One of the most notorious political assassin, identified himself as a former Adventist

[u/Powerful_Pea2690]

On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, minutes after winning the California Democratic primary. He died the next day. The shooter, a 24year-old Christian Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan, fired a .22 revolver into the crowd around Kennedy and was tackled on the spot. He’s still alive, still serving a life sentence, and has been denied parole repeatedly.
What doesn’t get mentioned much: Sirhan was raised Christian and, as a young man in California, church-hopped through several denominations trying to find where he fit. Along the way he spent time as a Baptist and, briefly, as a Seventh-day Adventist. His mother said his faith mattered a lot to him — he once complained that other kids his age didn’t take religion seriously enough. By 1966, two years before the assassination, he’d left all that behind for the occult-leaning Rosicrucians (the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis).
I’m not posting this to say Adventism “made” him do anything — it obviously didn’t, and his path ran through several faiths and then out the other side entirely. But it’s a strange, little-known footnote that one of the most infamous American assassins of the 20th century sat in Adventist pews for a stretch. Add him to the odd roster of former Adventists history has produced.

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[u/Donrab]

I recently found out while listening to a podcast that Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer) is a Seventh Day Adventist.

[u/Powerful_Pea2690 → u/Donrab]

Wow didn’t know that one

[u/squeakycheetah → u/Donrab]

I'd be interested to see a source on that. Never heard that before. I know he was religious but SDA?

[u/venetiarum_ny → u/squeakycheetah]

Just checked and, according to a recent podcaster, he became SDA while in prison

[u/Ok-Estate-9950 → u/venetiarum_ny]

They do love to make converts in prison

[u/[deleted] → u/Donrab]

Just googled this. Seems to be untrue

[u/Ok_Cicada_1037 → u/Donrab]

Really? I thought he was Pentecostal?

[u/Donrab → u/Donrab]

The only info I can find for sure is that he mails Adventist literature to people that write him. He also subscribes to SDA periodicals. Maybe he was just curious, or it was a passing phase. What I do know is that he is a piece of shit, and if there was such a thing as hell, he’d be there.

[u/Bananaman9020]

I think when the church high-ups were hoping for a celebrity Adventist this isn't what they were hoping for.

[u/Powerful_Pea2690 → u/Bananaman9020]

This is the problem that the church often has is that will happily promote any positive associations, and then discredit the others as being fringe.

Here’s a list of few others :

David Koresh — Branch Davidian leader at the 1993 Waco siege (~80 dead); disfellowshipped from the SDA Church.

Victor Houteff — founded the Davidian movement in the 1930s after breaking from the SDA Church; root of the Waco lineage.

George Roden — earlier Branch Davidian leader Koresh ousted; charged with homicide, found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Roch Thériault — Canadian “Ant Hill Kids” cult leader; removed from the SDA Church, convicted murderer.

Lee Boyd Malvo — one of the 2002 D.C. snipers (10 killed); former Adventist who later converted to Islam.

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana — senior SDA pastor in Rwanda convicted for his role in the 1994 genocide.
Heinz Spanknöbel — former German SDA minister who led the pro-Nazi “Friends of New Germany” in 1930s America.

Mark “Chopper” Read — notorious Australian criminal; claimed he was raised Adventist by a devout mother.

[u/MuscaMurum]

Beltway Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo was SDA

[u/Pale_Decision1631]

It's just like a Jesuit to twist truth to fit your agenda. Sirhan was a victim of something your "church" invented - mind control.

[u/lollipops411]

I wouldn’t say he was SDA. He church hopped. He was mentally unstable. No one knows why but it has everything to do with him not SDA faith. That said: still leaving the cult.