To quote Breivik in his own words taken from his 1500+ page manifesto he writes:
"I'm not going to pretend I'm a very religious person, as that would be a lie, I've always been very pragmatic and influenced by my secular surroundings and environment."
""As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over biblical teachings. Europe has always been the cradle of science, and it must always continue to be that way. Regarding my personal relationship with God, I guess I'm not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic. However, I am a supporter of a monocultural Christian Europe."
Concerning his views on Christianity he writes:
As this is a cultural war, our definition of being a Christian does not necessarily constitute that you are required to have a personal relationship with God or Jesus," he writes. "Being a Christian can mean many things; That you believe in and want to protect Europe's Christian cultural heritage.... It is enough that you are a Christian-agnostic or a Christian atheist.
While Breivik professed to be a Christian it's clear it was in name only, he was far more secular than he was religious. Not only did he not believe that one had to believe in God or Jesus to be a Christian but he also showed no regard for the commandment "thou shall not kill" (i.e. murder). These are major tenets of Christianity that one has to believe in order to be a Christian. What Breivik believed in was a form of psuedo Christianity mixed with other ideologies, including paganism and Darwinism. He descried himself practicing certain rituals and meditation to strengthen his beliefs and convictions.
So why is Christianity getting a bum rap? I liken it to someone putting on a police officers uniform and then robbing a bank. Would putting on a police uniform make someone a real cop? No. Would we also blame all cops that the bank was robbed? No. That analogy applies here too. There's one person that came to kill, steal, and destroy Jhn 10:19 and that would be Satan. Anyone who does those things is following him and not God.
