By Justin Watson (auth.)
ISBN-10: 1349387010
ISBN-13: 9781349387014
ISBN-10: 1403970009
ISBN-13: 9781403970008
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow scholars and one instructor at Columbine highschool in Littleton, Colorado. of the sufferers of the Columbine bloodbath, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly have been requested by way of the gunmen in the event that they believed in God. either supposedly spoke back 'Yes' and have been killed. inside days in their dying, Cassie and Rachel have been being hailed as modern day martyrs and are obvious by way of many American evangelicals because the sparks of a spiritual revival between little ones. Cassie and Rachel, as innocents martyred for religion, additionally grew to become worthwhile symbols for these looking to improve a conservative political time table and to put the blame for Columbine on the toes in their liberal rivals. in line with police investigators, besides the fact that, Cassie and Rachel might by no means were requested by means of their killers approximately God. they might were easily sufferers of a mindless crime instead of martyrs to a reason. The Martyrs of Columbine presents a cautious exam of the on hand proof and makes an attempt to find what rather happened. regardless of those questions the martyr-stories endured to be informed and the non secular and political use of Cassie and Rachel keeps. the preferred value of the martyrs of Columbine persists, and will also be becoming. How and why is that this occurring? The Martyrs of Columbine is a groundbreaking research of what this tragedy has come and should come to intend in American faith, politics, and culture.
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86 McPherson, Cassie’s youth pastor, took this theme of eroticized love of God to completion when he told those at her funeral not to cry because the service was actually a celebration of her wedding that had taken place in heaven. ”87 Cassie’s own words also seem to hint that she had thought about facing death. ”88 A note reportedly found in her room reads in part, “I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. ”89 In a book 46 | THE MARTYRS OF COLUMBINE used by Cassie’s youth group, Discipleship by Heinrich Arnold, she had underlined these passages on suffering and death: “It is important for us to decide whether we want only a nice church or the way of the cross.
He talked about Cassie—“It was a large youth rally that night and over 500 kids came to the altar. ” These testimonials were grouped thematically with biblical stories about David, Elijah, Paul, Peter, Joshua, Gideon, Jeremiah, and others. The back cover bears a quotation attributed to Cassie. “I want to live completely for God. ”17 A teen-led youth ministry, Revival Generation, established by coincidence in the Littleton, Colorado, area shortly before the shooting, experienced rapid growth. The ministry’s leader and spokesperson, Josh Weidmann, said that before Columbine the group was receiving 5 calls a week about how to set up Bible study and prayer groups in public schools.
But the real staying power of the story was rooted in its religious import. To those evangelicals for whom the public proclamation of their beliefs is essential, Cassie’s last words became a rallying cry for the cause of Christ. As Reverend Dave McPherson, the youth pastor of Cassie’s church, a congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, said at her funeral service, “Jesus fed 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fish. ”5 POPULAR RESPONSES Evidence of this elevation of Cassie within the evangelical community was anecdotal but easy to find.
The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and The Politics of Tragedy by Justin Watson (auth.)
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