Authorities say a journalist and advocate who rose from homelessness and addiction to serve as a spokesperson for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable was shot and killed at his home early Monday.

A journalist and advocate who rose from homelessness and addiction to serve as a spokesperson for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable was shot and killed at his home early Monday, police said.

Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times at about 1:30 a.m. and collapsed in the street after seeking help, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. Police believe the door to his Point Breeze home was unlocked or the shooter knew how to get in, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. No arrests have been made and no weapons have been recovered, they said.

Authorities haven’t spoken publicly about the circumstances surrounding the killing.

  • Nahvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    1 year ago

    There is a difference between attacking someone who chooses a disgusting belief system and bigotry.

    Bigotry is thinking, what I believe is right and everyone who believes differently is wrong.

    To point at all varieties of Christianity and say, “you are bad,” is being bigoted.

    Now go restore Roe v. Wade or you are useless to me.

    If you want someone useful here are some people that agree with you and will help you fight, assuming you can manage to not call their belief system disgusting to their faces:

    Rev. Angela Williams, a Presbyterian pastor and the lead organizer of SACReD: Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity, told Healthline that faith leaders and religious groups that support abortion rights have been preparing for this moment for a long time.

    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/meet-the-religious-groups-fighting-to-save-abortion-access

    Members of the Episcopal Church (79%) and the United Church of Christ (72%) are especially likely to support legal abortion, while most members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the mainline Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (65%) also take this position.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/01/22/american-religious-groups-vary-widely-in-their-views-of-abortion/

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 year ago

      Bigotry is thinking, what I believe is right and everyone who believes differently is wrong.

      No. That is just being human.

      To point at all varieties of Christianity and say, “you are bad,” is being bigoted.

      Ok? It isnt some weird charm argument winner. You can call me any nasty thing you want and that won’t raise from the dead a single Iraqi or stop a single 14 year old girl having to induce an at home abortion because her uncle raped her.

      If you want someone useful here are some people that agree with you and will help you fight, assuming you can manage to not call their belief system disgusting to their faces:

      Not good enough. I want to hear a Christian shaman to say that anyone who opposes their religion on the rest of us is no longer a Christian. Disown or own. I like hot beverages and cold ones but not lukewarm ones.

      • Nahvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        No. That is just being human.

        No. That is just being arrogant. You can be human and acknowledge that your stance is an opinion and that there are other just as valid opinions. Yours just fits you better.

        You can call me any nasty thing you want

        To the best of my memory, I haven’t called you anything. I was pointing out OC’s bigoted statement.

        I want to hear a Christian shaman to say that anyone who opposes their religion on the rest of us is no longer a Christian.

        Ever heard of a Schism? Virtually every denomination in America thinks the others aren’t doing it right. Half of them won’t acknowledge each other as real Christians.

        In fact, there are major schisms forming right now over LGBT issues. Methodists have been constantly in the news regarding their LGBT schism for the last year or two.

        https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-07-06/one-in-five-united-methodist-congregations-in-the-us-have-left-the-denomination-over-lgbtq-conflicts

        Another article points out :

        But the United Methodist Church is also the latest of several mainline Protestant denominations in America to begin fracturing, just as Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian denominations lost significant minorities of churches and members this century amid debates over sexuality and theology.

        https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-10-10/united-methodists-are-breaking-up-in-a-slow-motion-schism

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
          33·
          1 year ago

          Talk is cheap. Excommunicate Christians who vote religion into government and spend every single tithe on restoring Roe v. Wade.

          Or you can call me a bigot again for not respecting your skydaddy and Jesus. Just so you are aware: Jesus never even existed.

          • Nahvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Jesus never even existed.

            Please do a little research before making such ridiculous statements. You do not have to believe in a god to believe a man named Jesus existed. There is likely more evidence for the existence of a man named Jesus than there is for the existence of your own great-great-grandmother.

            Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed. The contrary perspective, that Jesus was mythical, is regarded as a fringe theory.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

            Excommunicate Christians who vote religion into government and spend every single tithe on restoring Roe v. Wade.

            If this is where you set the bar for treating Christians like anyone should treat another human then there really isn’t anywhere to go in this conversation.

            Not that it really matters but I am not a Christian. I am just someone that believes all humans should be treated with a bit of respect until they prove they are not worthy of it by their own personal words and actions.

            • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              I am just someone that believes all humans should be treated with a bit of respect until they prove they are not worthy of it by their own personal words and actions.

              That’s what afraid_of_zombies has been saying all this time.

              • Nahvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                That’s what afraid_of_zombies has been saying all this time.

                Then they have a funny way of expressing it. It sounds a lot more like they were defending a bigoted statement by saying someone can’t be bigoted against people from religions they find disgusting.

                There is a difference between attacking someone who chooses a disgusting belief system and bigotry.

                https://lemmy.world/comment/4026429

                Edit: added people from

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
              24·
              1 year ago

              Please do a little research before making such ridiculous statements. You do not have to believe in a god to believe a man named Jesus existed. There is likely more evidence for the existence of a man named Jesus than there is for the existence of your own great-great-grandmother.

              Zero. Zero. Zero. Contemporary evidence the man existed. All we have is hearsay by known liars decades later. As for my great-great grandmother I have seen her Elis Island file and my grandmother had a photo of her from turn of last century. In case you are curious one of my great great grandfather was a dean at an certain major university.

              I am sure if I made an effort I could also get her marriage certificate and census record.

              Yet your Jesus left nothing behind, pretty sus.

              Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed.

              Ding ding ding argument from authority! Gotcha. Basic logical fallacy. Ding ding ding ding. Guess they don’t teach basic logic and research methods in your weekly pretend time.

              Not that it really matters but I am not a Christian.

              What type of sky-daddyism do you follow? Let me know so I can point out how wrong it is. Is it cliche agnostic but not really or mall yoga Hinduism or Buddha was a pot smoker?