the knife down. When Bowman refused and began approaching, the person hit him with the butt end of the weapon, police said.
Doctors at Memorial Hospital reportedly told police the eye would have to be removed.
Bowman, who lived in the same building, threatened the women a couple of days before the confrontation, Colorado Springs Police Lt. Pat Rigdon said. Alcohol appeared to play a role, he said.
Police will likely pursue charges of felony menacing against Bowman. The investigation will be forwarded to the 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office to see if other charges are merited.
Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
The left loves to call Christians the “American Taliban”. Sounds like the radical atheists are entitled to this honor.
We need to keep an eye on this story.........
Neither stereotype is fair. There is certainly more to this story then the guy being an atheist.
We can’t blink.
how about the looney left try those kind of stunts with muslims? oh yea... because they know the muslims would show up in force and kill them... in the name of peace, of course
I wonder what Bill Moyers has to say about this?
“We need to keep an eye on this story.........” LOL
Only if we’re eagles.
I bet the follow-up to this story is...
One-eyed atheist sues gun wielding Christian for assault and battereye!
ok but most ‘mainstream’ atheists support abortion.
Atheists, for some reason, seem to feel perfectly justified in having utter hatred and intolerance for Christians. They actually perceive them as being the evil ones, for inflicting a sense of morality into their dark world. One that would most likely exist anyway, it’s just convenient to blame someone else for their imperfect understanding of the universe. And when they get real political power, such as what the Bolsheviks aquired in 1917, they feel completely justified doing far worse.
too bad she didn’t kill him. He could test his theory about God right away!
Sounds like some real punishment.
Actually only a tiny percentage, but of course they are the ones you hear about. The ones who just live and let live, and don't resent others practicing religion aren't going to have stories written about them.
I should have said...
Assault and buttereye (gun butt), but I’m still half asleep.
Now THAT would have been a true PUNishment.
A shotgun is the wrong tool for a beating, but the perfect tool to permanently end a criminal assault..
Grrrr..., now I’m in a real pickle. LOL
Is that true? I don’t think I’d heard that before.
One more reason to use a shotgun properly.
Actually, the more tolerant atheists usually refer to themselves as agnostic. The term “atheist” implies, at least to me, something a bit over the top. For example, they will claim to know with absolute certainty that God doesn’t exist; which is of course purely emotional, nonsensical, and bordering on crazy.
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