Posted on 11/05/2017 9:00:51 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
The Texas church shooter who mercilessly shot dead 26 people and injured 24 others was an 'outcast' who 'preached his atheism' online.
Former classmates say Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, who stormed First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas and opened fire on Sunday, was 'creepy', 'crazy' and 'weird'.
Patrick Boyce, who attended New Braunfels High School with the killer, told DailyMail.com: 'He had a kid or two, fairly normal, but kinda quiet and lately seemed depressed.
'He was the first atheist I met. He went Air Force after high school, got discharged but I don't know why. 'I was just shocked [to hear the news]. Still havent quite processed how he could have done that.'
Nina Rose Nava, who went to school with the gunman, wrote on Facebook: 'In (sic) in complete shock! I legit just deleted him off my fb cause I couldn't stand his post. 'He was always talking about how people who believe in God we're stupid and trying to preach his atheism'
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You have to work harder to flunk than pass.
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?
Covfefe
Teacher aid for VBS at a church in Kingsville, TX.
The anti-Christian incitement from the Left encourages these sickos.
VBS “teacher” when he was a teen.
...because atheism is a religion whose god is named Id.
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.
maybe he just wanted to get close to children... either to influence them negatively or to get within physical range.
He abused his wife and son.
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?
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.
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.
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.
“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.
So he was an atheist terrorist. Gotta make the label truthful and make it stick...
Or alternatively, an atheist extremist...
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.
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