Anders Behring Breivik has now ?acknowledged? that he carried out the horrific series of attacks in Norway that have left at least 76 dead. He has been described by police there as a ?Christian fundamentalist.? His rambling ?manifesto? calls for a ?Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.? Christians should not turn away from this information, but try to come to terms with the temptations to violence in the theologies of right-wing Christianity.
Breivik?s chosen targets were political in nature, emblematic of his hatred of ?multiculturalism? and ?left-wing political ideology.? This does not mean that the Christian element in his ultra-nationalist views is irrelevant. The religious and political views in right-wing ideologies are mutually reinforcing, and ignoring or dismissing the role played by certain kinds of Christian theology in such extremism is distorting.
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