Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump.

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    Funny how people who believe in imaginary ‘friends’ tend to be the first to reveal themselves as psychopaths. Was it “god’s plan” for you to be a murderer?

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    Ah yes, I believe it’s the 6th commandment “Thou shalt not kill, unless you disagree with the person you’re killing then it’s totally fine”

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    This is the exact bullshit we could brand someone that follows Islamist ideology with.

    The major difference: Islamist groups purposely (as I recall learning in a college level North American religions course taught me) twist actual Islamic ideology while the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.

    EDIT: Going to Trump rallies could be equated as the Christian Right version of terrorist training camps.

    EDIT 2: My point about describing someone who assassinated people as “religious”, will place a false connotation on a group. It either paints the killer as misguided or followers of that religious faith as bad people. This is what happened with 9/11.

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      the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.

      A less generous interpretation is that they do but don’t care about the parts they disagree with. There’s a lot of cherry picking going on with them, and that totally tracks with being the world’s #4 exporter of cherries.

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      It does, however, sound very much like American conservative Christian to me.