ASPartOfMe wrote:
No evidence he is an evangelical.
He is religious if not evangelical. As mentioned most very religious people are not mass killers and evengelicals to save people not kill them.
Atlanta shooting suspect Robert Long: What to knowQuote:
As details emerge following the mass shooting that took place in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, in which eight people were killed, former classmates of the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, are expressing shock at the news.
"He was a totally different person in school," Jonathan Desire, who graduated with Long, told Fox News on Wednesday. "Quiet, calm, and collected."
Classmates said they were shocked at the news.
Desire also described Long as religious and added that he "definitely wouldn’t have expected this behavior from him."
"Definitely shocking," he said.
Taylor Leigh-Carlucci, a female classmate, said that while she never knew Long "super personally," she remembers seeing him in school and described him as "quiet and really to himself."
After talking to friends, no one would have expected this from him. People [called] him caring, and he was involved in the FCA group at school."
Leigh-Carlucci shared photos of Long from her yearbooks, including one that shows a quote from him saying he felt like God was calling him to be a "leader in the church."
Another male classmate who spoke on the condition of anonymity said he didn't know Long "too well," but based on the photo released by police circulating in the news said "he looks completely different" than he did in high school.
"From what I can remember he was a really smart kid," he said. "He was really quiet and kept to himself the majority of the time. I didn’t run with the same crowd as him and didn’t know him personally, but he didn’t have a ton of friends and really kept to himself."
Long was a member of Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton, Georgia, and social media posts obtained by The Daily Beast and Heavy.com show him speaking about his baptism.
"As many of you may remember, when I was eight years old, I thought I was becoming a Christian and got baptized during that time. And I remember a lot of the reason for that is a lot of my friends in my Sunday school class were doing that," Long appeared to say in the video, according to The Daily Beast. "And after that time, there wasn't any fruit from the root that is our salvation.“
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