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05/21/07

11:27:31 am, Categories: Announcements [A], 100 words

On Blaming God, Satan

A woman blames the devil and not her husband for severely burning their infant daughter after the two-month-old was put in a microwave, a Texas TV station has reported.

Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter on May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher.

"Satan saw my husband as a threat. Satan attacked him because he saw (Joshua) as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston television station KHOU-TV.

You call it religion, I call it attempted infanticide.
Same diff.

Thanks to those who sent me this

29 comments

Comments:

Comment from: echobucket [Member] · http://reasonableatheist.blogspot.com

Wow, this makes me embarrased to be from Arkansas.

05/21/07 @ 12:02

Comment from: mxracer652 [Member]

This is really sad.

What is even worse is that both parents appear to have some form of christ psychosis.

05/21/07 @ 12:24

Comment from: atomictesting [Member]

What is even worse is that both parents appear to have some form of christ psychosis.

It's the same strange psychosis that so many of this country shares.

The bible is full of infanticide. They were only trying to follow its teachings...

05/21/07 @ 13:20

Comment from: AAJoeyJoJo [Member]

Since the mother has been speaking out on the internet in their defense, I'll bet she'll be competent to stand trial, and will attempt to use the devil defense in court. That would be so great because it would give a court a chance to test the boundaries of sanity in Christianity. If they fight it in court enough, it'll garner a lot of attention to the insanity of religion, and the ease at which insane people fit into that religion.

05/21/07 @ 13:33

Comment from: Mushukyou [Member] · http://www.myspace.com/skydivingatheist

Does anyone know the myspace page she set up?

05/21/07 @ 13:58

Comment from: BibleBeltBoy [Member]

WTF!?? Good ole Mestophales out there seeking to lead the young warrior for Christ astray was he? Good God Almighty (no pun intended)why can't she just say the dog told me to do it ... it would make as much sense. Somebody get that woman a roll of aluminum foil for her hat...pronto!

05/21/07 @ 15:26

Comment from: imaskeptic [Member]

you never seem to hear of an agnostic astrophysicist from MIT popping their kid in the microwave...NEVER...nor the supercollider (if they have twins)...NOPE...least ways i never have

05/21/07 @ 15:33

Comment from: CAB4reason [Member]

Sick, sick, SICK!

05/21/07 @ 16:40

Comment from: karen [Member]

I am still too angry to make much of a comment about this. I really hope Child Protective Services severs parental rights for these idiots.

05/21/07 @ 16:48

Comment from: Jesin [Member]

He microwaved his own child!?! The incredible stupidity rises to ever greater heights!

05/21/07 @ 17:47

Comment from: evilatheistconquerer [Member]

Jesin,
He's not the first. Although I've only heard of people microwaving their kids whenever they were on some heavy drugs like LSD or PCP. So this is extremely sick in that he wasn't even on any kind of drugs; he was just fucked up in the head to begin with.

05/21/07 @ 18:02

Comment from: evilatheistconquerer [Member]

Make that just PCP.

You know, I feel bad for the woman. I read some more into this and it appears that at first she didn't claim her husband was "possessed by Satan" but that he had some sort of problems and "they didn't treat him right." I'm wondering if maybe he had some kind of mental disorder and when he sought treatment for it was dismissed or given bad medication or something. That would explain a lot. Maybe the only way that this woman can explain to herself what happened is by saying that a supernatural force did it because facing to reality, admitting that it is just a mental disorder that wasn't treated properly, is just too hard to do and makes her feel guilty in some way. Maybe someday people will start treating these people effectively and tragedies like this won't happen anymore.

05/21/07 @ 18:29

Comment from: karen [Member]

Whatever the reason, if she's going to make excuses for her husband committing such a despicable act, she doesn't need to be near that baby.

05/21/07 @ 18:57

Comment from: mikayla [Member]

Wow, have they found that this guy had some kind of psychosis that he and the wife blame on the devil? Religion can cause this sort of ignorance of mental illness. Could be that this guy really needs some serious treatment.

