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A teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Ryan Schallenberger, 18, is cooperating with the bomb plot investigation, police say.
Prosecutors argued in a federal courtroom that the statements are an indication that 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger needs a psychological evaluation.
The straight-A Chesterfield High School senior was arrested April 19 and faces several state and federal charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. That charge carries a possible life sentence if he is convicted.
He got straight A’s. Helluva guidance counselor.
Please don’t publish these stories until you have enough facts to complete the picture.
I’m sure most want to know “HOW” he was going to kill Jesus.
Half a story is no story at all.
Its amazing how content he looks sitting there
Like he accomplished something major in life
Then again guess he is a celebrity – a legend in his own mind
Then again not unlike Hamas or at an Amway seminar
Well I guess that is real estate in the afterlife
You can appeal it to St. Peter at the pearly gates
Sounds like he was expecting a sort of Second Life
I think the kid has a shitty defense lawyer. He’s OPPOSING a psych evaluation? That seems to be his only hope for avoiding life in the Big House.
And Bobbo, quit picking nits. Nobody cares “how he was going to kill Jesus”. The kid’s obviously a whack job. Besides, Jesus has already risen from the dead. You can’t just “kill” somebody like that.
I really don’t think bobbo’s question was especially serious. You could only think so – if you thought there was a chance this disturbed kid could carry through his desire.
Like all xhristians, he doesn’t stand a chance of that.
#1 Write him a letter posing as an admiring 10 year old boy name Billy.
#2 Haha
#5 Maybe he PO’ed his lawyer & parents?
For sure, there must be heavy bets going on in the federal prisons about where he’s going to go.
Also, he’s been bought ahead of time, will surely be an unwilling member of the Slippery Soap Sister Hood.
It would be a worthy goal, if there were such a character to kill. Since there isn’t, he’s as delusional as any other believer. Actually, in this case, he is probably legitimately insane in a legal sense and needs serious psychiatric diagnosis and help.
>>Since there isn’t, he’s as delusional as
>>any other believer.
Ah, Scottie. You just KNOW you’re going to buuuurrrrnnnnn in a laaaaaaake of fiiiiiiiire. Right?
Jesus lives in the minds of millions the world over. What we have here is a straight-A dumb ass, full of himself and unable to discern fantasy from reality. You can teach a dumb ass how to get A’s, but you can’t make him not be a dumb ass.
You cannot kill that which does not exist.
Hey mustard, if your so called god is so powerful and omniscient then why does he need your defense. Can he not handle it?
Julie, my God doesn’t “need” my defense. I just offer it. And if you don’t like that, you can go fuck yourself up the ass with a rubber chicken.
I don’t try to convert you to Christianity, and I don’t belittle your deeply-held belief system (other than pointing out the self-evident fact that fundamentalist Atheists are every bit the True Believers that fundamentalist Christians are, which some atheists take as an insult).
In any case, the kid is either a fruitcake, or he’s acting like a fruitcake for a “mental disease or defect” defense. A psych evaluation should clear that up.
You can’t kill Jesus. He’ll just come back three days later. 🙂
Whoa Mustard! That wasn’t very xtian like.
Atheist are “True Believers”? What does an atheist believe based only on faith?
>>Whoa Mustard! That wasn’t very xtian like.
Sure it was. I did it, I’m a Christian, so by definition, it’s Christian-like. If that doesn’t fit with your pre-conceived notions of Christianity, TFB. You ought to get out more. In the alternative, go fuck yourself up the ass with a rubber chicken.
>>Atheist are “True Believers”? What does
>>an atheist believe based only on faith?
That “God does not exist”. I’m not getting bogged down in this ridiculous flame war again. Too much time has been spent on this already. If you want some background, check the archives.
Maybe both he and Jesus were sickos.
#9 , #15 – Musty Old One,
>>Atheist are “True Believers”? What does
>>an atheist believe based only on faith?
That “God does not exist”.
Sure, make the statement then say that you won’t get involved in the flame war. Are you the most passive aggressive individual on the planet?
