He was just looking for a reason to smote people.
I'm glad that when I first signed on to FR that I met right away some of the kinds of fundamentalist Christians who are the "salt of the earth," some really nice folks. Otherwise, I'd have had a really bad impression of them by now, considering the off the wall, holier than thou things I see posted everyday. And "off the wall" is describing it mildly. Sometimes I really have to wonder.