{"id":196375,"date":"2017-06-03T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/christian-pastor-blames-evolution-for-a-white-students-alleged-murder-of-a-black-student-patheos-blog\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:31:51","slug":"christian-pastor-blames-evolution-for-a-white-students-alleged-murder-of-a-black-student-patheos-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/evolution\/christian-pastor-blames-evolution-for-a-white-students-alleged-murder-of-a-black-student-patheos-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Pastor Blames Evolution for a White Student&#8217;s Alleged Murder of a Black Student &#8211; Patheos (blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    A couple of weeks ago, a white 22-year-old named Sean    Christopher Urbanski was accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old Richard    Collins III, an Army Lt., who was black. The incident    took place on the University of Marylands campus, which    Urbanski attended.  <\/p>\n<p>    Urbanskis membership in an alt-right Facebook group has led    many to believe this was a racially motivated hate crime,    though he hasnt been charged with that yet.  <\/p>\n<p>    No need to think too much about the reason, though, because the    Institute on the Constitutions David Whitney    knows    why it happened. He explained in a sermon at Cornerstone Evangelical Free    Church that the motivation was  wait for it  the    teaching of evolution.  <\/p>\n<p>      As in all public schools, evolution is inculcated and it      teaches that there is no Creator God and that everything in      the universe came into existence by chance and mistake,      accident and is wholly without purpose and without meaning of      any kind, Whitney preached. [Urbanski] was taught      that mankind, including himself, was nothing more than a long      compilation of mistakes and mutations and chance      occurrences.    <\/p>\n<p>      We should not be surprised then if Sean, with that      background and education, concluded that life is meaningless,      without any purpose at all, he continued. Or, if      there is a purpose in life, it would be to advance and      further the process of evolution; a process in which the      strong destroy the weak and indeed, ultimately, that is the      purpose for existence. Survival of the fittest      therefore has some rather dastardly consequences which we see      in the murder committed by a secular humanist of a Christian      young man.    <\/p>\n<p>      Evolution is also the basis of racism,      [and] many assert that racism played a role in the motivation      for this murder, Whitney said. You see, evolution      is essentially racist. So where did Sean      Urbanski learn racism? He learned it in his classes on      evolution at the local public high school that his      parents sent him to and his parents funded that school by the      payment of their property taxes.    <\/p>\n<p>    Thats not how evolution works. Its an explanation, not an    excuse. It doesnt mean members of a species just kill each    other for the sake of it  or that a murder alters the course    of how the process works. (Hell, you could make a compelling    argument for why evolution promotes altruism and working    together, too.)  <\/p>\n<p>    Furthermore, Whitney never bothers to explain why the rest of    us who understand and accept evolution arent running around    killing everyone else  or why there are so many Christians in    jail. Its almost like theres more to an accused murderers    mindset that a class he took in high school  <\/p>\n<p>    But that sort of nuance is too complicated for this guy. Its    so much easier to blame anything and everything else for a    crime  as long as youre not implicated in it.  <\/p>\n<p>    (via Right    Wing Watch)<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2017\/06\/03\/christian-pastor-blames-evolution-for-a-white-students-alleged-murder-of-a-black-student\/\" title=\"Christian Pastor Blames Evolution for a White Student's Alleged Murder of a Black Student - Patheos (blog)\">Christian Pastor Blames Evolution for a White Student's Alleged Murder of a Black Student - Patheos (blog)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A couple of weeks ago, a white 22-year-old named Sean Christopher Urbanski was accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old Richard Collins III, an Army Lt., who was black.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/evolution\/christian-pastor-blames-evolution-for-a-white-students-alleged-murder-of-a-black-student-patheos-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}