God Told Woman To Kill Children

[LFTKBS]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/04/01/children.slain.ap/index.html

"TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A housewife said the first sign that God wanted her to kill her three boys came Mother's Day weekend when she saw her 14-month-old playing with a toy spear.

Deanna Laney said she resisted at first, but the signs kept coming. The baby came to her with a rock, and later in the day squeezed a frog, and she believed God was suggesting that she should either stab, stone or strangle her children."

Glad to see that religion and insanity cut short the lives of three innocents.

[Charlie Monoxide]

God didn't like those children.

Charlie (recycler of god actions) Monoxide

[Tmy]

I cant get passed the "toy spear" part! Who teh hell makes toy spears?? How do you make a spear thats safe for a 14 month old to play with???

[circuit slave]

?? How do you make a spear thats safe for a 14 month old to play with??? :D


I think EvilDave made a good point on this; why doesn't god ever tell people to do good things?


Well, here's the good thing, when she's in jail for life without parole, she won't need to have "found god" 'cuz she already did :)

[Jas]

Although really, given past performance, it's quite likely that God did tell this woman to kill her children. I can only think of one instance where he was just kidding about it, and I don't think there were any nearby animals caught in the bushes in this instance.

[MLynn]

Why do insane people always drag God or Jesus into it? Why not Krishna, Thor or some other "deity?"

[RCNelson]

MLynn:
Why do insane people always drag God or Jesus into it? Why not Krishna, Thor or some other "deity?" There are biblical accounts of God telling His followers to kill children, or of God killing children himself. These killings are not portrayed in the bible as bad behavior.

It's not surprising then that people who are crazy, and who also happen to be Christian, could think God is telling them to murder children.

[Marc]

Originally posted by Jas
Although really, given past performance, it's quite likely that God did tell this woman to kill her children. I can only think of one instance where he was just kidding about it, and I don't think there were any nearby animals caught in the bushes in this instance.

One interesting thing I learned on studying the bible. The animal caught in the bushes might have been a latter addition to the story. In seperating the books into the seperate sources, it seems that poor little Issac is never mentioned again in the E materials. When the story tells how Abraham came down to his servants afterward there was no mention of the kid comming along with him. :eek:

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Hey, if god told her to do it, then I have to vote not guilty!

[shuize]

Why is it that none of these people never consider the possibility that if god really wanted these kids dead he'd just do it himself?

[rikzilla]

I knew it!!

As soon as I heard the crazy woman "stoned" her children to death, I knew it had to be "biblical"!!

What could be more biblical than that?

-z

However, if the prevailing religion in our country was the worship of Thor,...I'm quite sure the voice would be "Thor" telling her to beat them to death with a baby sledgehammer. Awful messy though!

This isn't really about religion guys...this is about mental illness.

[KelvinG]

Originally posted by rikzilla

This isn't really about religion guys...this is about mental illness.

Aren't those the same thing?

[Chaos]

Originally posted by rikzilla

This isn't really about religion guys...this is about mental illness.

Interesting thought (as is KelvinG´s).

Could it be that "Muslim" terrorism is also about mental illness, and not about religion?
And wife-beating?
And "honor" killings?
And so on...

[RCNelson]

Chaos:
Could it be that "Muslim" terrorism is also about mental illness, and not about religion?
And wife-beating?
And "honor" killings?
And so on... I think religion can amplify mental illness and redirect it towards violent activity.

Without the violence in the Koran or Old Testament, the mental illness would be much less likely to result in violent behavior, so it is about religion as well as mental illness.

A sane person, when reading the violent parts of the Koran or Old Testament, downplays the violence and hatred. One's basic sanity inhibits one from acting as violently as God. A crazy person doesn't have this inhibition.

[nightwind]

Well, I know it sounds crazy when the child killing mom says that "God made her do it".

