'Vile' attack on Jewish community in Bondi leaves 12 dead, including rabbi — as it happened
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Twelve people are confirmed dead and dozens are injured in a terrorist attack on the Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Follow live.

I’m going to guess the shooters were white supremacists with incoherent ideology

The guy who tackled one of the shooters to take his shotgun away is a legend though

Update: Appears one of the suspects is likely Middle East/Arabic/Subcontinent background. Going to see a rise in racism for sure

Update 2: Rabbi Schlanger (pro Israel man who wrote a letter to Albanese to deny Palestine statehood and is also one of the organisers of the even taking place at Bondi Beach) is one of the dead. ASIO claim one of the shooters was known to them, of course. Now up to 16 dead

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    In Christianity the end of the world is meant to ultimately be a good thing, like a thousand years of peace once the antichrist is defeated and then people go to heaven. In their view I guess they see it as doing God’s will. Plus Christians having been itching for the world to end since they became a thing. It’s like if the heaven’s gate people just waited 2000 years.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Though at the same time, if I remember my book of revelations stuff, “no one will know the time or the place” and it seems like any sort of attempt to “decode” the end of the world and make it happen would be at best futile and at worst actively going against any of God’s plans.

      Though these sorts of people do happen to “hear the voice of god” in such a way that tells them to do whatever reprehensible thing they want and it is ok because “it is god’s will.”

      • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah there’s not a lot of coherence to their beliefs. There’s also a lot of predestination and Calvinist stuff. So if they try to make the apocalypse happen and succeed that was god working through them all along etc

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah the Catholics have had to keep hammering down this nail every time it pops up. The logical conclusion of their religion is that the apocalypse is good, so the church had to forbid the concept as a form of heresy just to stop people from doing death cult shit.

      • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        In particular the Catholic church hated you trying to predict when the apocalypse was happening. It was fine to do art about it or philosophize about it. The minute you start to predict it they came down like a hammer. Which for at least pragmatic reasons, you make the church looks silly if you’re wrong.