"God told me to do it"

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-13 03:42am

Remember Andrea Yates? We have another one.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-13 03:48am

Laney, he said, claimed that God ordered her to kill her sons.

The boys' deaths were announced Sunday to more than 200 members of the First Assembly of God Church, where Laney sang in the choir and her brother-in-law, Gary Bell, is the pastor.

Bell told his parishioners that he and his wife, Judy, would stand behind Laney.

``This was a brutal and horrific incident that has changed our lives (and will) for years to come,'' Bell said. ``But we all believe as a family that this wasn't our Dee that did this to her children.''

Then who was it? She admitted it already.
Chalk another one up to Divine Inspiration....

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-05-13 04:14am

Personal Responsibility - 0
Mythological Intervention of eiether God and/or Satan - 2

Reasons I've gone athiest - 1,200,635

I don't get how the husband can be so supportive of her. My wife, woman I love or no , she kills my/our children and I'll be the first one to suggest getting some rope........

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-05-13 04:28am

Yeah, you guys see her picture? She looks really sad and sorry. She's even fucking frowning like a cartoon character.

Kill the bitch.

Be it either divine, demonic, or the more likely fucked-in-the-head reason for doing this, just kill the bitch.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2003-05-13 04:57am

Laney, he said, claimed that God ordered her to kill her sons.

The boys' deaths were announced Sunday to more than 200 members of the First Assembly of God Church, where Laney sang in the choir and her brother-in-law, Gary Bell, is the pastor.

Bell told his parishioners that he and his wife, Judy, would stand behind Laney.

``This was a brutal and horrific incident that has changed our lives (and will) for years to come,'' Bell said. ``But we all believe as a family that this wasn't our Dee that did this to her children.''

Andrea Yates' husband is just the same. When they interviewed him on the news yesterday, he said that he had completely forgiven her, still visits her ever other week, and believes that she only killed their kids because she was ill. How the hell these people can still stand behind these evil bitches is beyond me.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-05-13 05:03am

No one ever said love was totally seperate from idiocy.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-05-13 05:16am

hmm, so why am I not suprised?

remember god also told Chapman to kill John Lennon, and Berkowitz to kill couples for making out in cars....

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-05-13 09:33am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:hmm, so why am I not suprised?

remember god also told Chapman to kill John Lennon, and Berkowitz to kill couples for making out in cars....

And God told a bunch of fanatic Muslims to terrorize America. And God told a mass of peasants smelling like sewers to kill every nonChristian in sight. Of course, it didn't turn out that way

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-05-13 10:04am

Seriously speaking, I think these occurences are argument enough for banning Christianity.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-13 10:38am

That's just depressing.

Though it seems that saying it was the Christian God seems to come up way more often than any other deity in cases like this.

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » 2003-05-13 11:06am

neoolong wrote:That's just depressing.

Though it seems that saying it was the Christian God seems to come up way more often than any other deity in cases like this.

Maybe b/c you live in a Xian dominated nation? If you lived in Indonesia you'd have to wackos claiming the muslem God told them to do x, y, or z....

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » 2003-05-13 11:07am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Seriously speaking, I think these occurences are argument enough for banning Christianity.

seriously speaking, your an idiot.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-05-13 11:11am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Seriously speaking, I think these occurences are argument enough for banning Christianity.

If they did that, they'd just come up with another excuse.

Jar Jar Binks told me to do this. I'm just acting according to His will.

Real link: www. goatse.cx (remove space). DO NOT GO HERE!

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-05-13 11:18am

neoolong wrote:That's just depressing.

Though it seems that saying it was the Christian God seems to come up way more often than any other deity in cases like this.

That's just because we live in a (mostly) Christian nation, so all the news focuses on is those crazies within our society who think that (Insert Deity Here) gave spoke in their heads and told them to commit crimes. Since, as I said, USA is mostly Christian of some stripe, this Deity is always either God or Devil.

In other non-Christian countries, they might blame other Deities. I don't know, I don't live there, but looking at how often mentally disturbed individuals believe the voices they hear are Deities/Demons here in the US, I'd say the chances are high.

So, it's not just the fact it's Christians or the Christian God... it's the fact that the mentally disturbed person needs to believe it's not themselves thinking these things, and falling back on their Belief/Faith in Higher/Lower Powers.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-05-13 11:23am

Drooling Iguana wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Seriously speaking, I think these occurences are argument enough for banning Christianity.
If they did that, they'd just come up with another excuse.

