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“Am I therefore become your enemy for telling you the truth?”

The Apostle Paul   Galatians 4:16

  Victims of Religion  

This page is dedicated to those well-meaning but ignoring-the-facts Christians who ask me "Why must you be so negative towards religion? It's never done anyone any harm!" Sad to say, it has. On top of overt physical harm, religion can also result in wasting one's life chasing fantasies- and these billions of followers will never get back the time (or effort) they wasted on their religions. There is also psychological harm inflicted on millions of believers and their families, religion having emotionally crippled them for life. For any who doubt what I say regarding the psychological harm religion has inflicted on society, they need only to visit the nearest psych ward to see for themselves that it is over-flowing with religionists, not Atheists. To all the victims of religion my heart goes out to you, and to you I dedicate this page, in the hopes that you may be SET FREE and thus spared any future pain.

The following people would have all been better off if religion were not in the world. These are innocent victims who have suffered personally from the drug of religion, or second hand as the victims of its addicts. Of course religion, like cocaine, doesn’t turn everyone into raving lunatics; but for those it does, society pays the cost in pain, suffering, and oft times even death. When it comes to religion, be smart- don't even start.

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And I am pretty sure that all of these Christians that ended up doing horrible things to their fellow human beings, they all prayed beforehand about what to do, and what they ended up doing was what they felt the Lord was leading them to do.

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 Jonestown:   Nov 18,  1978

900 responses from Rev. Jim Jones  for those who ask

 "What's the harm in religion?"

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"Rampage" Jackson... on a Mission from God... to Save an Atheist!!!

August 29, 2008  Orange County Register, p. Local 1  

Newport Beach, CA

"Jackson, a former Ultimate Fighting Challenge champion, said he felt there was a spiritual war going on in his mind between God and the devil when he raced down Newport Blvd on July 15, leaving behind crumpled cars, frightened pedestrians, and angry police. He said he thought he was on a mission to save a friend- who had recently lost his faith in God- and was unaware that he had hit any other cars or was being pursued by a phalanx of police cars.  'I thought I heard the voice of God telling me to go save Brian'".

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Reverend Kyle Killed by Biblegod- in a Baptismal !!!

Oct. 30, 2005

Waco, Texas     http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33258/      

BibleGod has a sense of humor. Immediately after the entire church sang “Surprise Me God”, he did. He killed the preacher.  However BibleGod, who used to throw thunderbolts into people in the bad old days, prefers a more modern touch today.  Rev. Kyle Lake, age 33, was electrocuted Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 at University Baptist Church in Waco (where else?) Texas, as he was trying to baptize a woman. (I wonder if the woman ran the hell out of there screaming??? I sure would have!). Need I point out had Kyle been one of the 40 million plus Atheists in this country, he'd still be alive. Be that as it may, it is certainly a sign that BibleGod is pissed off at University Baptist Church, maybe for their Christian rock music being too loud- after all, BibleGod is pretty old and as they say, if it's too loud you're too old. Of course, it could also be a sign that maybe the Baptists and the Church of Christers have been wrong about baptism by immersion- Kyle would still be alive today had it been sprinkling rather than immersion. Or it could be a sign that Kyle had been killed for "lusting in his heart" (damn those see-thru baptismal gowns!!!)???. Again- not an issue with sprinkling. Or, then again, it could be a sign that there's something really screwed up with the wiring of the P.A. system at that church (and they'd better use a licensed union electrician next time rather than a day laborer hanging out in front of Home Depot.) Bottom line is this: it proves beyond a doubt that BibleGod doesn't protect "his" people, not even in "his" church, and not even in the middle of a baptism. So Fundies beware: BibleGod might pull a "Job" on you or your family members at any time for no better reason than just because he's bored and making bets with BibleDevil.

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Christian Coalition Head Resigns

Mutnomah County, Oregon, USA

L.A. Times, 10/11/05 p. A-12  

Lou Beres (70), the man in charge of the Christian Coalition of the entire state of Oregon, resigned his post after being accused of sexual molestation by not one, not two, but THREE of his female relatives. Of course, we all know that Christians are perfect and would never do this sort of thing, so therefore all three of his "female relatives" must be flaming Satan worshippers out to besmirch the good name of a devoted godly man.

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God Tells Man to Kill Parents

Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

L.A. Times,  10/11/05 p. A-12

Philip Badowski (23) got a call from God. God told him to shoot his parents and then use a chain saw to slice and dice them up. Being a good Christian, what else could he do but comply???