05/21/07 @ 19:32

Comment from: reason [Member]

what a horrific tragedy.i agree with karen she does not belong near that baby or any child.

05/21/07 @ 22:21

Comment from: Jacob23 [Member]

That is pretty sad. I think she has a twisted idea of religion.

But if they were simply committing infanticide, we could go along with Peter Singer's argument and say it wasn't really a human person yet anyways.

05/22/07 @ 00:46

Comment from: What [Member]

Mxracer

You are probably correct. A smell psychosis. But it is very interesting that god and savior-based delusions are so very common amongst the pyschotic. I have seen people go from agnostics/atheists to religiously-delusional and back again where the transition to the religiously delusional state is brought on by amphetamine abuse. Get them clean and they are back to be agnostics/atheists.

05/22/07 @ 01:21

Comment from: Atheist_in_Foxhole [Member]

Found your Podcast on Itunes. Love it. Right amount of education and outrage. I was agnostic but 15 months in Iraq made me an anti theist.

05/22/07 @ 04:22

Comment from: Ren [Member]

I wonder why our resident troll doesn't have anything to say about Nuclear Babies for Jesus.

05/22/07 @ 10:37

Comment from: karen [Member]

Ren
Don't encourage it.
Besides, didn't you notice? Jacob 23 is channelling the resident troll.

05/22/07 @ 11:39

Comment from: mxracer652 [Member]

I think she has a twisted idea of religion.

Doubt it, you know, with all of that infanticide that goes on in the babble. Peddle your wares somewhere else faith head.

05/22/07 @ 11:48

Comment from: mxracer652 [Member]

What:

But it is very interesting that god and savior-based delusions are so very common amongst the pyschotic.

Even more fun is that in certain people, this can be electromagnetically induced in the brain.

05/22/07 @ 11:50

Comment from: What [Member]

MX

What do the religious of the xian variety think (whoops ... believe) about the soul's susceptibility to the laws of nature (as we know them)? For example, can souls be altered by an electromagnetic field? Can soul's be destroyed or are they just tortured eternally?

05/22/07 @ 12:32

Comment from: septos [Member]

Satan was framed ,this has Flying Spaghetti Monster written all over it.

My tinfoil hat fell off.

05/23/07 @ 06:48

Comment from: cry4turtles [Member]

"I have seen people go from agnostics/atheists to religiously-delusional and back again where the transition to the religiously delusional state is brought on by amphetamine abuse. Get them clean and they are back to be agnostics/atheists."

I can't believe people use substances that do this to them. Why can't they just light up a frickin' joint! Then the only delusion they'll suffer from is that potato chips taste good on ice cream, harmless to everyone but their own tastebuds.

05/23/07 @ 07:58

Comment from: thegoodatheist [Member] · http://www.thegoodatheist.net

Why should we be surprised that a deeply religious and uneducated woman would believe that her equally uneducated and obviously violent husband believe that the Devil is responsible for any negative behavior on their part? It's far more difficult for this woman to accept the fact that her husband either suffers from a serious mental condition, or else is completely psychotic.

This is one of many problems of having faith; it leaves one vulnerable to Bronze Age explanations of homicidal and psychotic behavior. We can only hope that the police acted swiftly to help imprison another bad parent.

05/23/07 @ 18:48

Comment from: rdowell [Member]

this is just sadistic....I can't believe that there are people in the world who are STILL caught up in all of this superstitious poppycock.

05/25/07 @ 10:27

Comment from: Tortuca [Member] · http://garlinggauge.wordpress.com

Jesus. (pun intended)

People will use religion to justify anything.

Here are two more to make your blood boil:

http://garlinggauge.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/honor-murder/

http://garlinggauge.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/doug-giles-and-the-twelfth-commandment/

05/28/07 @ 16:36

Comment from: cree357 [Member]

This is too disturbing to even comment on.

05/31/07 @ 13:07

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