D' OH!! I should have figured that out!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-13 12:50pm

Ancalagon wrote:
neoolong wrote:That's just depressing.

Though it seems that saying it was the Christian God seems to come up way more often than any other deity in cases like this.
Maybe b/c you live in a Xian dominated nation? If you lived in Indonesia you'd have to wackos claiming the muslem God told them to do x, y, or z....

Dominated yes, but it's not that everyone is that way. I can't even remember the last time I heard of a situation in this country blaiming another deity.

Still seems way out of proportion.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-05-13 02:45pm

Fry the bitch.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-05-13 02:52pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Seriously speaking, I think these occurences are argument enough for banning Christianity.
If they did that, they'd just come up with another excuse.

Link not included for purposes of decency. Do not click his link, the goggles will do nothing! Jar Jar Binks told me to do this. I'm just acting according to His will.

Yes. It's all a matter of where you're at in the world. The US is dominated by Christians, thus people will blame the Christian gods. In Iraq, crazy people will yell Allah ackbar! and blame the Muslim god. In Japan, where if one is serious about the gods, you can't really blame them for anything, they'd blame work.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-13 02:54pm

Since God commanded it she should go free[/Boyd]

I hope shes executed and somthing goes wrong that draws it out.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-13 03:47pm

Ancalagon wrote:Maybe b/c you live in a Xian dominated nation? If you lived in Indonesia you'd have to wackos claiming the muslem God told them to do x, y, or z....

Correct. That is why Islam is just as irrational as Christianity. Not a surprise, since it's basically a different variant upon the same mindset.

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » 2003-05-13 04:07pm

neoolong wrote:
Ancalagon wrote:
neoolong wrote:That's just depressing.

Though it seems that saying it was the Christian God seems to come up way more often than any other deity in cases like this.
Maybe b/c you live in a Xian dominated nation? If you lived in Indonesia you'd have to wackos claiming the muslem God told them to do x, y, or z....
Dominated yes, but it's not that everyone is that way. I can't even remember the last time I heard of a situation in this country blaiming another deity.

Still seems way out of proportion.

Not to me...

2 wackos out of over 300 million just isn't that out of proportion to me....

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-13 04:09pm

Ancalagon wrote:Not to me... 2 wackos out of over 300 million just isn't that out of proportion to me....

It isn't just the two wackos. It's the much larger number of wackos who stick up for them, make excuses for them, etc. Apparently, if they do it because they think God told them to, they're tragic victims. If they do it for any other reason, they're evil.

NapoleonGH · Post by **NapoleonGH** » 2003-05-13 04:29pm

ya know, i really have no problem with people saying god told them to murder. I say, fine, lets try god and every church that believes in that god for murder (the churches as an accomplice, god for "conspiracy to commit murder" and finally the woman for actually committing the murder) I want a warrant for the arrest of god in every post office and every church charged with being accomplices. He wants to tell his followers to murder, the law should stand up and be enforced for all participants, not just the corporeal ones.

Uther · Post by **Uther** » 2003-05-13 05:49pm

This strikes me as somewhat odd: we have very little information as to what motivated this woman to do what she did, and the members of this board seem to be leaping to conclusions. If I had done what she did, given that it is completely indefensible from any moral or legal standpoint, I would certainly start blabbering about God or Satan or talking dogs in order to make myself appear mentally unbalanced. It's the logical thing to do.

Additionally, are we really going to claim that something in Christian doctrine caused her to do this? Do we even know what sect she belonged to? The Yates case was, I imagine, caused more by mental unbalances and a mental problem than by religion- although it should be noted that the Yates family's religious doctrine did almost certainly contribute to that tragedy.

This is the real question: whose Christianity are we talking about "banning"?

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » 2003-05-13 05:52pm

NapoleonGH wrote:ya know, i really have no problem with people saying god told them to murder. I say, fine, lets try god and every church that believes in that god for murder (the churches as an accomplice, god for "conspiracy to commit murder" and finally the woman for actually committing the murder) I want a warrant for the arrest of god in every post office and every church charged with being accomplices. He wants to tell his followers to murder, the law should stand up and be enforced for all participants, not just the corporeal ones.

Yeah, next time i commit a crime i'll blame it on NapoleonGH and since i would never ever lie about it, i must be telling the truth