Cat escapes bag, flees the scene
Ah, so they admit it.
Members of something called ‘One Mind Ministries’
denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say “Amen” at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection, then packed it into a suitcase with mothballs. They left it in a shed in Philadelphia, where it remained for a year before detectives found it last spring.
The baby’s mother is going on trial for murder.
Psychiatrists who evaluated Ramkissoon at the request of a judge concluded that she was not criminally insane. Her attorney, Steven Silverman, said the doctors found that her beliefs were indistinguishable from religious beliefs, in part because they were shared by those around her. “She wasn’t delusional, because she was following a religion,” Silverman said, describing the findings of the doctors’ psychiatric evaluation…Silverman said he and prosecutors think Ramkissoon was brainwashed and should have been found not criminally responsible; prosecutors declined to comment. Although an inability to think critically can be a sign of brainwashing, experts said, the line between that and some religious beliefs can be difficult to discern. “At times there can be an overlap between extreme religious conviction and delusion,” said Robert Jay Lifton.
Well quite. This is what we keep saying.
Notice how very carefully it’s worded though. “… the line between[brainwashing] and some religious beliefs can be difficult to discern.” “… there can be an overlap between extreme religious conviction and delusion.” Do you think that the defence and prosecutor in this case would have found Mohammed Atta not criminally responsible? But the Manson ‘family’ is still in jail, and the pope is still free.
Oh yes, I know – but still, they did admit a lot!
“She wasn’t delusional, because she was following a religion,”
What?
“She WASN’T delusional, BECAUSE she was following a religion,”
So not only is religion not a delusion, it is actually *incompatible* with delusion?
Would, Reclaiming the Mind Ministry be anoffshot of this cult.
It has this to say
“We truly believe that God is calling us to have a significant impact on the church and culture by taking back what rightly belongs to God – the mind. We live in a time of anti-intellectualism, skepticism, and confusion. Our goal is to reclaim the mind by energizing the church providing resources for intellectual engagement.”
The cult figures who left the child to die wear only white clothes. It surely says a lot about their purity of minds.
More like white ‘blood-stained’ clothes!