[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

I can understand where he is coming from.
He thinks he's found paradise, he's been greeted in, and he can be a priest again (the note and strawberries). He feels like he has purpose, and he sees this group of people that has proven you don't have to be savages to survive in this world. He thinks that is the norm, and that Rick's group are evil (you can't say they haven't done anything egregious...except that time they slaughtered a bunch of people in side the church...that's not an "Excpet that one time" type of thing you could brush off).

Anyway, I think Gabriel is thinking, "See, these people in Alexandria are good and have made this world work without doing horrible things. Rick's group have all done horrible things and therefore are evil, and now they are trying to spread that evil to this paradise".

I think it's a case of Gabriel still not understanding exactly what this new world is like, and wrongly assuming that Alexandria is the norm, and Rick's group is an extreme outlier, instead of the truth which is the exact opposite.

But he burnt his neck collar thingy. Also, how does this play into him ripping up his bible at the begining of the show?