Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
"Brainwashed"? Nope, just another believer.
Though admittedly more extreme than most:
Md. mom's starvation plea pegged to resurrection
BALTIMORE – Prosecutors agreed to some unusual terms to win a guilty plea from a former religious cult member charged with starving her 1-year-old son to death: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn.
Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed Monday to testify against four other members of the now-defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson, whose body was kept in a suitcase packed with mothballs and fabric softener sheets long after he died.
Ramkissoon's lawyer said the resurrection clause Ramkissoon insisted on shows that she is still "brainwashed" and needs the psychological treatment that is planned as part of her sentencing.
According to a statement of facts, the cult members stopped feeding the boy when he refused to say "Amen" after a meal. After Javon died, Ramkissoon sat next to his decomposing body and prayed for his resurrection.
"But religion is a force for *good*" insist the believers.
Gah.
Jim Downey
(Thanks to ML for the story.)
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1 Mind Ministries: translation
Among the whole lot of them, there's only enough brain matter to make one mind.
Gah.
Mothballs and fabric softener???
What, is that right out of the Serial Killer Handbook?
"Chapter 8: Keeping Bodies Fresh
"If you plan to save the remains of your victims, perhaps for souvenirs (although one source recommends them highly as traveling companions; Robert Lecter, grandson of the famous Hannibal, penned a series of well-received travel books, "Globe-Trotting with Lucy," which he researched over the course of four years in the company of his dead companion Lucille), there is probably no better formula for their preservation than moth balls and fabric softener sheets."
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I'm curious about the "psychological treatment" this woman is to receive. Let's say you're an obvious religious nut, and you kill someone, is there any moment in your therapy when someone says "There are no such things as gods" — helping you make a clean break from the craziness?
Or do you get something like "Your only mistake was in worshipping God in the wrong way"? Like that kid in rehab in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" who says "I used to be a heroin addict. Now I'm a methadone addict."
I STILL continue to marvel that you never hear of the psychological malady that should be called "religious illness." Maybe the psychology profession thinks that if 85 percent of everybody believes in it, having it is the equivalent of being well-adjusted. Or maybe, in this majority-crazy environment, they're just afraid to bring it up.