Sodom and Gomorrah in Colorado?

Check out the wikipedia entry on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Read the Jewish interpretations (it was a Jewish story before it was a Christian story after all). Inhospitality and greed were the sins God punished.

Now, from The Guardian:

Wick said the suspect spent several minutes speaking with people inside the dorm. Peter Warren, director of Youth With a Mission Denver, said the man asked whether he could spend the night. Several youths called on Tiffany Johnson, the
center's director of hospitality."

The director of hospitality was called. That's when he opened fire," Warren said. Johnson, 26, was killed.

Maybe it is Mark 6:10-6:11? (I'm not a believer, why do I even know this?)

Then the attacks on the New Life Church... Well it founded by Ted Haggard. I don't mind the fact that Ted Haggard was using crystal meth and hiring gay prostitutes. I do mind that, in spite of that, he formed a church that hates gays for being gay and that is particularly effective in fleecing it's benighted flock. We saw an example of his shamelessness with regard to money when, after he was defrocked, he tried to use a money laundering charity (run by a sex offender) scheme to solicit donations to himself.

Did you read the Josephus section in the wiki article above:

"Now, about this time the Sodomites, overwhelmingly proud of their numbers and the extent of their wealth, showed themselves insolent to men and impious to the divinity, insomuch that they no more remembered the benefits that they had received from him, hated foreigners and avoided any contact with others. Indignant at this conduct, God accordingly resolved to chastise them for their arrogance, and not only to uproot their city, but to blast their land so completely that it should yield neither plant nor fruit whatsoever from that time forward."

So if you are one who believes in God and that God intervenes in human affairs to punish the wicked, you better wake up to the fact that this Matthew Murray character just might be an instrument of God. Thank goodness, I'm not a believer, and I can regard him as just a murderer. I don't condone criminals even when they attack other criminal organizations.

I feel sorry for those who lives were shattered and lost. The unknowing pawns in the evil Right Wing Faith Machine don't deserve to die while those at the top fleece their elderly, poor, uneducated, and credulous of their money by making false promises, lies, deceptions, and ruses to do so.

How these types of Christian leaders can look themselves in the mirror, I don't know. They will tell me that I, as a non-believer, can have no moral compass because I don't believe in Hell. When, in fact, if someone thinks that having a "personal relationship with Christ" is the minimum necesssary to stay out of Hell, then they can truly be unethical. Especially when they back up their faith with GOP values of intolerance, anti-intellectualism, greed, and the belief that any means necessary to get power is valid.