Ammon Bundy Says the Bible Wanted Him to Take Over a Bird Sanctuary
Here’s a reminder that one of the disturbingly weird motivations behind the domestic terrorist takeover of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge is plain old right wing religious fanaticism.
“We read in Genesis where God gives the earth to man, he did not give it to government, he gave it to man to care and to cultivate, and that means to take care of it and to use it. That is necessary and that is what the Lord has done.”
Bundy went on to say that the government is violating “scriptural” precepts by controlling land, before arguing that his militia needed to use “shock and awe” to “remove the chains of tyranny and the chains of oppression so the people can regain a hope.”