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rug

(82,333 posts)
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 08:26 PM Apr 2014

Atheist calls for godless attorney after butter-knife attack on roomie mistaken for Jesus

Gustav Potthoff: "I'm allowed to be with someone of my own kind."

By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel
5:59 p.m. EDT, April 8, 2014

Gustav Potthoff demanded a godless attorney.

After all, the Pine Hills-area man denies the existence of God and — as he told a judge Thursday after allegedly attacking his roommate with a butter knife because he thought the man was Jesus — he deserves a like-minded legal representative.

But Potthoff is also penniless. So the judge told him he better pony up if he wanted his own atheist attorney. Otherwise, he gets a public defender.

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The judge told Potthoff — after the suspect also rejected the idea of an agnostic attorney — that the request would likely be impossible to fill unless the indigent man paid for his own attorney.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-atheist-attack-godless-lawyer-20140408,0,3994128.story

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Atheist calls for godless attorney after butter-knife attack on roomie mistaken for Jesus (Original Post) rug Apr 2014 OP
thats Niceguy1 Apr 2014 #1
Damn ... those atheists are CRAZEEE! Trajan Apr 2014 #2
"It's a sacrilegious thing." LiberalAndProud Apr 2014 #3
No doubt someone will be along shortly to vomit google-proofs that he is mentally ill struggle4progress Apr 2014 #4
No shit! I think he got the idea from the story of Noah! struggle4progress Apr 2014 #5
What does this have to do with the story of Noah? struggle4progress Apr 2014 #19
It's obvious. You ought to stop drinking so much struggle4progress Apr 2014 #20
Well, maybe he is mentally-ill struggle4progress Apr 2014 #6
Enabler! Apologist! If people didn't believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, struggle4progress Apr 2014 #7
No kidding! Without the Nazi Pope and his armies of exorcists, struggle4progress Apr 2014 #8
Haven't you been able to find anything with your google-fu yet? struggle4progress Apr 2014 #11
Do you always argue with yourself? struggle4progress Apr 2014 #13
I'm not arguing struggle4progress Apr 2014 #14
Yes, you are struggle4progress Apr 2014 #15
No, I'm not struggle4progress Apr 2014 #16
Yes, I am struggle4progress Apr 2014 #22
No, you're not struggle4progress Apr 2014 #23
Ha! This is like shootin fuckin fish in a barrel! struggle4progress Apr 2014 #24
It's perfectly normal to talk to yourself you know struggle4progress Apr 2014 #26
See? You can attack people with a butterknife! struggle4progress Apr 2014 #9
Fortunately, Florida has a good stand-your-ground law struggle4progress Apr 2014 #10
This doesn't have anything to do with guns struggle4progress Apr 2014 #17
Can you prove god didn't tell him to do that? I can't! struggle4progress Apr 2014 #18
It's, like, that Zen saying, man: struggle4progress Apr 2014 #12
I think that's already been done struggle4progress Apr 2014 #21
Shh! I think I see Jesus crouching behind the divan struggle4progress Apr 2014 #27
Post removed Post removed Apr 2014 #30
I hate to interrupt someone who's on a roll, okasha Apr 2014 #25
+ struggle4progress Apr 2014 #28
^Combo-breaker! (nt) LostOne4Ever Apr 2014 #29
4: could this long dialogue with yourself be considered talking to yourself? Brettongarcia Apr 2014 #31
He thought he was Jesus. rug Apr 2014 #32
Was this is in Florida? Florida doesn't count. Brettongarcia Apr 2014 #33
Lol, I'll give you that. rug Apr 2014 #34
I forgot where we claimed that all thiests are psychotic or all psychosis is caused by religious Warren Stupidity Apr 2014 #35
Shhh! Starboard Tack Apr 2014 #36
Where'd he get the idea to attack him? rug Apr 2014 #37
Perhaps from "Finding the jawbone of an ass, Sampson slew therewith a thousand men" struggle4progress Apr 2014 #38
I'm sure an ass was involved somewhere. rug Apr 2014 #39

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
3. "It's a sacrilegious thing."
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 08:48 PM
Apr 2014

That's pretty funny.

This guy's unbelief is different from mine. He may not like God, but I think he probably believes in one.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
4. No doubt someone will be along shortly to vomit google-proofs that he is mentally ill
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 09:32 PM
Apr 2014

and that religion has nothing to do with this!

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
7. Enabler! Apologist! If people didn't believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden,
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 09:34 PM
Apr 2014

this would never have happened!

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
17. This doesn't have anything to do with guns
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 09:43 PM
Apr 2014

It's about some crazy impoverished dude attacking his room-mate for no reason

Response to struggle4progress (Reply #27)

okasha

(11,573 posts)
25. I hate to interrupt someone who's on a roll,
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 09:48 PM
Apr 2014

but the guy doesn't need an atheist attorney to tell him to take his meds and cop a plea. At need, even a layperson can do it.

Brettongarcia

(2,262 posts)
31. 4: could this long dialogue with yourself be considered talking to yourself?
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 10:10 AM
Apr 2014

In any case, note that this atheist 1) threw something as his roommate; no record yet, of actual contact. Then he 2) "came after" said roommate, with a mere breadknife. 3) But no actual injury is recorded.

This is somewhat different from the cases that we examined earlier, of religious "filicide": religious folks actually killing their own children.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
35. I forgot where we claimed that all thiests are psychotic or all psychosis is caused by religious
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 05:13 PM
Apr 2014

delusions or that there are no psychotic atheists.

However I'm pretty sure that this fellow did not get the idea of Jesus in his head from atheist indoctrination.

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