TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK: ABERRANT BEHAVIOR IN THE ‘FALSE’ CHRISTIANS

Normally, I don’t comment very often on current affairs. Usually, idle speculation flowers into biased gossip, which then blossoms into some imbecilic meme that’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.

In this case, I found this example most intriguing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pastor_slain - Authorities Say Minister's Wife Confesses
There will be those who cry ‘Unrepresentative sample fallacy,’ but I find that these seem to be represented more and more in the press lately. True enough, you don’t read about the other some-odd millions who behave themselves, but this raises an eyebrow on me.

From the article:
“Matthew Winkler was hired at the Fourth Street Church in February 2005, said Wilburn Ash, an elder at the church. The congregation quickly came to love his straight-by-the-Bible sermons. Church members also took to his wife, who they described as a quiet, unassuming woman who was a substitute teacher at the elementary school.
"They were a nice family," said former Selmer Mayor Jimmy Whittington, who worked with the minister collecting donations for hurricane victims last year. "They just blended in."
“Mary and Matthew Winkler met at the Church of Christ-affiliated Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, where his father, also a minister, is an adjunct professor.
On Thursday, members of the Selmer congregation gathered inside the one-story brick church.
"I can't believe this would happen," said Pam Killingsworth, a church member and assistant principal at Selmer Elementary.
"The kids are just precious, and she was precious," Killingsworth said. "He was the one of the best ministers we've ever had — just super charisma."

They seem (from the article) to have been the pluperfect xtian couple – Daddy was a well-respected preacher, mom being a schoolmarm – well liked, well versed (assumption here), 3 kids.

What then, explains this divergence? This utter lack of ‘turning the other cheek’? ‘Thou shalt not kill (or murder, or whatever)’?

This troubles me, it does. We constantly see a lack of living by the principles in xtians, modern-day or otherwise. The standard out, is that they weren’t ‘true xtians’. ‘The bar is too high’. All that folderol.

For all I know, the lady in question had some mental illness. Perhaps she caught ‘Mr. Charisma’ in the sack (or suspected that) w/another parishioner? Perhaps the ‘devil made her do it’, or she saw some superimposed image of the great ‘Evil One’ on her husband? Questions, questions.

Why is it we see a preponderance of violent behavior in allegedly ‘peaceful’ religions? The ‘hereafterians’, if I may be so bold as to coin this term?

Could it be the ‘absolution’ theorem, that second-chance given? Or, as some atheists posit, the after-life concept breeds sociopathy? This bothers me to no end.

Simple thoughts on a cloudy afternoon.