Libertarian, I respect your religious convictions. At the same time, I have to wonder why a crack addict who guns down someone in a 7-11 gets the death penalty, and someone who brutually beats their small children to death will live to see another day. Her religious convictions led her commit this brutal act. That’s a slap in the face to the God you love, as is all the atrocious acts being commited across the world in the name of God. The current state of affairs really makes me wonder what I should teach my children about religion.
The God I know wouldn’t command a woman to stone her two young children to death. And if He would, then He’s not the god I want to believe in. I’m not a devout Christian anyway but I could not kill a child, mine or someone else’s. I’d have to be insane to do anything like that but even insane, I’d deserve the death penalty. I don’t see her being reformed into a productive member of society ever again. I am NOT saying all non-productive members of society should be killed. In this one instance, I feel she should. This is a horrible, tragic, heartbreaking event and nothing good will come out of it, even if she was to be put to death. Her kids are gone and I can’t get into “only the flesh is dead” way of thinking.
And just because someone does something horrible due to insanity, why shouldn’t their punishment fit the crime? Now, remember… I’m strictly dealing with this OP. This is also MY opinion. I have “an eye for an eye” attitude even in this judical three-ringed circus world we live in. Innocent people are locked away and put to death but so are the guilty and the truly deserving (I define thusly as serial killers, rapists, child molestors, etc…). There will always be something like this that shocks and horrifies us, which is the truly sad part of life.
Whoever has no love in her heart will not live to see another day. She is dead already.
Well, this is just my atheist outside take on things, but I’d guess that Christians could know that their God didn’t tell a mother to murder her children because they know that’s just not the kind of thing their God does. If this woman heard a voice telling her to murder her children, it couldn’t have been God’s. Maybe it was the Devil or something, or maybe she’s just crazy.
However, if I believed in a God that literally talked to people by putting a voice in their heads, I’d have to wonder why God didn’t put his voice in this woman’s head and straighten out the misunderstanding personally. Maybe God tried and she didn’t believe him, but you’d think God could manage to be more convincing than a delusion.
Breaking news I don’t quite know what to say, except I hope that woman gets the psychiatric help she needs now. 