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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 01:35 PM
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25. That's ridiculous
If she hadn't believed in eternal souls and paradise, she might have realized that she was KILLING them. To give people the "out" that this mortal plane is just some kind of unimportant audition is a huge problem.

Yes, depression and other insanity, and economic and social hardship can be a heady cocktail, but if the person beset with these doesn't also swallow some supernatural fantasy, that person might not KILL.

To say there's not much of a religious component in this is self-justifying and just another act of letting religion off the hook. It does some good things, but it provides the motivations and excuses for some AWFUL ones, and this is one of the latter.

Killing--as far as I can tell--is the total destruction of an individual; Christianity gives one an excuse for this, and that's a horrible thing to offer. Those who define religion as "good" tend to deny anything bad that it causes, and that's a form of denial that's abusive to society at large.
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  -'I had to kill' boys, mom tells police ("Better off in heaven") NNN0LHI  Jul-22-05 06:53 AM   #0 
  - Religious insanity is insane no matter where inthe world it occurs (NT)  Tesha   Jul-22-05 06:54 AM   #1 
  - I don't see "religion" involved here  Cerridwen   Jul-22-05 07:05 AM   #2 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-22-05 07:27 AM   #4 
  - Any road, they're still dead.  BiggJawn   Jul-22-05 07:36 AM   #5 
     - You are not alone. I am DU's #2 Anti-Theist. n/t  RebelOne   Jul-22-05 07:56 AM   #9 
     - My point exactly John.  ET Awful   Jul-22-05 07:59 AM   #10 
        - Not an afterthought... an before thought.  progressivebydesign   Jul-22-05 07:35 PM   #37 
           - Exactly. "Heaven" was her escape valve.  Voltaire99   Jul-23-05 01:55 AM   #52 
  - Not necessarily in the sense of the cases  salin   Jul-22-05 07:38 AM   #6 
  - Heaven = Religion in most circles. eom  donco6   Jul-22-05 07:51 AM   #7 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-22-05 09:03 AM   #14 
  - It's been taken care of  cubschicago   Jul-22-05 09:13 AM   #15 
     - Out of a cracker jackers box , of course!  insane_cratic_gal   Jul-22-05 09:27 AM   #16 
     - .  cubschicago   Jul-22-05 09:59 AM   #20 
     - Ok  insane_cratic_gal   Jul-22-05 09:29 AM   #17 
        - .  cubschicago   Jul-22-05 09:53 AM   #18 
  - I think you're right  barb162   Jul-22-05 01:24 PM   #23 
  - That's ridiculous  PurityOfEssence   Jul-22-05 01:35 PM   #25 
  - I don't know that this was "religious insanity."  ET Awful   Jul-22-05 07:09 AM   #3 
  - You said it much better than I did up thread. Thanks. n/t  Cerridwen   Jul-22-05 07:56 AM   #8 
  - Well stated, and thank you. nt  melnjones   Jul-22-05 12:48 PM   #21 
  - This happened to a colleague of mine ten years ago.  megatherium   Jul-22-05 08:26 AM   #11 
  - Oh sure, she's crazy...  ticapnews   Jul-22-05 08:51 AM   #12 
  - Well, the angel was obviously a fraud ...  TahitiNut   Jul-22-05 08:59 AM   #13 
  - You are missing THE POINT of the story --  IdaBriggs   Jul-22-05 09:54 PM   #49 
  - John List also had to kill his famil.y.  pinniped   Jul-22-05 09:57 AM   #19 
  - Who is John List?  Bay Boy   Jul-22-05 08:18 PM   #45 
     - The guy who killed his whole family.  lizzy   Jul-22-05 10:01 PM   #50 
        - I KNEW THAT NAME SOUNDED FAMILIAR!!!  Bay Boy   Jul-23-05 06:20 AM   #53 
  - I knew a woman that did the same thing.  marbuc   Jul-22-05 01:18 PM   #22 
  - Here is another link to the story with video and pictures...  VegasWolf   Jul-22-05 01:30 PM   #24 
  - Oh the tragedy of this  BareNakedLiberal   Jul-22-05 01:36 PM   #26 
  - What are you talking about...  melnjones   Jul-22-05 03:30 PM   #28 
     - She wasn't mentally stable? Who is?  lizzy   Jul-22-05 05:57 PM   #32 
     - Women never get convicted of murder.  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 07:32 PM   #35 
        - Oh please!  lizzy   Jul-22-05 07:36 PM   #38 
           - I don't know about the Laney case  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 08:02 PM   #43 
              - Andrea Yates conviction was not overturned because she was insane  NNN0LHI   Jul-22-05 08:15 PM   #44 
              - Laney killed her children with rocks and said God told her to do  lizzy   Jul-22-05 08:33 PM   #46 
     - "Lots of people believe in heaven without having any religious  PassingFair   Jul-22-05 09:42 PM   #48 
     - I can imagine that she was very mentally unstable  BareNakedLiberal   Jul-23-05 01:03 AM   #51 
  - How sad.  ladeuxiemevoiture   Jul-22-05 02:20 PM   #27 
  - So Tom Cruise...  hallc   Jul-22-05 04:00 PM   #29 
  - Wishing Ma Bush was...  Disturbed   Jul-22-05 05:40 PM   #30 
  - "So Tom Cruise"  Joan of Arc   Jul-22-05 06:26 PM   #33 
  - thank you for telling your story  annabanana   Jul-23-05 06:34 AM   #54 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-22-05 05:50 PM   #31 
  - What a load  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 07:31 PM   #34 
     - Yea, sure...  lizzy   Jul-22-05 07:35 PM   #36 
        - You're right lizzy. It's absolutely true..  progressivebydesign   Jul-22-05 07:37 PM   #39 
        - Facts  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 08:00 PM   #41 
        - Exactly. Marcus Wesson killed 9 kids and got a death penalty.  lizzy   Jul-22-05 08:36 PM   #47 
        - Not only are you proficient with roll eye smilies  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 07:57 PM   #40 
           - Oh, and see post 41. n/t  Pithlet   Jul-22-05 08:00 PM   #42 
  - 'Better off in heaven'  d_b   Jul-23-05 06:40 AM   #55 
 

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