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Christian Mother Cuts Off  Daughter's Arms

Dallas, Texas (where else?), USA

L.A. Times, OC Edition, 11/24/04

Dena Schlosser, 35, chopped the little arms off her eleven month old daughter Margaret. Dena, no doubt a Pro-Bush staunch "right to lifer" out to prevent any one from having an abortion, didn't think twice about killing her own child. She had calmly cut her baby's arms off while listening to Christian hymns playing on her stereo.  When police arrived, the devout Christian was sitting in her living room, holding a knife and drenched in blood with the church music still playing. Her baby was in the bedroom, armless and bleeding to death. She later died at the hospital, safe from her mother's Christian care. Her husband John told police that the night before she had said she wanted to "give her children to God" because that's what the Bible said to do. They attended the "Water of Life Church" in Plano, Texas, where the preacher Mr. Davidson teaches that doctors aren't necessary because people can be healed if their faith is "in the right place."

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Mormon Scholar- Disfellowshipped for Being Honest

Sandy, Utah, USA

L.A. Times, OC Edition, 12/13/04   p. A21

Grant Palmer, 64, a fourth generation Mormon church director and educator for 34 years, who has spent his whole life studying the Mormon church, came up with the "wrong" conclusions and has been disfellowshipped from the Mormon Church. Grant has a Master's degree from BYU in history. It seems as if his book, "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" proves that Mormon founder Joe Smith played fast and free with Mormon scriptures, and now Grant is being punished for not having the common sense to shut the hell up about it. Once again, free speech and religion do NOT get along!

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Minister- Incest with THREE Daughters

Yadkinville, NC, USA

Orange County Register, 10/29/04   p. News 26

The minister's three daughters appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show last week to confess how their minister dad molested them on a daily basis for over a decade. At the minister's trial he was sent to prison to 36 years in prison. Of course, the Rev. Ted Hendrix, formerly of the Webbs Chapel United Methodist Church will repent, start a prison ministry, and get out early because "he's a Christian".

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Boy Enslaved Into Church Choir

Texas, USA

Orange County Register, 9/25/04 p. News 18

A 13 year old orphan boy from Zambia, Africa, was lured into a traveling Texas church choir with false promises of "we'll send money back to your brothers and sisters."  The reality was the choir being forced to perform up to seven times a day different locations & times, forced to sing even when sick, and if they COULDN'T sing even when forced, they wouldn't be fed.

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Man Chops His Tongue Off as Sacrifice

Bhubaneswar, India

Orange County Register, 6/18/04 p. News 30

A 22 year old Indian man, Prasanta Palei, walked into a temple of a Hindu goddess in eastern India, and chopped his tongue, hoping the gesture would influence his gods into getting him a job.

(NOTE:  I just hope he wasn't thinking about working in one of those phone centers Americans have set up over there.)

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3 Children's Heads Bashed In = 2 Dead, 1 Crippled

Tyler, Texas

Orange County Register, March 30, 2004, page: News 10 & other sources

God told Deanna Laney, the 39 year old mother of three boys, to kill her sons by bashing their brains in with a VERY large rock. Her defense attorney pointed out that "The dilemma she faced is a terrible one for a mother," Files told the jury. "Does she follow what she believes to be God's will, or does she turn her back on God?"  Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6, died, while younger brother Aaron, 14 months old, suffered serious brain injury. Laney believed God had told her the world was going to end and "she had to get her house in order," which included killing her children, who would then shortly be resurrected. The "deeply religious East Texas woman", a choir member, vocalist, and volunteer worker at the 250 member First Assembly of God in Tyler, who home-schooled her children in New Chapel Hill,  wept when the prosecutors showed the courtroom the gruesome and graphic photographs of the bashed in skulls. She killed her children on, of all weekends, Mother's Day weekend (!) in 2003. Deanna Laney said Luke was lying on his back, his head against a rock, as she stood over him and hammered a sandstone the size of a dinner plate into his skull several times. "He kept gurgling," she said. "He kept breathing and I knew he had to die. So I got this rock and I put it over his chest and I held it over his chest."

Associated Press

Mar. 31, 2004 03:30 PM

TYLER, Texas - In a videotape played at her murder trial Wednesday, a sobbing Deanna Laney described how she smashed her sons' skulls with rocks after getting a sign from God that he wanted her to kill them.   "I believed with all my heart that it was the Lord telling me that, but I couldn't figure out why," Laney, 39, told psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz seven months after the killings last Mother's Day weekend. Laney broke down several times as she described the attacks.

