Texas Gunman ‘Preached’ Atheism
The alleged Texas church shooter reportedly made multiple postings on Facebook in which he “preached his atheism.”
Patrick Boyce, who attended New Braunfels High School near San Antonio with Devin Patrick Kelley, told The Daily Mail, “He was the first atheist I met. He went Air Force after high school, got discharged but I don’t know why.”
Nina Rose Nava, who also went to high school with the killer, wrote on Facebook, “He was always talking about how people who believe in God we’re stupid and trying to preach his atheism.”
Michael Goff also chimed in on Facebook: “[Kelley] was weird but never that damn weird, always posting his atheist s— like Nina wrote, but damn he always posted pics of him and his baby — crazy.”
While serving in the Air Force, Kelley was convicted by a military court in 2012 of assaulting his wife and child. He spent 12 months in military prison and afterward was discharged from the Air Force.
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Despite his postings about atheism, Kelley listed volunteering as a teacher for Bible studies at Kingsville Baptist Church on his LinkedIn profile.
The 26-year-old had recently posted a photo of Ruger AR-556 on his Facebook page with the caption: “She’s a bad b—-h,” according to The Daily Mail.
Kelley killed 26 people and injured approximately 20 more at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. His victims ranged in age from 18 months to 77 years old.
The accused gunman was confronted as he left the church by Stephen Willeford, 55, who shot and injured him.
Kelley then fled the scene in an SUV, but was chased down by Willeford and another Good Samaritan named Johnnie Langendorff, driving his truck in hot pursuit.
Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Freeman Martin said at a news conference on Sunday that, as the men chased Kelley out of town, the suspect called his father.
Kelley told him “that he had been shot and that he didn’t think he was going to make it,” Martin said. “Subsequently, he shot himself.”
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His car drove off the road and crashed, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Pastor Mike Clements, from a nearby sister Baptist church, told Fox News from the scene of shooting he was doing his best to simply “be there” for the victims’ families and the community.
“I wanted to ask your listeners, if they would all over the country, to pray for us,” Clements said. “To pray for these families, who are in [the midst of] such a devastating loss, because the Bible says that God, is the God of all comfort.”
He also stated that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott set a great example in trusting God in difficult times when speaking to the townspeople Sunday night.
“Our governor came into the room where all the families were there, and he sat there he challenged our resolve to trust in God,” Clements said. “And he used his own experience as a paraplegic. He said he could have never gotten through it without trusting in God Almighty.”
At a press conference on Monday, Abbott recounted that the only thing the people at that meeting wanted to speak about was prayers to God.
“You could feel the weight of the room as I began to speak. But we talked about what they wanted to hear the most,” he said. “The only thing they wanted to talk about was prayer to God, connecting with God, looking to God for healing and for grace.”
“You could tell that this was a community that was coming together.” https://www.westernjournalism.com/texas-gunman-preached-atheism/
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I am sure his left leaning tenancies probably polluted him much more than atheism.
Does it really matter which side if either radicalized this evidently mentally ill person to commit mass murder ? Considering both sides have their nut wing radicals out there promoting their agendas ?
Personally I shy away from radicals of all kinds, why give credence to nut jobs ?
we have a thread around here just like that.
Compared to how all the Christians tell Atheists and Muslims how evil they are?? Who is responsible for more deaths (in modern times) Atheists or Christians??
The man wasn't anything, but a lost soul who let his hate overwhelm him to the point that he went to his mother-in-law's Church to kill hoping that she would be part of it. The irony is....she is still alive. His anger was intense and It appears it began at an early age.