Murder of Pastor by Extremist

Why did a Zionist extremist crucify and torture

a Christian pastor in his own home in Arizona?

In the early hours of April 28,

2025, Adam Christopher Schiff entered the

New River residence of 76-year-old Pastor

Bill Shunaman. Bill had led the New River Bible Chapel

for 25 years. Schiff broke into his

home, overpowered him, and then killed him.

Unfortunately, he was just getting started.

Next, he used a power drill to pin the pastor's

hands to the wall in a cruciform position.

He then placed a crown of thorns fashioned from

local desert plants on the dead man's head.

Schiff later confessed in recorded interviews from jail.

He said the killing was the first act of what he called

Operation First Commandment. He claimed that

Christian pastors violated the first commandment by

teaching that Jesus is God. He repeatedly

stated that only Yahweh is God. A large Hebrew tattoo

of what he said was the divine ran across his neck.

He described a list of 14 Christian leaders

across 10 states he intended to kill in the

same manner. After leaving New River, he drove towards

Sedona with the stated goal of murdering two more

priests. He told the interviewers that he felt no

remorse and that he would have continued his mission if he

were free. Prosecutors charged him with murder and

related felonies and were seeking the death penalty.

Schiff, at times representing himself, said he

also wanted the death penalty. The official record

consists of his own confessions, the physical evidence

at the scene of the crime, and the interrupted journey to the next

targets, which by his own accounts, were other

pastors in the area. What was it about his religious

ideology that made him feel that he was required to carry

out these acts of brutality against Christian targets?

Adam Schiff was later interviewed by the press.

Do you think God was going to forgive your sins?

Absolutely, He'll forgive my sins. He forgives, He's a forgiving God.

He's a loving God.

How do you justify that? I mean, if you're killing somebody,

or multiple people,

attempted-

Okay, but-

How does that work?

It's a commandment to, to, to, to rid Israel of

evil. There's 13 tribes of Israel, so what I wanted to do was

execute and crucify 13 priests and put

one of the tribes of Israel in each of their right ears, which I did

with this priest. I put the tribe of Benjamin.

In the end, Bill was killed and crucified for

his belief in Jesus Christ.

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