Again, it’s not faith. It’s merely an assertion that something for which there is no evidence is considered false until some evidence is found.
Do you believe in elves? Or, do you take it on faith that they do not exist?
Do you believe in fire breathing dragons? Or, do you take it on faith that they do not exist?
For an atheist, god is just like the rest, a false hypothesis with zero supporting evidence. Were some evidence of god to come into existence, atheists would reconsider.
Answer to this problem:
Get him 15 years in Prison.
Next topic.
>>Musty Old One
>>Do you believe…
>>Do you blieive…
>>Do you believe…
Ah, Scottie.
You and I will never agree on this. Do you believe there’s life elsewhere in the universe? Some do, some don’t, some don’t know. Just like with religion. I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe, and the fence-sitters believe nothing. So what’s the bfd?
The pearly gates like totally have metal detectors on them now. Now way in hell…errrmmm…heck is he getting a gun or anything into heaven.
>>However, gun related deaths, and death in
>>general, would be less if people didn’t
>>have guns.
Well, duh. There would be fewer stabbings if people didn’t have knives. There would be fewer baseball-bat beatings if people didn’t have baseball bats.
But that assumes removal of ALL guns (or knives or baseball bats). Until somebody figures out how to make that happen, (to paraphrase the NRA) you’re pretty much fucked. The violent felons will KNOW you don’t have a gun, but they do. Not a situation I’d want to be in. I don’t carry a gun, but I might. Better to let the would-be criminal wonder.
It’s about EVIDENCE, mustard.
You have none.
I can admit I don’t know it all. You can’t.
>>I can admit I don’t know it all.
Then why do you ridicule people who have a spiritual leaning? Why don’t you just live and let fucking live, instead of trash-talking my God?
#19 – MM,
The difference between the two is that there is evidence that there is life in the universe. We may not know exactly to what locations it is limited. On that the jury is completely out. We can check Europa, for example.
Regarding god, there is no evidence of him/her anywhere, so no reason to be agnostic.
>>there is evidence that there is life in
>>the universe.
What might that be, Scottie? Did you forget to put your tinfoil hat on today? Objective, scientifically verifiable evidence?! I’ve never read of any evidence that there IS life elsewhere in the universe. I’ve read plenty of stuff saying “we can’t conclusively disprove that conditions on XXX (like Europa) could possibly support life”, but evidence? Link me to it, man!! I’m eager to learn!
As to the existence of a higher power, well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. It could be that billions of people have believed since the time we stopped walking on all fours because virtually all of humanity is retarded, and Atheists are really the only smart ones. Or maybe there’s something to it.
I report, you decide. As long as you don’t try to ram your beliefs down my throat, whatever you believe is fine with me. Is that fair and balanced, or what?
The kid wanted to kill Jesus probably because his parents are RELIGIOUS WHACK-JOBS !!!
#25 – MM,
Sorry if my meaning wasn’t clear. We are life. We are in the universe. Is that scientifically verifiable enough for you? I didn’t say elsewhere. You added that.
#22, julieb, the Mystery manifests itself in various forms. Materialism and logic do indeed kill the popular version of God and the literal interpretation of holy books. However, reading science books does increase the love in one’s heart and the power in one’s mind. Stories do. Living does too but by the time you figure it out you’ll be too old to use it. Stories provide shortcuts so that every child born does not have to reinvent the wheel– or a god for that matter.
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”– Voltaire.
P.S. For a good modern story exemplifying a necessity for God (or a Wilson), watch the Tom Hanks movie, “Castaway”.
#28, “…does not…”
🙂
>>I didn’t say elsewhere. You added that.
Naw, I didn’t. To wit: In post #19 I asked “Do you believe there’s life elsewhere in the universe? Some do, some don’t, some don’t know. Just like with religion. ”
In your replies, I guess you forgot the original question, and reduced it to “is there life anywhere?”.
>>“If there were no God, it would have been
>>necessary to invent him.”– Voltaire.
Note Voltaire’s use of the subjunctive mood. Similar to “If I Were a Rich Man” in Fiddler on the Roof. “Contrary to fact”, as the grammarians say.