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14 Boys & Girls Molested

United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Eatonton, Georgia

Los Angeles Times, Jan 24, 2004, page 24

Malachi York, aged 58, was recently convicted. He "recruited older girls to groom younger girls for sex with him, and used the cult for his own financial gain." If the girls pleased York, they got trips to WalMart. York still faces an additional 77 state charges of child molestation. 

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Six Year Old Girl Killed: “Covered in Pages from a Bible”  

January 2004, Atlanta, Georgia

“A 6-year-old girl found dead in a motel room had been strangled, stabbed, beaten and covered in pages torn from a Bible, possibly in an attempt to "undemonize" her, police said Tuesday. Christopher Carey, 29, and his wife Valerie, 27, were taken to a psychiatric ward Monday and charged with murder. The husband was later transferred to jail. The Careys were arrested after they were spotted wandering the street naked in the freezing cold with a 7-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy. The older child provided detectives with information that led investigators to the motel where the 6-year-old was discovered, police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said. Quigley said the adults indicated they were conducting a ritual that "had something to do with undemonizing the child."

  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/exorcism-suspected-in-child-death/     

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Ghost Dancers

1880's, American Indians

A religious movement started by Wavoka, aka Jack Wilson, which became popular among many western tribes of the American Indians. It taught that if they wore special sacred shirts and danced the sacred dance, then the bullets of the white men would not be able to pass thru the shirt. They were wrong, and many died in their beliefs. One such battle was that of Wounded Knee in 1890, wherein men, women, and children wore the "bulletproof" shirts, but died anyway.

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100’s Killed in Religious Riots  

Nov 2002  Lagos, Nigeria (Africa)   

LAGOS, Nigeria (Nov. 22, 2002) - Rioting by mobs of Muslims and Christians in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna has killed as many as 100 people and seriously injured 500 others, Red Cross officials said Friday as thousands of residents sought refuge in army bases and police stations.

Mobs of Christian youths retaliated against Muslims on Friday in the third day of riots triggered by a newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the Miss World beauty pageant......

Sporadic gunshots and shouting could be heard Friday morning by Kaduna residents who were still hiding in fear inside their homes. Angry mobs have stabbed and set fire to bystanders, while others have burned churches and rampaged through streets.

On Friday morning, plumes of black smoke rose above the city from makeshift barricades lit by angry mobs. Authorities extended a round-the-clock curfew, although large numbers of people were ignoring the order.

In the neighborhoods of Ungwa-Rome and Larayi - areas dominated by minority Christians - witnesses said mobs of youths smashed windows and set fires in mosques used by the ethnic Hausa and Fulani Muslims who dominate Kaduna, a cosmopolitan city of several million people.......

Street demonstrations began Wednesday with the burning of an office of ThisDay newspaper in Kaduna after the Lagos-based daily published an article questioning Muslim groups that have condemned the Miss World pageant, to be held Dec. 7 in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency..........

At least four churches were destroyed in the rioting, Ijewere said.

Young men shouting ''Allahu Akhbar,'' or ''God is great,'' ignited makeshift street barricades made of tires and garbage, sending plumes of black smoke rising above the city. Others were heard chanting, ''Down with beauty'' and ''Miss World is sin.''

Previous riots in Kaduna, a largely Muslim city with a sizable Christian minority, have escalated into religious battles that killed hundreds since civilian government replaced military rule in 1999.

Islamic fundamentalist groups have for several months warned of protests against the Miss World pageant, prompting organizers to postpone the finale until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The pageant has also drawn protests from other parts of the world.

Contestants from five countries - Costa Rica, Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa and Panama - are boycotting the event because Islamic courts in Nigeria have sentenced several unmarried women to death. Nigeria's government insists none of the judgments will be carried out, although it has refused to intervene directly.

AP-NY-11-22-02 0556EST

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Christians Kill 27 Muslims  

February 2006   Nigeria (Africa)  

At Least 27 Are Killed in New Religious Riots     Revenge attacks against Muslims killed at least 27 people in southeastern Nigeria after anti-Christian violence killed dozens and left thousands homeless in the mainly Muslim north.

