Colorado Springs gunman wrote rambling blog 2 days before shooting spree

[Historic NY]

Source: Gazette

The man who neighbors say shot three people in Colorado Springs on Saturday made a rambling post to a brand-new blog two days earlier that railed against his father, religion and government.

Noah Harpham, whose blog begins with the address where Saturday's shooting started, rages against a California mega-church pastor.

"Welcome to mind control," Harpham wrote.

In Colorado Springs, Harpham, 33, lived modestly in a series of apartments and worked in insurance.

On the online dating site eHarmony.com, Harpham described himself as a recovering alcoholic and a Christian.

The 6-foot-5 Harpham called himself "a big friendly giant."

Read more: http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-gunman-wrote-rambling-blog-two-days-before-shooting-spree/article/1562379

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. He wasn't very friendly.

Sounds like another mentally ill guy. They seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

[Tikki]

6. Apparently the alcohol addiction was taken care of but the depression and suicidal tendecies were...

given over to a religion. The shooter seemed to be reaching out to family to get help with
those conditions and not receiving realistic help.

Sad, sad, sad......

Tikki

[shenmue]

2. ...

[LeftyMom]

3. The church he was talking about IS absolutely batshit, fwiw.

http://www.redding.com/news/faith-healing-or-foul-play-on-cliff

Rather than call police when their drinking partner fell — or was pushed — off a nearly 200-foot cliff, two students at a Redding Bible school tried first to reach the severely wounded man and pray him back to life, a lawsuit alleges.

In a lawsuit filed this month in Shasta County Superior Court exactly two years to the day after he was pulled by search-and-rescue crews from the banks of the Sacramento River, Jason Michael Carlsen alleges that when Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry students Sarah Elisabeth Koivumaki and Zachary Gudelunas couldn't reach him to heal him with their prayers, they spent hours debating whether to call the police.

Bethel's members purport to have the ability to heal people through prayer and bring the dead back to life.

They also believe that gold dust and angel feathers rain down during their church services, among other really weird shit. They got kicked out of the Assemblies of God for putting too much emphasis on faith healing and miracles and other goofy magic holy spirit kind of stuff, which is amazing because that kind of thing is what the AoG is all about.

Oh, and they practice "grave sucking" which is so weird that I barely know how to explain it so here's an article (I couldn't find one from a religiously neutral source, but you can look at Bethel's enormous internet presence to verify that this is a real practice.) http://youthapologeticstraining.com/grave-sucking/

[trusty elf]

4. This comment about "grave sucking" was funny.

" If you suck too much do you start coffin?"

[valerief]

8. Of corpse you do. nt

[7962]

5. Gold dust falling? That makes a church service quite lucrative!!

I'd spread sheets of paper around where i was sitting!!

[Blue_Tires]

9. What the fucking hell???

[24601]

7. But at least the police didn't violate his rights by reading his public posts without a warrant.

Tran would have been really bad.

[brentspeak]

10. Documented struggles with substance abuse

and yet he was legally allowed to own firearms.

Thank the NRA and its puppet politicians.