Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump.
/waits for the Right wingers to declare “mental illness”. The only time mental health matters to them.
He was a member of New Apostolic Reformation, a Christian terrorist group. A group that is popular with Republicans like house speaker Mike Johnson.
And he learned nothing but hate from both.
Thou shall not kill?
This is the exact bullshit we could brand someone that follows Islamist ideology with.
The major difference: Islamist groups purposely (as I recall learning in a college level North American religions course taught me) twist actual Islamic ideology while the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.
EDIT: Going to Trump rallies could be equated as the Christian Right version of terrorist training camps.
EDIT 2: My point about describing someone who assassinated people as “religious”, will place a false connotation on a group. It either paints the killer as misguided or followers of that religious faith as bad people. This is what happened with 9/11.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ have been warning about violent Christian Nationalism for years now. They’ve been the biggest threat to America for a long time now.
Pretending these people aren’t religious nuts doesn’t help anyone.
He abided strictly by the 13th commandment: “thou shall not kill those who agree with you”
We must have lost that one somewhere along the way
Not a trans person, gay person, Muslim or Mexican??? CRAAAAZYYYY!!!
He was groomed by a trans person. For sure.
Ah yes, I believe it’s the 6th commandment “Thou shalt not kill, unless you disagree with the person you’re killing then it’s totally fine”
Technically the commandment is, “Thou shalt not murder” and I’ve heard some use that as an out. If the commandment was “Thou shalt not kill”, then one would violate it if one were in the military or police and had to kill someone, or even if one had to kill someone in self defense. They see it as a rule against committing unjustified homicide. If the person deserves to die, then it’s okay to kill them.
Yeah, convoluted logic, but we’re talking about people who believe an invisible sky wizard is watching them all the time and will consign them to eternal torture if they whack off.
Also the next thing Moses does after Mt Sinai is go and genocide an entire nation. Also the previous thing Moses did before Mt Sinai was genocide an entire nation with God-powered finger-lasers
There’s a lot of genocide, and lots of other ugly stuff in the Bible. We really shouldn’t be using it as a guide to build our society.
Funny how people who believe in imaginary ‘friends’ tend to be the first to reveal themselves as psychopaths. Was it “god’s plan” for you to be a murderer?
Labeling a religious figure as an imaginary friend is very reductionist. Instead, go to the root issue. Right wing political messaging corrupted and brainwashed this person to be an ultra nationalist using lies to prey on his core beliefs through fear, religion, and superiority complex.
Reductive? Maybe. Accurate? Certainly.
The point is- this person’s brain was primed with indoctrination already. He just swapped gods. Religion is a sickness, and he is a great example of how bad that sickness can get.
Religion is a sickness in YOUR opinion. Rationalism is just as dangerous as any other -ism whether it be Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, Moral Absolutism, or Atheism. Just because you think you’re right doesn’t mean that you are. Instead maybe focus on spreading your moral message constructively instead of destructively. You’re bullhorn-ing exactly what his indoctrinators said the outside world is trying to do–destroy his religion.
I’m sorry you feel that way. You’re just wrong, though. Religion is cancer, and should be treated as such. Private spirituality is fine, but once you start saying what others are allowed to do based off of your religious upbringing, it’s literally just fascism with an imaginary friend as the leader.
I see the issue. You’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Obviously telling others what they can and can’t do or sowing violence while using your religion as justification is bad. But even the bible says that spirituality should be practiced in private. There’s nuance to the world and just because bad things happen due to corrupted religious teaching doesn’t mean that all religion or spirituality is bad.