(Los Angeles Times, 2/23/06 p. A10)  

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Catholics Slaughtered by Protestants

1615   Europe

Here we have a Catholic Jesuit, John Ogilvie, who, thanks to the kindness of local Protestants, has been put up for the night- & getting his guts cut out for Jesus. His crime? Not pushing the same brand of Jesus down everyone's throats that the local protestants were. The REAL crime here, though, is that both John and the good Christian disemboweling him were probably both praising  Jesus while this was going on. If THAT'S not mental, what the hell is? "Oh, thank you Lord Jesus that I can die a martyr for you..." and "Thank you, Jesus, that I can put an end to this heretic misleading the faithful..."

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Protestants Slaughtered by Catholics

1562  France

Here we have an entire town in France being massacred for worshipping the wrong brand of Jesus. This should be a lesson for Christians who are trying to destroy the wall of separation between church and state- THIS is what happens when one Christian group takes over the government- they then use the government to eliminate their spiritual competition. It has happened plenty of times in Christian history- what makes you Republicans think it can't happen again, and happen here in the USA?

"Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it."

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Catholics Slaughtered by Protestants

France

Here we have loving French Protestants who have cut off the dick and balls of a Catholic Priest (for his own good, no doubt), cooked them, and are now serving him lunch- how kind- lunch being his own you-know-what. But that's not enough Christian kindness for one day- they also cut open his guts to make sure this "food" passed thru his system ok. Praise Jesus! Praise Christian values! Also notice the little kids being hacked to death- just makes one nostalgic for Hosea 13:16} "...their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."  Praise JoeHovah! After all, as I've heard from hundreds of Christians, this life doesn't matter, we're all going to die anyway, so what's the big deal, right?  

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As seen above, religion deadens the normal feelings of human compassion. Pain & suffering in life don't matter, for life is temporary anyway. Death is no big deal, for the "real" life doesn't begin till after we're dead. Human suffering and death, to a die-hard Fundy, are GOOD things, not bad, for they lead people to "recognize their need for God".  And none of the Christians involved in these atrocities- both as victim or assailant- lost any sleep over these happenings. The victims with joy accepted their pains and disfigurements, thinking this bought them a first-class ticket to heaven. The sick bastards who inflicted the pain did so joyfully, thinking they were being good little Christians when they burned and hacked "heretics" to death- after all, if you torture the heretic maybe he'll see the error of his ways and repent before you kill him, thus getting him sent to heaven. If he doesn't repent, when you kill him you are saving all the souls that would have been "lead astray" due to the heretic continuing in his false teaching. Think of Christians killing abortion doctors to save future fetuses and you'll get the picture. All of these sick puppies based their actions upon the Bible, and all could no doubt cite book, chapter, and verse to back up their beliefs. None of these folks thought of themselves as bad people, as all normal human compassion had long ago been purged from their system by Christian teachings. And if ANY of you Christians reading this are thinking "Oh, big deal- that was all long ago in the past" you need to be reminded that in the eyes of your BibleGod, even just one day “is as a 1,000 years”. In other words, for you, this was just yesterday. .

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Shot to Death: 100 Evangelicals, 21 Catholics

October 2003,  San Cristobal De Las Casas, Mexico

Over the past 30 years, in a region of Mexico "torn by religious conflict" Catholics and Evangelicals have been shooting each other to death. The latest murder occurred October 2003 when a Protestant pastor by the name of Rev. Mendez was ambushed and shot to death by two Catholics.

Orange County Register, Oct. 29, 2003, p. News 25

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Four Kids Starved to Death

October 2003, New Jersey

A "deeply religious" family starved four of their adopted children to death. The four used to be taken to church regularly by their loving Christian parents. The eldest child- 19 years old- weighed around 50 pounds. The parents had locked the adopted kids out of the kitchen, though fed their biological kids just fine. What I saw on TV really sickened me: When the parents were released on bail, their fellow church members at the "Come Alive New Testament Church" cheered them like they were heroes. Not one of their fellow Christians appeared to see anything wrong in starving four kids to death.

