The alleged shooter also said “God will raise apostles and prophets in America” in one of the sermons. It is that language in particular, the experts say Wired, who connects it to the world of charismatic Christianity.
“Everything I saw indicates that he is charismatic,” says Matthew Taylor, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimora and author of The violent take force: the Christian movement that is threatening our democracy. “The supernatural, speaking of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, while using a very repentacostal style of speech in its preaching.”
Abortion in the independent charismatic Christian movement is often characterized as a demonic practice. The police say that the car that the alleged abandoned shooter contained a long list of democratic legislators, suppliers of abortions and supporters of frank abortion in the state. Charismatic Christians often speak of abortion in terms of “infantile sacrifice to demons”, says Taylor.
“I don’t think it’s difficult to see how someone could be radicalized around that language,” he claims.
The now deleted Facebook profile of the alleged shooter also showed that he liked “a page for the alliance that defends freedom, a conservative legal defense organization known for his rigid positions against abortion and LGBTQ rights.” This reports at least one right-wing anti-abortion sentence “, says Taylor.
David Carlson, who met the alleged shooter from the fourth grade and described the 57 -year -old as his best friend, told journalists that the alleged shooter was a Trump supporter, “very conservative” and would be offended if someone suggested otherwise. (In the aftermath of the filming, however, the far -right influencers, including people like Elon Musk, tried to blame the left and the deep state.)
According to Taylor, it is likely that the theological ideas of the alleged shooter were rooted in his time at Christ for the Nations Institute, a charismatic college Bible in Dallas, Texas, said he spent some time, according to a biography on the website of the Rivoro archived. Taylor states that a number of prominent figures in the independent charismatic Christian movement have profound bonds or frequented at the institute.
Dutch Sheets, a Nar Pastor who popularized the flag of the “Appeal to Heaven” greeted by nationalists and Christians on January 6, 2021, graduated from the Institute in 1978 and worked as a contract professor there in the late 1980s and the early 90s; Subsequently he returned briefly as an instructor in 2012. Cindy Jacobs, a passionate Trump supporter who was described as one of the most influential prophets in America, settled in Dallas in the 80s and, according to Taylor, was regularly in the lesson of the campus of the Institute or the teaching of the guests. The suspicious shooter was enrolled in the Institute from 1988 to 1990, which means that he could overlap some of these figures.
When Wired he contacted the Institute, they directed our question to a declaration by saying that “he refuses unequivocally, denounces and condemns any form of violence and extremism, be it political, racial, religious or otherwise motivated”. The declaration also claimed to be “stunning and horrified” that an institution’s pupil was a suspicion in the minnesota shootings. “This is not what we are. This is not what we teach.” Jacobs and sheets did not respond to requests for comment.
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