“And in this country of intense religious fervor, many believe that to be a ‘jumper’ was to choose suicide rather than accept the fate of God — and suicide in whatever circumstances is considered shameful or, indeed, a sin that will send you to Hell.”
I found this statement bizarre. I am a person of intense religious fervor and it has never even OCCURRED to me that they had done something wrong.
Nor had I heard anyone mention this idea - not even any of my intense religious fervor friends and family.
What a ridiculous assertion for this writer to make.
It's called a "strawman" argument, where you just make something up about somebody you don't like and act like it's the truth.
It's the only thing Ubama knows how to do, and his sycophants in state-controlled media are simply following his lead.