
Norwegian pastor Olav Fykse Tveit offered a one-word assessment of Anders Behring Breivik's claim that Christianity motivated his gruesome massacre of 76 people in Norway on July 22: "blasphemous."

Breivik surrendered to police after committing a horrific two-part rampage—detonating explosives in government buildings in Oslo that killed eight then opening fire on terrified youth at a summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island, killing at least 68, including many teenagers.

In a rambling 1,500-word manifesto, Breivik wrote that he was trying to save "European Christendom" from an Islamic takeover by Muslim immigrants. The attacks targeted offices of the ruling Labor Party, which is sympathetic to broadened immigration policies, and youth at an annual Labor Party camp for hundreds of promising young leaders.

