There is a serious anti-Christian vibe around here

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247. We don't know about Dear, but there have been plenty of clearly extremist Christian

attacks on women's health clinics like PP, and Colorado Springs is certainly Ground Zero for RW Christian fundamentalism, which is why such attacks lead people to rage against RW Christian extremism.

I would guess that someone, like Dear, who is obviously unstable, could easily be influenced by impassioned RW fundamentalist rhetoric, even if he is not much of a believer. He was steeped in anti-Obama RW rhetoric, and the same sources that provide such anti-Obama rhetoric also provide fundamentalist religious rhetoric against abortion and against other persons and activities that the RW hates.

His "no more baby parts" comment to the police after being taken into custody suggests that he was listening to those sources and being provoked to violence by them.

Also, there is this image of a makeshift cross of twigs on his shack in the woods in North Carolina:



That suggests that at some level and to some degree he did think of himself as a Christian.