Religious Right violence?

Frank Schaeffer quoted in the article, "Former right-wing leader warns of religious right violence: ‘Anyone can be killed’"

"The bestselling status of the Left Behind novels proves that, not unlike Islamist terrorists who behead their enemies, many evangelical/fundamentalist readers relish the prospect of God doing lots of messy killing for them as they watch in comfort from on high," he added. "They want revenge on all people not like them -- forever."

Is he being alarmist? Isn't it more likely that violence would come from someone associated with militias? (See SPLC's article on militias.) Or does Schaeffer have in mind specifically violence not against politicians or civil servants but people or facilities associated with abortion. (See this Kansas City Star article.)

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[Infidel753]

Isn't it more likely that violence would come from someone associated with militias?

Is this an entirely meaningful distinction? The white-supremacist and "armament fetish" wings of the extreme right are pretty infested with radical religion themselves -- think of the "Christian identity" concept, for example. They may not be too closely tied to the strain of quasi-intellectual fundamentalism that Schaeffer emerged from, but a lot of them probably have a pretty strong religious and apocalyptic element in their thinking.