Is God’s Narcissism Responsible For Mass Shootings?

His blessings and curses on the ancient Israelites suggest some psychological issues. And he’s a terrible model of behavior for His followers.

Shoshana Kaufman
9 min readFeb 15, 2023

Do the perpetrators of mass shootings have some kind of God complex? I’m starting to wonder.

As I write this, it is two days after yet another mass shooting in the United States. This one was at Michigan State University, so it was close to my heart as I live in Michigan. At this moment, there have been 63 mass shootings in the United States this year. But the number always increases weekly. By the time you read this, there might have been several more.

On Monday, February 13, 2023, a 42-year-old man walked onto the Michigan State University campus and started shooting in Berkey Hall. He shot a few students and then went on to another building called the Union, where students gather to socialize, and shot a few more. He left the campus and was traced to another location. When police confronted him, he killed himself with the gun he had used on the innocent students. So far, no one knows the motive for his horrific crime and senseless suicide.

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Shoshana Kaufman

Mother, grandmother, teacher, wife, food lover, spiritual searcher.