A transgender gunman who carried out a deadly attack at a Catholic school in Minneapolis left behind a manifesto filled with antisemitic hate, Holocaust references and messages directly targeting Jesus Christ — evidence of a spiritual darkness fueling such violence.
Authorities identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who killed two children and wounded 17 others before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The FBI has classified the massacre as domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics.
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In journals translated from Cyrillic script, Westman wrote that if he carried out a racially motivated attack, it would be “against filthy Zionist Jews.” He scrawled “6 million wasn’t enough” on ammunition magazines, while another bore the words “Destroy HIAS,” naming a Jewish refugee aid group. A firearm was marked with “Israel must fall, release the files.”
Video later recovered from a deleted YouTube channel showed a diagram of a church stabbed with a knife and a cardboard target with an image of Christ taped to the head. One magazine was emblazoned with the phrase, “Where is your God?”
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For Pastor Greg Locke, the demons behind the shooter’s writings reflect a spirit that has fueled antisemitism for generations.
“Although it is politically driven and media-driven, I think it’s a deep spiritual issue,” Locke said in a recent podcast addressing antisemitism. “I would say it’s very demonic because it’s the same spirit that’s been around since, you know, Pharaoh trying to eradicate the Jews, Haman trying to eradicate the Jews, Nebuchadnezzar trying to eradicate the Jews, Hitler. It’s the same spirit. It’s just upon a different person in a different generation.”
He added that the deception at the heart of antisemitism contradicts the witness of Scripture. “Oh, everything wrong in the world is a Jew’s fault. It’s Israel’s fault. And so people just say that with no facts whatsoever. And it makes them sleep better at night. They feel better and say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what the world believes.’ No, it’s not what the world believes. And it’s certainly not what the God of the Bible believes because 202 times He’s called the God of Israel. He’s never called the God of America. He’s never called the God of Africa, the God of Iran. He’s called the God of Israel. And so to take that away from the Jewish people, I think is a heresy.”
Westman, who had legally changed his name in 2020, wrote that he had been suicidal but wanted to take others with him. “I don’t want to [do] it to spread a message. I do it to please myself. I do it because I am sick,” he wrote.
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The targeting of both Jewish people, Jesus Himself and those who follow Him in this attack illustrates that antisemitism and hatred of Christ are not simply social or political issues but manifestations of spiritual warfare. These acts are demonic at their core because they oppose God’s truth, His covenant people and His Son.
As Scripture warns, the last days will be marked by lawlessness and deception. Attacks like the one in Minneapolis reveal a growing hostility toward the things of God, but they also remind us that Jesus’ return is drawing near.
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
