Demons haunted Colorado gunman’s world

Pastor: A battle ensued
As a charismatic pastor, Boyd also believes a supernatural battle between good and evil is at work.

“If you read the Bible, there are angelic and demonic forces at work on the earth today,” he said. “But I also think that many times, those evil forces take advantage of people who already have existing conditions.”

Church officials say Murray’s name appeared on a visitors’ card several years ago, and online postings thought to be made by Murray described disgraced founding pastor Ted Haggard as his mother’s favorite pastor.

Some of Murray’s vitriol was published on a site catering to ex-Pentecostals.

Joe Istre, who runs the site and is president of the Association of Former Pentecostals, said that while people who leave any faith traditions hold grudges, leaving Pentecostalism carries unique challenges. That includes feeling isolated from family and former friends, and emotional scars from leaving churches with dictatorial pastors and little financial transparency.

”Not that it was a necessary ingredient, but his Pentecostalism was part of the recipe” of the shootings, Istre said.

In an Internet post about four hours before the shootings at New Life, a poster going by “DyingChild_65” said he searched for spiritual answers.

All the poster found in Christianity was “hate, abuse (sexual, physical, psychological, and emotional), hypocrisy, and lies.”

The rant ended:“I’m going out to make a stand for the weak and the defenseless this is for all those young people still caught in the Nightmare of Christianity for all those people who’ve been abused and mistreated and taken advantage of by this evil sick religion Christian America this is YOUR Columbine.”

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