I’m A Jerk For Thinking This I Guess
I read today in the headlines that there was a shooting at a church in Tennessee. I thought something like this, though not in these exact words: “That’s weird, in the South, churches are usually in the business of inciting violent hatred; they’re not usually the target of it.”
When I actually read the news story about it though, my prejudiced thought seemed to be vindicated: this was far from a stereotypical southern Evangelical church: it was a progressive, liberal, ACLU-supporting, Unitarian Universalist church. Very much a target for crazy gun-toting hateful people in America.
UPDATE:
Yahoo News: Man Shot Churchgoers Over Liberal Views
On the flipside, Topher noted in the comments that when you hear “violence in a church in the South” the first thing you might logically think of is church burnings, which have been linked to race, robbery, and just general malice.
Tags: sad
July 28th, 2008 at 7:43 am
It’s interesting that you should say that, because my perception of southern churches is still heavily impacted by visions of “black” churches being burned; churches that generally are NOT about violence.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:49 am
There’s another big hole in my logic. :)