Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, has been arrested as a suspect in a bombing and shooting spree that killed more than 90 people in Norway Friday. The violence was the worst seen in Norway since World War II. It is thought to be the worst bloodbath perpetrated by a lone gunman in modern times.

Some are describing Breivik as a “conservative Christian”. Really!? You want to call a man who allegedly sets off a bomb in an occupied building and later guns down innocent children a follower of Jesus Christ!? Don’t insult my intelligence!

This is reminiscent of the ignorance of people who called Timothy McVeigh a “Christian”. You remember McVeigh. He killed 168 people with a truck bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995. To call McVeigh a “Christian” is utterly ridiculous.

I don’t have any illusions of changing the minds of many worldly people about what makes a person a Christian. This is a call for true Christians everywhere to reject the labels given by the world and to speak out any time the name of Jesus Christ gets dragged through the mud by people who reject him.

If he is guilty of this crime, feel free to call Breivik a lot of things. Just don’t call him a “Christian”!