Christian terrorism has been getting quantifiably worse in the last 10 years too.
I can’t say with any confidence why. But my pet theory is that it could be due to the increasing political polarization in the US, combined with the fact that religious power has been waning. The extremists can see that they’re losing grip on their hegemony, and are acting out to try and re-establish their control, whether or not they consciously know that’s what they’re doing.
Mixing black and white morality with black and white group favoritism and black and white politics leads to perverse rationalization of violence in the name of a basically evil god. And there’s just so many useful idiots who never bothered to read the bible with a critical eye for the ideologues to exploit.
