Raw eggs, 'Scripture-backed fitness' and a Porsche: The online world of the man accused of burning Mississippi's largest

[RandySF]

Stephen Spencer Pittman, the 19-year-old suspected of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue, uses his social media accounts to post about baseball, his friends, his commitment to physical fitness and his devotion to Christianity.

That was until 12:52 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, when he posted an antisemitic video on Instagram.

“A Jew in my backyard, I can’t believe my Jew crow didn’t work,” an animated Disney-Princess-esque character says to a short yellow figure with a long nose. “You’re getting baptized right now.”

About two hours later, Pittman is alleged to have driven to a synagogue, the Beth Israel Congregation in northeast Jackson, where federal authorities say he used an ax to break through one of the windows. Once inside, Pittman is alleged to have doused the lobby with gasoline and set it on fire with a torch.



https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/raw-eggs-scripture-backed-fitness-and-porsche-online-world-man-accused-burning-mississippis

[fujiyamasan]

1. Good to see the piece of shit suffered some burns on his hands

Too bad it wasn’t worse.

Insane to see that there was a prior bombing in 1967. But not surprising. It is Mississippi Goddamn!

[Haggard Celine]

2. He threw his life away at 19!

If a young Muslim had done this, people would want to know where he was radicalized. Seems like his behavior changed for the worse recently. I'm curious to know what sent him over the edge.

[skypilot]

8. What sent him over the edge

My take is that it was a combination of antisemitism, toxic Andrew Tate-inspired bullshit, and a big dollop of Prosperity Gospel bullshit as well.

[Haggard Celine]

11. A perfect storm of crazy.

There's a lot of mind poison out there. People think they're being imparted some special knowledge that the rest of us sheep are being denied, knowledge that they don't really have to work for. Looks like this guy found the underbelly of the Internet and decided to crawl inside and soak in it.

[DFW]

3. He "targeted the Synagogue for its Jewish ties???"

Ummm, I wonder if anyone will dare to tell him about the “ties” of all other synagogues around the world?

(Hint: they ain’t Presbyterian….)

[Ray Bruns]

4. Well, they're not racist POS because they're brain surgeons

[70sEraVet]

5. Some really weird White Christian ideology is described in that article.

Christian Identity is a white supremacist interpretation of Christianity that teaches that Adam and Eve were white, that non-whites were created on the Sixth Day with the animals and have no souls, and that Jews are the offspring of Satan. Christian Identity teaches that white people are the true Israelites and that Jews are impostors.

(same article)

Wonder how many ICE agents believe that crap? It would explain a lot.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. I expect a number of them do.

The rest just love carnage and destruction.

[Ping Tung]

7. Does he know that Jesus wasn't a Christian. He was a very devout Jew.

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" Mark Twain

[dalton99a]

9. The Bible says always start with a warm-up and end with a cool-down, and hydrate.

[Swede]

10. This numbskull ruined his life.

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