But, it worked, and you can't argue with success. She has been aquitted and I am sure elated that she didn't have to spend her life behind bars. Her defense attorney would have to even be wondering, "my gosh, what have I done".

I am just hoping that the judge at least requires some kind of treatment, so she won't be right back on the street. Hopefully when she gets "un-insane" and gets out, God won't tell her to finish off the third child.

This lady should have never saw the light of day, ever. Period.

[American]

Originally posted by LFTKBS
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A housewife said the first sign that God wanted her to kill her three boys came Mother's Day weekend...


No he didn't! You're not going to fool me this time.....

Even if there is a God, which nobody really knows, he didn't tell that woman to kill her three boys! Don't ask me how, I just know that I'm right about this.

Let me re-state: God did NOT tell her to murder her kids.

[UserGoogol]

Wow American, and here all of us were, clearly thinking that God had come down and told this woman to kill her children. We weren't being sarcastic or anything. Then you come in and set things straight for us.

Thanks American, for making that clear!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Originally posted by UserGoogol
Wow American, and here all of us were, clearly thinking that God had come down and told this woman to kill her children. We weren't being sarcastic or anything. Then you come in and set things straight for us.

Thanks American, for making that clear!

It's "American". Always use the quote marks.

[Renfield]

I think its interesting that people in this country are so quick to dismiss someone who claims they literally talk to God. After all, they believe in God, and the Bible, which is full of sears, prophets, miracles, and such.

[American]

Originally posted by Renfield
I think its interesting how quick people are in this country, as religious as many are, to dismiss someone who claims they literally talk to God. After all, they believe in God, and the Bible, which is full of sears, prophets, miracles, and such.


God did NOT talk to that woman.

[dmarker]

Originally posted by American



God did NOT talk to that woman.


How do you know that?

[American]

Originally posted by dmarker

How do you know that?


Cause I be smarter than yous think I be!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

god did talk to that woman, "American".

[neutrino_cannon]

I have chalk to coincidence that in a short amount of time, more than one woman has killed her children off on advice from beyond (somewhere). Either that, or increased media coverage, because the rest of the world likes a good morbid delusional killer story as much as we do, it sells. I would not attribute this to a rising trend of mothers killing their children in the name of god (whatever that name happens to be), in the event that any one was suggesting that.

Fathers killing their progeny off, now that's a different story. Perhaps no rising trend there, but they've been doing it so long and trend would hardly dent or build the numbers accumulated over the years.

[phildonnia]

The verdict:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040404/ts_nm/crime_mother_dc_3

[American]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer
god did talk to that woman, "American".


OK, maybe he said SOMETHING to her. But he DIDN'T tell her to kill her children, that's for sure. (And don't quote my name. I'm American.)

[Snide]

Originally posted by circuit slave
:D


I think EvilDave made a good point on this; why doesn't god ever tell people to do good things?


"He" does...they just don't make the news.

[LFTKBS]

What weird is that she gets not guilty by reason of insanity when she says God told her to kill her children, but when President Bush says "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam..." no one points out that this is clearly insane.

[Bentspoon]

I wish I could remember the name of the commentator I heard but he made a very interesting point.

There were two mothers-kill-children stories recently. This one and one where a mother had drowned her children on the advice of Satan. She was found guilty. The kill-w/rocks woman was found not guilty by reason of insanity (at least that's how I understand it)

This commentator made the point that the difference is that when God told you to do it, it is obvious that you don't know right or wrong because, given that you truly believe you are in communication with God, this has got to confuse you.

On the other hand, if you truly believe that Satan is commanding, then there should be no doubt that you know it is evil for it is an evil act commanded by Satan.

Therefore it is rightly appropriate that one is found guilty and the other is not.

I am not sure but I believe it was a psychiatrist that made this statement.

Ponder that for a moment.

My take: I see no difference in the merits of insanity - the one who hears the devil is just as insane as much as I believe that anyone who is in direct communication with God is insane.


Bentspoon