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Thursday September 10, 2009

Matthew Murray:

The Nightmare of Christianity

The Nation has posted an excerpt from the book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party [Kindle version available], by Max Blumenthal.

The excerpt tells the back story of Matthew Murray, the young man who in December 2007 killed himself after fatally shooting several people at a YWAM training center and at the New Life Church, both in Colorado.
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Friday March 28, 2008

Colorado church shooter obsessed with porn

The extent of Matthew Murray’s pornography obsession sheds light on his behavior before his killing rampage, the head of Youth With A Mission-Denver said Thursday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church killer waited at New Life, made phone calls before shootings

While he waited, the 24-year-old talked on his cell phone with an acquaintance from his days at Youth With a Mission in Arvada, the New Life-related missionary program he had been asked to leave after several episodes involving strange behavior in 2002.
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Thursday February 28, 2008

Matthew Murray:

Family of Colorado church shooter says he had ADHD, felt rejected

Matthew Murray however gave no indication he was about to explode in violence, they said in an interview to be broadcast today and Friday on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program.
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Thursday December 20, 2007

Matthew Murray:

Shooter had bomb parts; Ted Haggard photo, ammunition also among items

Matthew Murray killed two people at Youth With A Mission in Arvada then killed two teenage sisters outside New Life Church after Sunday services. He was shot several times by a volunteer church security guard before killing himself.
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Wednesday December 12, 2007

Bill Gothard • Matthew Murray:

Shooter’s lessons strict, rule-driven

The curriculum Murray decried in his postings was developed by evangelist Bill Gothard as part of The Institute in Basic Life Principles — theologically a cult of Christianity.
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Matthew Murray:

Gunman killed himself after being shot

Volunteer security guard shot Matthew Murray, who had killed four, several times before he committed suicide, autopsy shows.
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Tuesday December 11, 2007

Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Shooter Matthew Murray posted reworked writing of Columbine killer between attacks

A ranting screed was left on a website between shootings Sunday by the man who police say killed four people at two religious organizations.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman may have warned of violence in online postings

Authorities believe the man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center posted an anti-Christian diatribe online that closely repeated a rant by one of the Columbine killers, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman scared co-workers 5 years ago, heard voices one says

Matthew Murray was kicked out of a missionary training program five years ago for strange behavior, and talked about hearing voices, according to a man who served at the center with him.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Church gunman “hated Christians”

A law-enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, told The Associated Press that 24-year-old Matthew Murray of Arapahoe County was the lone gunman who killed four people and wounded five others on two church campuses before he was killed.
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Matthew Murray • New Life Church • YWAM:

Colorado gunman sent hate mail to YWAM missionary center

A 24-year-old man embittered after being kicked out of missionary school three years ago carried out Sunday’s deadly rampages in Colorado Springs and Arvada, police said today.
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