The Minnesota Shooting Suspect’s Background Suggests Deep Ties to Christian Nationalism

“God will raise the apostles and prophets in America,” said the alleged shooter. This language, in particular, tells experts, Wire, which connects it to the charismatic Christian world.

Matthew Taylor, researcher at the Institute of Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore and author of “All I have seen” indicates that he is ongoing. ” Violence takes it by force: the Christian movement that threatens our democracy. “The supernatural, talks about the talents of the Holy Spirit, while the style of rhetoric is very used to preach.”

Abortion of independent charismatic Christian movement is often characterized by a demonic practice. Police says that the car, which was abandoned by the alleged shooter, contains a long list of democratic lawmakers, abortion offices, and explicit abortion advocates in the state. Taylor says that Carisimid Christians often talk about miscarriage in terms of “the child’s sacrifice with demons.”

“I don’t think it is difficult to see how someone can be extremist around this language,” he claims.

The alleged Facebook file that has now been deleted showed that it was “loved” a page for the Defense of Freedom Defense Alliance, a conservative legal advocacy organization known for its solid positions against abortion and LGBTQ rights. “This indicates at least a condemnation of the anti -abortion,” says Taylor.

David Carlson, who knew the alleged shooter since the fourth row and described the 57 -year -old as his best friend, told reporters that the alleged shooter was in support of Trump, “very conservative”, and they will be insulted if anyone suggested otherwise. (In the aftermath of the shooting, the right -wing extremist influence, including people such as Elon Musk, sought to blame the leftists and the deep state.)

It is possible, according to Taylor, that the theological ideas of the alleged shooting were rooted in his time at the Institute of Christ for the Institute of Nations, a college for the Carismi Bible in Dallas, Texas, who claimed to spend time in the CV on Rechase Revoformation. Taylor claims that a number of prominent figures in the independent charismatic Christian movement have profound relations with the institute or attended.

The Dutch Sheets, a Nar priest who was popular with the “call to heaven” by Christian nationalists and riots in the American Capitol on January 6, 2021, graduated from the institute in 1978 and worked as an assistant professor there in the late eighties and early nineties; He later returned shortly as a teacher in 2012. Cindy Jacobs, a thirsty supporter of Trump who described as one of the most influential prophets in America, settled in Dallas in the 1980s, and according to Taylor, he was on the campus on campus or guests. The suspected shooter at the institute was recorded from 1988 to 1990, which means that he could have interfered with some of these numbers.

When WIRED contacted the institute, they directed our inquiry to a statement saying that he “unambiguously rejects, condemns and condemns any forms of violence and extremism, whether in terms of political, racist, religious or in another way.” The statement also said that they were “delicate and vocabulary” that graduates of one of the institute were suspected of shooting at Minnesota. “This is not from us. This is not what we know.” Jacobs and the papers did not respond to the suspension requests.