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Suspect in Atlanta Spa killings ‘Big Into Religion’
Religion News Service ^ | 3/17/21 | Roxanne Stone

Posted on 03/17/2021 5:44:51 PM PDT by marshmallow

Six of the eight victims were Asian women, raising concerns among the already alarmed Asian American community, which has faced a recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes around the country.

(RNS) — A Woodstock, Georgia, resident has been arrested after a killing spree left eight dead in spas around the greater Atlanta area Tuesday (March 16).

Robert Aaron Long, 21, has been arrested in connection with the killings of four women at a spa in Cherokee County, Georgia, and four additional women in two other spas in northeast Atlanta, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

According to police, the suspect told them he had a “sexual addiction,” and he carried out the slayings to get rid of the temptation such places posed to him. Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said Long claimed he was on his way to Florida, where he had planned to commit similar acts of violence at a place connected with “the porn industry there.”

Six of the eight spa victims were Asian women, raising concerns among the already alarmed Asian American community, which has faced a recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes around the country. Nearly 3,800 hate-related incidents have been reported by Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday by Stop AAPI Hate. Authorities have said it is too early to tell if Tuesday’s attacks were racially motivated.

“The reported shootings of Asian American women on Tuesday in Atlanta is an unspeakable tragedy — for the families of the victims first and foremost, but also for the AAPI community — which has been reeling from high levels of racial discrimination,” tweeted Stop AAPI Hate on Tuesday evening.

An official from the South Korean Consulate in Atlanta confirmed that four of the slain women............

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TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: atlanta; massageparlors; murders
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1 posted on 03/17/2021 5:44:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

My religion includes “Thou shalt not kill”.


2 posted on 03/17/2021 5:47:39 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: marshmallow

SATANIC religion maybe. he looks like a LOSER BERNIE BRO!


3 posted on 03/17/2021 5:47:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: marshmallow

Suspect was a SEX ADDICT as per police report, not racially motivated. Chinese parlors are financial bonanzas for cold cash happy endings. They screwed his mind


4 posted on 03/17/2021 5:48:08 PM PDT by Broker (Truth & Transparency & Equal Justice)
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To: marshmallow
Looks like this is an "anti-religious" news service.

Never heard of it before.

5 posted on 03/17/2021 5:49:06 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marshmallow

“Suspect in Atlanta Spa killings ‘Big Into Religion’”

Who? Swaggart? Murdoch? Baker? The snake handlers? Moslem? Judaism?


6 posted on 03/17/2021 5:50:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: marshmallow

Sounds like a nut.


7 posted on 03/17/2021 5:50:28 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: marshmallow

Well, islamists are big into killing.


8 posted on 03/17/2021 5:50:33 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: ryderann

Mine has thou shalt not kill without just cause. Or the shorter verion, thou shall not murder.


9 posted on 03/17/2021 5:52:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Suspect in Atlanta Spa killings ‘Big Into Ten Commandments’


10 posted on 03/17/2021 5:53:13 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ) )
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To: marktwain
Looks like this is an "anti-religious" news service. Never heard of it before.

At first glance, it appears it's a far left SJW, BLM, LGBTQ, anti-Christian site.

11 posted on 03/17/2021 5:53:15 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: marshmallow

I have known a couple of people in my sixty seven years who claimed to be “godly” or some similar term. My first thought has always been, gee, shouldn’t I be able to tell? Why does he have to tell me? I have had the privilege’s to know several people who I discovered were Christians through their wonderful deeds. Not once has any of those people told me that they are religious or godly. It just shines through.

But the others, who have to tell you, well, they usually have a real loose screw. They often end up doing things that are illegal, or unethical or just harmful to others.


12 posted on 03/17/2021 5:54:33 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Broker

A lot of the women that work in these places are sex slaves brought in from Asia.


13 posted on 03/17/2021 5:55:01 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: marshmallow
There was a song that he missed...

Imaginary Lover by the Atlanta Rhythem Section.

14 posted on 03/17/2021 5:56:41 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Yeah, Mohamed was “big into religion” too.

I’m a little surprised that they haven’t proclaimed him to be a Proud Boy, Oath Keeper, KKK, White Supremacist, Tucker Carlson Listner Trumpster. YET.

YET being the key word.


15 posted on 03/17/2021 6:00:08 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Gen.Blather

Jesus said, Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:16


16 posted on 03/17/2021 6:03:58 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Broker
According to police, the suspect told them he had a “sexual addiction,” and he carried out the slayings to get rid of the temptation such places posed to him.

Yes, this has nothing to do with the fact the women were Asian and everything to do with the fact he blamed them for his so-called sex addiction. He was probably a frequent flyer.

He also said his next target was the "porn industry" in Florida, which employs very few Asians.

17 posted on 03/17/2021 6:05:48 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: marshmallow

If the racist label turns out to be false then they will shift to the tried and true (in their eyes) religious fanatic
story. They have every base covered that way.


18 posted on 03/17/2021 6:17:19 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: marshmallow

Into which religion?

He has a mental illness haircut.

And a Moslim beard.


19 posted on 03/17/2021 6:17:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: marshmallow

he was also a ‘regular’ at all three parlors according to a new report:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/parents-of-the-suspected-shooter-in-the-atlanta-spa-killings-identified-their-son-to-the-police-after-reporting-he-had-a-gps-tracker-that-could-lead-them-to-his-car/ar-BB1eHmrI?ocid=msedgntp


20 posted on 03/17/2021 6:21:01 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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