Columbine: 10 yrs later - xtians were NOT targeted.
Offline Xtians "fictionalize" a story to further own agenda. Tell me it's not true !
The two teenagers who killed 13 people and themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters. The killings ignited a national debate over bullying, but the record now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn't been bullied — in fact, they had bragged in diaries about picking on freshmen and "fags."
Their rampage put schools on alert for "enemies lists" made by troubled students, but the enemies on their list had graduated from Columbine a year earlier. Contrary to early reports, Harris and Klebold weren't on antidepressant medication and didn't target jocks, blacks or Christians, police now say, citing the killers' journals and witness accounts. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI says now.
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I remember Faux News going on about this for months. Business as usual for them.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
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Any bets on the facts not stopping the Christians from continuing to spread the story?
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
Indeed. There are still people who think WMD were found in Iraq.
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this is especially interesting since several songs by popular artists (Flyleaf's "Cassie" comes to mind) were specifically written and recorded in honor of Cassie being asked if she believed in her god.
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Such an eloquent example of how the repeated marketing of a fictional story can establish itself as fact in the minds of the non-critical thinker, and then eventually it becomes a part of history..... that is of course, unless the FBI proves it never happened.
Now if only they'd take interest in the fictional story that inspired the hypocritical liars who shamelessly manufactured the story above.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
And even some who said, "Yea well, Saddam was a WMD himself, look at what he did to his own people"
Or, "Why does it matter why we went in, isn't it good in any case that we got rid of a dictator"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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So Rachel (not sure how to spell her name) Scott wasn't murdered?
She was murdered, along with 12 others. The murderers didn't single out Christians. She didn't die because of her faith.
That's all that's being said here.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
Nobody is saying that she was not killed. She was killed instantly from a fairly long distance.
On the other hand, her mother has been running around for years repeating the lie that makes her feel strangely comfortable about the loss of her daughter that one of the shooters walked up to her and asked if she believed in god before shooting at close range.
The FBI has studied the ballistics in detail and it simply could not have gone down the way her mother says it did.
Also, the boy sitting next to her lived and he says that that did not happen.
If that is not enough, she knew Kliebold since kindergarten and had been in the same class as him for many years. At the time of the shooting, they were both in the school's theater production class. So presumably, he knew quite a bit about her and thus would not have to ask such a question.
So we have the following:
Mom=liar
Living witness says no
FBI says impossible
Killer knew her to well to need to ask
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