It's interesting that a "people group" or "minority" getting savagely attacked sends liberals into panty-wetting fits, but let a few Christians get mutilated, and "they probably deserved it."
Remember a while back, a black man and a homosexual man were brutally murdered, (in two different crimes)and the media cried "hate crime" in hundreds of stories.
Let a nut walk into a church in Texas, muttering about hating Christians, and start shooting teenagers, and the media hardly notices. And it certainly wasn't a hate crime.
It doesn't really matter anyway. Christ warned that we would be persecuted.:
"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields--[b]and with them, persecutions[/b]) and in the age to come, eternal life." Mark 10:29,30 NIV
The only time that the church really thrives, and really grows (with REAL Christians) is when it is persecuted.
I have heard missionaries talk of churches in China. They have so many thousands of members that they have to meet in open fields. When the police find out who the pastor of the church is, he is arrested and thrown in prison, with no hope of getting out. Then someone else takes over the job.
The missionary asked if it was hard to get someone to take the pastor's job.
The reply was "No, we have men standing in line to suffer for Christ."
When asked if Americans should pray for the persecution to end, the answer was "No, because the persecution makes us stronger. Pray that we will be found faithful."
If you believe scripture, (and I do) then this kind of thing will come to America. It is only a matter of time. Then the true followers of Christ will be separated from the false. (sheep from the goats)
The question is, will I be faithful?
Will I answer "Christian", when I am asked?