According to David Neiwert, the Terri Schiavo case has attracted the attention of some religious crackpots who call themselves members of the "Phineas Priesthood." According to a number of websites, they consider religious murders biblically justified:

The Biblical reference indicates that Phineas, a priest, killed an Israelite man who was having sexual relations with a Midianite woman by thrusting a javelin through both of them together. This act of double murder apparently made God reverse his plan to set a plague on Israel for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab." And because Phineas was "zealous for my sake," God was moved to set up "the covenant of an everlasting priesthood." Contemporary Phineas Priests interpret these and other Biblical passages as a justification for the murder of "race-mixers" and for a program of establishing a whites only, Christian only, state in North America. Phineas priests believe themselves to be called by God to the use of any form of violence to re-establish what they claim to be "God's Law." Phineas actions, involving murder, arson, kidnapping, bombing, and armed robbery, become sacred actions designed to deliver the US and Canada from adultery, taxation, homosexuality, abortion, interracial marriages, and multiculturalism.

While the above comes from a Communist web site, I verified independently that there is a loosely affiliated network of Christian murderers who claim they're killing in the name of their bigoted god, who (so they claim) hates race mixing:

*Numbers 25:6-13
6 "And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his breathern a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7 "And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

8 "And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

9 "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10 "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

11 "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

12 "Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

13 "And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel."

This passage goes on and God gives to Phineas a perpetual, eternal priesthood. Then in verse 17, God commands the children of Israel to kill all of the Midianites. We note that Phineas killed both the non-white woman and metaphorically the mongrel offspring, by stabbing her through the womb. The man also was killed, as prescribed by the law which we have previously cited. Phineas's grandson, Esdras, faced the same problem. His final solution was again, as commanded by God, to command the offenders to kill the women and the offspring. Phineas is recorded in Israelite history as one of the greatest of all Israelites for his action of killing this race-mixing couple. In fact, Sirach 45:23 (LXX) records that Phineas was the third in glory, behind only Moses and Aaron, among all the heroes of Israel:

"The third in glory is Phineas the son of Eleazar, because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of heart when the people were turned back, and made reconciliation for Israel."

So Phineas's actions and those of Esdras are certainly among the most honorable in the Bible. Returning to Esdras, we notice also from that passage that the Israelites were first guilty of prescriptions given by the prophets and servants regarding these non-whites. This was the injunction that they were to eliminate these non-white mongreled peoples from the land before inhabiting it.

Etc.

It's too late, and I'm too tired.

Besides, the real Phineas was a guy who thought there was one born every minute.

He was probably right.