The alleged shooter also said that “God will increase the apostles and prophets in America” in one of the sermons. It is this particular language, according to experts, which connects it to the world of charismatic Christianity.
“Everything I have seen indicates that it is charismatic,” says Matthew Taylor, senior scholar of the Institute of Islamic Studies, Christians and Jews in Baltimore and author of The violent is taken by force: the Christian movement that threatens our democracy. “The supernatural, speaking of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, while using a very Pentecostal style of speech in its preaching.”
Abortion in the independent charismatic movement is often characterized as a demonic practice. Police say that the car that the alleged abandoned shooter contained a long list of democratic legislators, abortion providers, and proponents of state abortion. Charismatic Christians often speak of abortion in terms of “child sacrifice for demons,” says Taylor.
“I don’t think it’s hard to see how someone can radicalize around this language,” he says.
The alleged Facebook profile is now eliminated by shooters also showed that a page for the defending Freedom Alliance, a conservative legal defense organization known for its harsh postures against abortion and LGBTQ rights, had “liked”. “This indicates at least an anti-right-wing conviction of right,” says Taylor.
David Carlson, who has known 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 anyone suggested the opposite. (However, after the shooting, however, far -right influential, including people like Elon Musk intended to blame the left and the deep state.)
According to Taylor, the shooter’s alleged theological ideas were rooted in Christ for the Nations Institute, a charismatic Biblical College of Dallas, Texas, said that he had a time, according to a biography on the file of filed revoformation. Taylor claims that several prominent figures of the independent charismatic movement have deep or assisted links at the institute.
Dutch sheets, a Nar shepherd who popularized the “Appeal to the sky” Flag Waved by Christian Nationalists and Rioters on Januarry 6, 2021, Graduated from the Institute in 1978, and the work as an attached professor Thein the Late 1980s and Early 1990s; He LATER BRIEFLY RETURNED As an instructor in 2012. Cindy Jacobs, an Avid of Trump Who Hums AS ONE OF THE INFLIENTIAL Prophets in America, Settled in Dallas in the 1980s, and According to Taylor, was regularly on the Institute’s campus or the guest documentation.
When Wied contacted the institute, they went to our consultation to a statement saying that “it rejects unequivocally, denounces and condemns any forms of violence and extremism, whether politically, racially, religiously or otherwise.” The statement also said that they were “rugged and horrified” that a high school student was a suspect in Minnesota’s executions. “It’s not who we are. This is not what we teach.” Jacobs and Sheets did not respond to comments applications.
