In many ways, this is as much anti-Christian as it is anti-black. This Dylann Roof is a real train wreck, and somewhere in his twisted logic, certain things became conflated, and any smidgen of stain upon one became a stain upon all.
Granted, the years of apartheid in South Africa, and the white supremacy in Rhodesia, were examples of a grave injustice in historical terms, but the reaction to these extreme applications of injustice were to inflict a “get even, see how THEY like it” regime was was even more harsh than the soft tyranny it replaced.
But there is no such thing as “getting even” in the moral or ethical sense. Either the retaliation is far too severe, or the existing tyranny is far to harsh in repressing the insurrection. Balance, “getting even”, is never achieved.
Good points. Getting even makes the doer a transevil-doer.
I think it is an interesting point about it also being anti-Christian. That may be, but the overwhelming evidence so far shows he was after blacks and church was just a convenient spot to find them. Still, it may have been a two-fer in his mind. We don’t know yet.
To the extent that one believes that evil is a work of Satan, it was anti-Christian. That makes the good-for-evil response of those Christian families even more beautiful, powerful, and amazing.