Mathew Murray, the teenager who shot and killed several people at two Protestant churches in Denver this week, was recently active in an occult organization called Ad Astra Oasis.
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Buried in the text of a news article in the December 12, 2007 [i]Denver Post [/i]is a brief statement confirming that Murray had begun to see himself as a person involved in a war against demons, and against an evil "Christian Empire" after attending meetings at the occult [i]Ad Astra Oasis[/i] society in Denver.
Murray is the son of a Denver neurologist, and was raised in a strict Protestant Fundamentalist church. I mention this reference here because I haven't seen any other mention of Murray's involvement with the occult in the secular media coverage of the murders this week. I also saw a psychologist on CNN television this week who attributed the murders to Murray's strict Protestant upbringing. Here is the link to the article: