10mo ago

political violence works and is good sometimes actually

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Can someone link to this story. What am I missing?
- Yagami Tetsuya assassinated Abe Shinzo, former PM of Japan, while he was drumming up support for a candidate from his party. The motive was his mother draining the family savings account to donate to a Christian cult known as the Unification Church, aka Moonies. He actually wanted to kill the Moonie leadership but deemed it unrealistic, so he went after Abe who had ties to the cult. After the assassination, it came out that a lot of Japanese leadership had ties to the cult and there was a bit of a witch-hunt.
  
  Calling the Moonies Christian is... Debatable.
  The founder got excommunicated by the Presbyterians.
  Really good Behind the Bastards episodes on them btw.
  
  The way you used italics, I gotta ask, is excommunication coming from the Presbyterians unusual compared to other Christian groups?
  
  I was raised protestant, but not presbyterian. Still, I haven't heard a lot of excommunication coming from any protestant group. That is mostly a Catholic thing I think, with some of that happening with maybe Puritans (I'm not that familiar with all of them) back around Salem Witch Trial days.
  
  Protestants excommunicate each other all the time. Only some denominations practice open communion. Many Baptist churches are worse than the Catholics about it. The different denominations are often not in communion with each other for some stupid reason. They do it in different ways, mind you, with a focus on elder councils or something.
  
  See joke by Emo Philips.
- Guy's mother joined a cult and ended up donating the family's entire savings, leaving them in poverty. He's supper pissed about the conditions they live in and eventually assassinates the former PM who was apparently involved with said cult somehow. Now it seems the government is earnestly considering the conditions which created such despair in the man.
  I'm just working off memory, but that's the basics of it I think.
  
  I mean, killing a member of the government will definitely get the government's attention.

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