Orange County Register, Oct 29, 2003 p. News 17

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Religion Drives Yet ANOTHER Person Crazy

Cause of Insanity: Reading the Bible

September 2003, Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, enroute to (wherelse!) Texas

Passengers on a United Airlines jet had to tie up a crazy Christian with duct tape because he "became agitated after reading the Bible." He was reading the Bible aloud- SO loud as to be shouting! (Gotta let everybody hear the good news, ya know- just MIGHT save some from hell!!! When you got GOOD NEWS, ya can't just keep it to yourself!!!). When his LOUD reading made a child cry several rows away, he said he needed to help the child, and pushed past a flight attendant in a rush to get to the child. At this, his fellow passengers had had enough, and several overcame the religious nut and duct tapped him. Please note that this happened almost two years to the day when some OTHER religious nuts took over four planes and crashed them into The World Trade Center. Just gotta watch those religious nuts on planes!  Brian Kane Eager, 36 years old and six months out of prison, was arrested by the FBI after the plane landed. His elder brother was quoted as saying "While he was in prison, he found religion, as many people do. He became very LOUD and Bible thumping." THANK YOU, CHUCK COLSON, for messing up yet ANOTHER poor guy stuck in prison!!!

Los Angeles Times, O.C. Edition, Sept. 15, 2003, p. B6

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Do Your Religious Duty:  KILL CHRISTIANS  

December 2002

"It is the duty of every good Muslim to kill Christians. You should attack Christians and not even have food until you have seen their dead bodies."  

(From the sermon of Muslim cleric Afzar at a Pakistani  mosque which inspired  a bloody massacre 3 days later. Some big brave Muslims tossed grenades into a church on Christmas day full of women and girls. 

Orange County Register, 12/27/02  p. News 38   

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Religion Ruins Another Marriage

This was a letter to "Dear Abbey"

Orange County Register, July 19, 2002

Dear Abbey:  I am a 52 year old man married to "Sarah," the most wonderful woman I have ever met. She is intelligent, ethical, witty, pretty, healthy- a great mother and grandmother. She means the world to me.     About 10 years ago Sarah "rededicated herself to God" and lost all interest in sharing an emotional, romantic and physical connection with me. She immersed herself in her church, Bible studies, our children, cats and pottery making.     She seems happy with this life. I am not. I want more than a brother-sister relationship with my wife. I want to travel, go dancing, hold her hand at the movies- and to make love together.     Our marriage counselor says we may never meet each other's needs and should consider going our separate ways. However, I do not believe a man should leave his wife and family, and Sarah feels the same. Everyone would hate me if I left her- the community, our children and Sarah herself.     I cannot imagine living 30 more years without the love I need in my life, yet I don't like the choices of divorce or loneliness. Abby, is there a third choice I'm not seeing? An affair is out of the question.

            ---Husband At A Crossroads in Southern California

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Beating a Boy Senseless for Jesus

July 2002, Austin, Texas

An eleven year old boy was caught cheating on a Bible test in church. As punishment,  Pastor Joshua Thompson, of Capitol City Baptist Church, and the Pastor's brother, beat the boy with a stick for over an hour. They beat him so much the boy's kidneys failed, and he ended up in the hospital in fair condition. I guess they were giving the boy a taste of that "old time religion".

L.A. Times, Orange County Edition, July 10, 2002 p. A-10

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86 Americans: Entire Families

Cause of Death: Christianity, and its belief in an afterlife.

April 19, 1993, Waco, Texas.

David Koresh and his Christian church, the Branch Dividians, when surrounded by federal agents, decided to escape where no federal agents could follow-- they escaped into the mythical Christian afterlife. Christian dogma directly led to the deaths of these innocent people. If the Branch Dividian compound had been, say, a nudist colony/Elks Club/Rotary Club etc., rather than a church, do you think the people would have fought it out and chosen mass suicide as the “only option”??? Of course not. If these people had all been secular humanists they would have still been alive. Their Christianity killed them, and their kids. Thank you Jesus???

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Alisa Izquierdo, age 6

Cause of Death: Christianity, and its belief in demons and a Satan.

November, 1995    New York City, NY

Alisa Izquierdo, age 6, was TORTURED TO DEATH by her mother who thought the little girl was POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL. "Alisa's body displayed a road map of pain so frightful that the paramedics who tried to revive her needed counseling. Dozens of small bruises and apparent cigarette burns dotted her skin. A BONE was protruding from her right pinky, one of SEVERAL broken fingers...Police believe the other used the child's head to clean the floor on Halloween...But when Awilda Lopez looked at her third-oldest daughter, SHE SAW SATAN, police said. 'SHE'S SHOWING NO EMOTION BECAUSE SHE BELIEVES SHE DID THE RIGHT THING,' Lt. Luis Ganzales said. 'She believes her daughter was possessed by the devil.'  Lopez admitted that SHE SMASHED THE FIRST-GRADER'S HEAD AGAINST A CEMENT WALL MONDAY, police said."

