%0 Electronic Article %A Salomonsen, Jone %I Wiley-Blackwell %D 2015 %G English %@ 1540-6385 %T Graced Life After All? Terrorism and Theology on July 22, 2011 %J Dialog %V 54 %N 3 %P 249-259 %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dial.12186/abstract %U https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12186 %X On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Oslo. A majority of those killed where Social Democratic youth, camping on the island of Utøya. Dressed as a Norwegian policeman, Anders Behring Breivik took the ferry over to the island and shot sixty-nine children with a pistol and a semi-automatic gun. The weapons were carved with Rune names and dedicated to Thor and Odin, the war gods in Norse mythology. About ninety minutes before the attacks, Breivik had published a 1,500-page manifesto on the Internet, urging radical nationalists in Europe to defend Christianity by fighting back Islamic migration, multiculturalism, and feminism. I propose to analyze how a new project linking “Christian and pagan” was launched through the Oslo massacres. I also make a distinction between the sacrificial aspects of a bloody massacre, and the non-bloody acts of love that manifested among surviving youth at Utøya, and ask if these contrary acts express, or at least involve, two radically different ways of doing religion.