God and guns: the strict religious upbringing of the Wieambilla shooters
by Ben Smee and Nino Bucci from on (#66V67)
Self-described free evangelical' Ronald Train, who created his own church based on literal reading of scripture, says sons lost their way' before Queensland shooting
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People who knew Ronald Train during his days living in Toowoomba joked that no church would accept him, so he had to make his own".
Train believed - and would later write in a book - that Freemasons give their allegiance to Lucifer" and were a cancer". The constitution of his Christian Independent Fellowship (started after his physical church in Toowoomba closed and he moved interstate) says appointing women to leadership positions will never be entertained".
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