(The Orange County Register, Nov. 25, 1995, p. A-29)

NOTE:  The mother showed no emotion because, as a Bible-believing Christian, she feels she did the right thing, and we can all be certain that she prayed beforehand and got a feeling of what to do. She smashed the little kid's brains out against a cement wall, and was happy and "blessed" in doing it, as her CHRISTIAN Bible says in the Psalms:

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock. (Psalms 137:9, NASB)

As far as Christians killing their children, their CHRISTIAN Bible gives them that right! Please read about “Family Values” from the good book:  “If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death.”  (Leviticus 20:9, NASB).

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13 adults, 3 children.

December 1995  France

Cause of death:  Suicide via Christianity, and its belief in an afterlife.

Among the dead adults: 2 policemen, 2 architects, a nurse, and a doctor.

 --Dec. 1995, as reported by the New York Times.

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53 people; men/women/children

Cause of death: Suicide via Christianity, and its belief in an afterlife.

October 1994, Switzerland and Canada.

53 men, women, and children found burned to death in mass suicides, in a vain & useless attempt to reach a better world in a mythical afterlife.

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Teenage Daughter in India

Cause of Death: Hinduism.

"A middle-ages Indian BEHEADED his young daughter last week in the western Indian state of Gujarat to appease a Hindu deity.... He reportedly said he had had a dream in which a goddess asked him to make a human sacrifice."

L.A. Times, 5/3/94, page A-8

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30  Mexican Churchaholics

Cause of Death: "Feeling the Presence of The Lord".

"An evangelist minister urged his suffocating followers to stay with him in a church and 'feel the presence of the Lord' as toxic fumes took thirty lives, including his own...The three survivors (who had fled in time) described a macabre scene as the minister, identified as Ramon Almazan, urged people to stay calm as they began to choke on the fumes (from a faulty butane lamp) and vomit or faint. "Let Christ come in and stay with us, do not be afraid," he was quoted as saying as his own daughter slumped to the floor."

(Reuter's, quote unspecified, 1992)

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Ms Taylor Dixon

Cause of Death:  Christianity (& Christmas shopping???).

Los Angeles, California

"Taylor was holding a butcher knife in her left hand and her young son in her right while she shouted (to the police), 'For the blood of Jesus!”

(L.A. Times, Feb. '94)

The police shot her nine times. The boy was saved (by the cops, NOT Jesus).  She had been Christmas shopping earlier that day.

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Two people killed, four more wounded.

Cause of Death: Christianity.

Dec. 14, 1992, Great Barrington, Mass.

"A college student was convicted in Springfield, Mass., of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting two people and wounding four others during a rampage at his school...He listened impassively as the verdicts were read...He believed he was acting on God's wishes."  (Orange County Register, 2/4/94)

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Woman blinded for life.  

Cause of Blindness:  Christianity and its belief in demons.

"Myra Obasi said she was possessed by a demon when her eyeballs were gouged out of their sockets and left in a wastebasket..."

"Two women were convicted Wednesday of aggravated assault for gouging out their sister's eyes in an effort TO DRIVE OUT A DEMON...(the victim) testified on behalf of her sisters, saying that she was controlled by an evil spirit the day she lost her eyes... the two women (after removing the eyes) shoved garlic cloves in."

(Orange County Register, 9/22/94, page A-7)

NOTE:  Why would Christians even be upset over this? They had only been practicing what their own Jesus had commanded them to do in the Gospel of Matthew:

And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you.  (Matthew 18:9 NASB).

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Woman shot  in back.

Cause of Shooting: Christianity

James Kirby fired one round point blank into the back of Ellen Campbell, as they both sat watching the movie "Schindler's List" in San Diego, California, Jan 6, 1994. James the Christian had wanted to "test God" and "protect Jews."  (L.A. Times, 2/8/94, page  A-19)

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Joel David, 26 days old.

Nine month old daughter.

88 misc. children and adults.

Cause of Death:  Christianity, and its belief in faith healing.

