More religiously-motivated murder
Via Pharyngula comes a story from Cyprus (a Houston suburb) about the murder of a gay man:
A Cypress man charged in the death of a Southwest Airlines flight attendant said Saturday that he was doing God’s work when he went to a Montrose-area bar last month, hunting for a gay man to kill.
“I believe I’m Elijah, called by God to be a prophet,” said 26-year-old Terry Mark Mangum, charged with murder June 11. ” ... I believe with all my heart that I was doing the right thing.”
Seriously, lock him up for the rest of his life in the loony bin and throw away the key. Just because you hear voices in your head doesn’t mean there’s anyone else there. People need to stop confusing their psychotic episodes for “divine inspiration,” which is just another way of justifying stupidity.
Mangum, who described himself as “definitely not a homosexual,” said God called on him to “carry out a code of retribution” by killing a gay man because “sexual perversion” is the “worst sin.”
Obsessed much? Closet case. Self-loathing is the most dangerous form of hatred.
Mangum believed Cummings to be gay.
Do “not homosexual” men obsess over their gaydar this much?
“I planned on sending him to hell,” he said.
I suspect, if there were a hell, you might find the roles reversed.
Cummings disappeared June 4. His charred remains were found June 16, buried on a 50-acre ranch near San Antonio owned by Mangum’s 90-year-old grandfather.
Gruesome, and he knew he was wrong because he attempted to cover it up. Again, the voices are really contradictory.
“It’s not that I’m a bad dude,” he said, expressing concern that people might view him as “strange.” Pausing briefly, he said, “I love God.”
No, you are pure Evil, “bad” simply doesn’t begin to describe this kind of behavior. Love the voices in your head, but keep your insanity to yourself.
I don’t believe that, if guilty, this is a man that should ever walk the street again. Even if he were to respond to anti-psychotics, he shows no remorse, and only pride, in his crime. The drugs might “cover it up,” but they won’t eliminate the issue, and I suspect if he ever stopped taking them, he’d kill again.
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@Hmmm…: I’ve yet to come across a case where someone was murdered then had their corpse burned and buried at a farm because “Money” told someone to do it.
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There’s much worse than that. Sometimes we proudly call them capitalists. Replace “God” with “Money” and it’s the same kind of pathological behavior.