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America is under attack.<\/p>\n

We can look back over the history of our nation and recall figures like William Cornell<\/a> way back in 1863, or James Holmes and Dylann Roof from more recently. We can look over the list Wikipedia provides of more than a hundred rampage killers<\/a>\u00a0and other examples of mass violence<\/a> in American history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do almost all the perpetrators of these violent rampages\u00a0have in common? Look at their last names. Find pictures of them and look at their skin color. All of them are clearly descended from European immigrants. Europe is historically a predominantly Christian continent, and surely that cannot be a coincidence.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we should not go back to the approach used with Native Americans and with people of Japanese descent during World War II, and begin rounding people up. But isn\u2019t it time, at the very least, to stop those people coming to our great nation any longer, given the havoc they have wreaked here time and time again?<\/p>\n

Presumably most readers will recognize the above as a parody of what Franklin Graham recently\u00a0tweeted about Muslim immigrants. It is one of the things about racial and religious privilege that those in a dominant category have the privilege of being individuals.\u00a0Whether they shoot someone, smoke marijuana, or blow something up, the perpetrators \u2013 if they are white and from a Christian background \u2013 will be viewed as atypical radicals,\u00a0unrelated to oneself and one\u2019s own ethnic or cultural heritage. But people with darker skin, or another religion, are considered examples of what \u201cthose people\u201d are like.<\/p>\n

I find mass shooting reprehensible. I find all\u00a0<\/em>shootings and murders reprehensible.\u00a0But I also find the\u00a0characterization of whole religious, cultural, ethnic, and other traditions with a broad brush, in a manner that one would never accept if applied to oneself and one\u2019s own heritage, to also be reprehensible.<\/p>\n

For more of the Franklin Graham<\/a> story, see the posts elsewhere on Patheos by Hemant Mehta<\/a> and Steve Neumann<\/a> \u2013 two atheists whose\u00a0outlook on this are noticeably more Christian than Graham\u2019s own. Here\u2019s the text of Graham\u2019s tweet, for those who may have missed it:<\/p>\n

$\"Franklin$ <\/p>\n

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