Psy-Cho hated Christians and Jesus
AllahPundit (whose coverage of the VTech incident has been outstanding--wide-ranging, timely, exploring interesting leads but shooting down rumors) has a little clip of Psy-Cho's demo reel he dropped in the mailbox to NBC in between murders.
Earlier reports had mentioned that he "talked about religion" a lot. MSNBC's description of the video said the same thing. But MSNBC's voiceover of the clip of the video they ran was a bit more specific:
He rails against hedonism and Christianity...And then you can hear Psy-Cho mutter about how Jesus is crucifying him every day.
I'm glad that was cleared up. I never really bought into the jihadist theory about this guy. But I figured since he was Korean he would have strong attitudes about Christianity one way or the other. I'll confess I'm relieved to hear him say, between his hateful babbling about trust funds and hedonism, that he hated Christians--and that he doesn't appear to be some sort of avenging-angel militant Fred Phelps type who had twisted Christianity into an excuse for terrorism. Such things are possible, though I think that's mainly a staple of Hollywood fiction. And I've seen several people call Tim McVeigh a Christian terrorist in a way that implies that he blew up the Murrah Building for Jesus--when in fact he wrote before his death that he was an agnostic.
Persecution of Christians is nothing new; it has been going since before the Crucifixion. Sometimes it 's derision and social exclusion; sometimes it's beheading and torture. Sometimes it comes through governments, sometimes through private citizens, and sometimes through nutbars like Cho--or perhaps more on point, through the nut who opened up on a prayer group at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Dallas in 1999. It will continue through the end of time.
Our very existence pisses off evil people and they try to grind us down and kill us. That's the way it works. It's part of the package and it says as much in the Charter. If we're not used to that unpleasant fact by now, we'd better get that way.
PS Don Surber has an interesting look at why Korea felt it necessary to apologize to the United States. Should any readers happen by from Korea, please be assured that no apology was necessary.