While more details about the Christian life of Robert Aaron Long, the Georgia spa shooter who murdered eight people, continue to dribble out, his church wants to make clear they want nothing to do with him anymore.
Crabapple First Baptist Church says it’s basically rescinding his baptism. They had posted a celebratory video of Long explaining his journey to finding Jesus — only to take it down once his crimes became clear — but now they’re distancing from him as much as they can.
It always strikes me how christians denounce each other by insisting that they are the “real” christians and the other is not, yet they draw their poison from the same well. I seem to remember stories about Jesus’ own violent outbursts. If he had access to firearms, would he have shot those poor merchants on the temple grounds?
I wouldn’t doubt it.