Trucker-turned-prophet killed two on hog farm and said God made him do it

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BY MARA BOVSUN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, May 14, 2016, 9:00 PM

Michael Ryan dropped out of high school, lost the only job he ever liked, smoked too much weed, and ended up on welfare.

By his mid-30s, there was only one line of work left for him. He became the voice of God.

Ryan set himself up on a defunct 80-acre hog farm near Rulo, Neb., and somehow convinced 21 people that the Almighty was talking directly to them through a sadistic bully, which he was ...

Their arrest led to the first of two raids on the Rulo property, which uncovered a cache of rifles and automatic weapons and 150,000 rounds of ammunition ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/prophet-killed-farm-god-made-article-1.2637050

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1. This doesn't belong here, religion has nothing to do with it, it's mental illness.

Right?

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2. I suspect he was a violence prone gun-nut with a talent for grifting

[cleanhippie]

4. So why post it in the religion group?

[rug]

5. Why do you post half the things you post in here about the mentally ill??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218228558

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7. I don't know what I was thinking: maybe I hoped you'd be happy to see it:

[Major Nikon]

3. Stupid, guns, and religion

Who could have ever guess copious amounts of all three would end badly?

[rug]

6. I can think of two other things to add to stupid to get the same result.