I just read another article about another person who did something horrible in the name of god. She killed her child* because she thought he was possessed by the devil.
Of course she’s insane, probably schizophrenic as they often have lots of wacky god stuff and voices going on, and the bible really only helped her get the idea to kill her child but….
Imagine if she’d done something “good” for the kid or something positive and then said it was the jesus who made her do it. We wouldn’t stop hearing about it. There would be feel-good pieces on the news and in the papers all about the sweet woman with the two kids who feed all the stray cats and horses on her block because the jesus is telling her to do it.
Right? Right.
We can’t have it both ways, can we?
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
Ayn Rand
*the three year old was murdered slowly and painfully, over many days.