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Former classmates say Texas gunman was an 'outcast' who 'preached his atheism online'
Daily Mail ^ | 11-5-2017 | Jenny Stanton

Posted on 11/05/2017 9:00:51 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

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To: Rebelbase

You have to work harder to flunk than pass.


41 posted on 11/05/2017 9:51:30 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Gideon7

Did he volunteer to be a VBS helper, a Bible study leader, or both? I’ve heard different reports, and it makes a difference.

If to be a VBS helper it could have been to scout out the church.

His kid isn’t old enough to be in VBS, right?

Is the FB photo a photo of his kid? Is his wife Black?


42 posted on 11/05/2017 9:52:28 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Blue House Sue

Covfefe


43 posted on 11/05/2017 9:54:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Jamestown1630
It's not about you, it's about them. Probably have a guilty conscience and don't like to be reminded of the fact that they're sinners, so they try to belittle Christians or equate them with extremist muslims.
44 posted on 11/05/2017 9:55:28 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: butterdezillion

Teacher aid for VBS at a church in Kingsville, TX.


45 posted on 11/05/2017 10:01:31 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The anti-Christian incitement from the Left encourages these sickos.


46 posted on 11/05/2017 10:02:31 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: butterdezillion

VBS “teacher” when he was a teen.


47 posted on 11/05/2017 10:03:29 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: sagar
"The Athiest says “There is No God but me”.
48 posted on 11/05/2017 10:03:41 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: Jamestown1630
I don’t understand why people who don’t believe feel a need to “preach” their non-belief...

...because atheism is a religion whose god is named Id.

49 posted on 11/05/2017 10:04:20 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: freespirit2012

Christians generally, I believe and hope, understand the truth that Jesus spoke when he said, “As sin increases, so shall my grace’.

Christians will be spared nothing and that we “endure ‘til the end”, as He hoped, is our fateful and faithful charge.

The wicked have gained a foot hold and now feign in mourning over that which they have wrought. Godlessness has its consequences.


50 posted on 11/05/2017 10:05:29 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: butterdezillion

maybe he just wanted to get close to children... either to influence them negatively or to get within physical range.


51 posted on 11/05/2017 10:06:37 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: butterdezillion

He abused his wife and son.


52 posted on 11/05/2017 10:07:33 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Hmm. The VBS stuff isn’t related to this then. Different church and too long ago.

But had he recently done anything with this church?


53 posted on 11/05/2017 10:08:00 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Bob434

Anxious to hear so many things, curious about his family, but one thing is of course the source of all those guns he had in his car that he was not permitted to possess.


54 posted on 11/05/2017 10:08:50 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: piasa

Yeah, could be. Or maybe he had a stint where he was trying to “find religion” and became atheist when it didn’t work for him. I don’t know. So many different ways the story could go.


55 posted on 11/05/2017 10:09:48 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Rebelbase

Worked at a water park as security too... another job that would put him in close proximity to kids. On the other hand with his education and problems there may not have been many jobs available to him. I’m more than a little concerned about anyone hiring someone who was dishonorably discharged as a security guard.


56 posted on 11/05/2017 10:10:43 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: proudpapa

“Well one thing is for certain. The shooter is no less longer an atheist.”

True! But he is uncomfortable due to the extreme heat.
Meeting Satan is not the way to discover God.


57 posted on 11/05/2017 10:15:02 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

So he was an atheist terrorist. Gotta make the label truthful and make it stick...


58 posted on 11/05/2017 10:16:11 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Or alternatively, an atheist extremist...


59 posted on 11/05/2017 10:18:00 PM PST by Crucial
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To: butterdezillion

His wife’s mother was associated with the church, as someone upthread noted.

As for dressing in black, ISIS fans do that as well as Antifa, Black Bloc, etc.

Nihilism.


60 posted on 11/05/2017 10:18:04 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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