"Columbia City, Indiana:  A husband and wife whose faith-healing religious sect taught them to shun medical treatment were sentenced to five years in prison for allowing their infant son to die at home of untreated pneumonia.  'We can't tolerate human sacrifice in the name of religion' Judge Edward J. Meyers said...The Halls are members of the Faith Assembly Church, based in Noble County...A second Indiana couple face sentencing next month for letting their 9 month old daughter die from an untreated bacterial meningitis...The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel newspaper says IT HAS DOCUMENTED 88 WHO HAVE DIED AFTER THEY OR THEIR PARENTS FOLLOWED THE SECT'S TEACHING... The Halls showed NO EMOTION"  (The Sun, 9/25/84, page A-3)

NOTE:  Once again, we read of Christians showing no human emotions for the horrendous crimes they have done against humanity. The reason they showed no emotion is because IN THEIR MINDS they believe they had done the right thing. They had only been obeying what the Christian Bible teaches, in the book of James:

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.  (James 5:14,15, NASB).

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Woman Killed During “Exorcism”

Mrs Chung Jae Chung, 53 year old minister’s wife.

On July 4, 1996, in Los Angeles, a 53 year old Korean woman (formerly a missionary to China) died from "blunt force trauma," the result of an exorcism. Her husband (a minister) and two other males, one a Deacon at Glendale Korean Methodist Church, beat her with their fists and feet for several hours, trying to drive "the devil" out of her. She had consented to the exorcism. As usual, the news media neglected to connect a terrible event such as this with Christianity or churches. The above details were learned from a radio interview with the husband’s attorneys. Needless to say, if Mrs. Chung had never set foot inside a church, she would never have died like this.

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Massacre

Cause of Death: Islam

Seventeen men were chosen at random on a bus stopped by Algerian Muslim fundamentalists, taken into a nearby field, where the Muslims slit their throats to let them bleed to death- all, I'm sure, for the love of Allah.  (L.A. Times, 8/19/96, page A-9)

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Yet Another Massacre

Cause of death: Islam

Algeria, North Africa

 “Another Massacre:  Armed men killed 64 people in an attack on a rural hamlet outside the capital of Algeria, crying, “God is great” at each slaying. Many of those killed in the massacre in Souane on Thursday had their throats slit…  The Armed Islamic Group is trying to topple Algeria’s military-backed government and install an Islamic state based on strict interpretation of Muslim holy law.”

(Orange County Register, 8/23/97, page News 3)

NOTE:  The on-going bad news from Algeria continues to pour in at too fast a rate to keep up with. Just a week after the above massacre, more than 300 people in another village had their throats slit [God is great, isn’t he??? The numbers are REALLY going up!], and the week after that, another 70 or so- mostly women. The part about trying to change the government to a more religious one should be a warning shot across our bow here in the USA, where several Christian groups have the same goal. They have already started by blowing up and/or burning several HUNDRED abortion clinics, all to promote their belief that “God is great.”

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Man Convicted To Die For Apostasy

Hussein Qambar Ali, age 45.  Kuwait

A Muslim man who was convicted to die for the crime of apostasy in Kuwait has been smuggled into the United States. He was found guilty by a Shiite religious court of apostasy on May 29, 1996, as he had converted from Islam to Christianity two years prior. The court recommended that under Islamic Law (Sharia)  that Hussein “should be killed.”

(L.A. Times, 8/24/96, page B-5)

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Cut Off Woman’s Head for God

Deborah Lewis, 27, gas station clerk.

Cause of death: “God told him to do it”

Deborah Lewis lost her head to Samuel Lee Ivery in 1992 after God had told Samuel to “cut off the woman’s head” while he was robbing the gas station in Mobile, Alabama, of $302. Samuel had been diagnosed by mental heath experts as a paranoid schizophrenic. Samuel was also suspected of two similar slayings in July 1992, in East St. Louis, Ill.

(The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA, Christmas day, 12-25-96, page B-2)

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High Speed Chase/Evasion of Police Due to “Mission from God”

Tina Berger:  41  

Cause of chase: God told her to.

Tina Berger’s 130 mile high speed chase ended   “as California Highway Patrol officers with guns drawn surrounded the car and arrested (the) San Clemente woman.” She was “taken to a Ventura mental hospital for observation and charged with speeding, evading police and reckless driving.”  She told officers that she had been on a mission from God, and was on her way to Santa Barbara (at up to 100 mph) to take over a minister’s position, and then return home.

(The Orange County Register, 1/7/97, Metro, p. 2)

NOTE:  For anyone who’s ever seen “The Blues Brothers” movie, this one’s for you!

