Of course, all of this discussion is meaningless if the guy was knowingly CLAIMING to be Christian whilst not actually BELIEVING.
How are we to know that his apparent psychotic behaviour wasn't the result of his inability to reconcile his outward public appearance with this (posited) internal atheism?
Speculation is meaningless without knowing his state of mind, which we can't.
All we can do is look at his actions and say "these do not match what I understand the bible to mean given how I was taught about it".
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