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Off To Catch A Comet: 39 Castrations & Suicides  

Rancho Santa Fe, California  

Cause of  Death:  Trusting a Preacher Who Promised An Afterlife  

Marshall Applewhite, son of a Presbyterian minister, ex-student at Union Theological Seminary, ex-Church choir leader, ex- Catholic college music prof, led his mostly college educated flock in a mass suicide (discovered March 26, 1997 Rancho Santa Fe, CA) in a joyful but idiotic attempt to catch a ride on a supposed UFO hiding behind the comet Hale-Bopp. Bibles and Heaven’s Gate manuals were kept side by side.

(The Orange County Register, 4-4-97, A-4)  //  (People Weekly, April 14, 1997)

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778 Murdered, 500 of Which Their Heads Exploded

Cause of Death:  Trusting Their Church Leaders & Complaining of Being Let Down

The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God Church

Kanungu, Uganda  March 17, 2000

500 members (mostly women and children) of this group were burned alive within their own church by their own leaders after too many complained about the leaders messing up on their “end of the world” predictions. (They had been told the world would end on June 30, 1999, and had been commanded to sell off everything they owned, and the men had to give their wives over to the church leaders.) The doors and windows had been nailed shut.  “Police say four canisters of sulphuric acid were placed at each corner of the building and mixed with water to create a violent reaction that would precipitate the blaze. Petrol was also sprinkled about the room. The intense heat, exemplified by the way the heads exploded and brains liquefied, suggest that it was all over very quickly.” Hundreds more who weren’t in the church building were later poisoned.

The Orange County Register, 3-13-02, News p. 26  //  People Weekly, April 14, 1997

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778+ Killed in Religious Riots

Cause of Death:  Religious Hatred

Hindus and Muslims, India

A train carrying Hindu religious fanatics was stopped and burned by a mob of Muslim religious fanatics, killing 57. This sparked religious riots in several towns in India. Gas bombs being tossed into houses burned many alive. Any who escaped the burning houses- even little five-year-old children- were faithfully hacked to death by the faithful, or they were pinned down, doused with gasoline, and re-ignited. Many Muslim women were gang-raped by hordes of horny Hindus, after which the women were burned alive.

The Orange County Register, 3/4/02, News p.16  

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CAUTION: Overdosing on Religion can be

Hazardous to One's Health

If religionists will not admit to religion being harmful, will they at least admit to an overdose of religion being harmful? Too much of ANY thing can be harmful, even kittens. Imagine having a single little kitten in a small room with you- cute, right? Now picture yourself in the same little room, but this time stuffed with 64,000 kittens- stuffed to the point where you're suffocating to death- harmful, right? Likewise, religion.

As the Beatles said in a song, "I read the news today, oh boy" and what I came to realize while reading the newspaper for today was that too much religion can also be harmful, as seen in FOUR articles in just ONE DAY's newspaper: the Orange County Register, for Wednesday, July 13, 2005. Given so many stories about the harms of overdosing on religion in just one day's reporting for one newspaper, is it still too much to ask responsible Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders to publicly admit the obvious:  overdosing on religion can be hazardous to the health of oneself and others, and to caution people that we should practice moderation in all things- even religion.

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Four (4) News Articles in JUST ONE DAY from the SAME SMALL NEWSPAPER

on The Hazards of Religion   

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"Tanweer had worked at the family's fish-and-chips store. 'When he was 15 or 16,

 he got all religious, and started praying five times a day'"

(RE: one of the subway bombers in England, page News 3)

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"The Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed Tuesday, saying

 he was driven by religious conviction. 'I don't feel your pain' he told

 the victim's mother... 'If I had the chance to do it again, I would do

 exactly the same thing. What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith'"

(Mohammed was "moved by his faith" to shoot several times, stab several times, then nearly beheaded the filmmaker, before leaving a note affixed to his chest with a dagger. Page News 20)

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"The Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed Tuesday, saying

 he was driven by religious conviction. 'I don't feel your pain' he told

 the victim's mother... 'If I had the chance to do it again, I would do

 exactly the same thing. What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith'"

(Mohammed was "moved by his faith" to shoot several times, stab several times, then nearly beheaded the filmmaker, before leaving a note affixed to his chest with a dagger. Page News 20)

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"It was not until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that Britain moved against radicals

who for years had been calling for jihad, or holy war, on the West.

The best known was... a firebrand Muslim preacher with an eye patch

 and a hook for an arm... a notorious figure...accused of incitement to murder.

Why did the authorities appear to tolerate his inflammatory preaching for so long? (Page News 4)

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