Monday, April 5, 2004

Idioteque

Deanna Laney faces two murder counts for using stones to kill her two sons 6 y.o. Luke and 8 y.o. Joshua. Her 14 month old son Aaron was stoned but he survived a skull fracture. Police discovered that she smashed the skulls of the two sons who died.  

The woman claims that God instructed her to do this. Her lawyer, whose building an insanity case, asks: "Does she follow what she believes to be God's will or does she turn her back on her God."

The prosecutors say she knew right from wrong.  
The night she attacked her sons, Laney called 911 and said "I killed my boys." Her husband says he thought she was changing a diaper when she attacked her 14 month old. He has vision problems. Experts say she had 4 previous psychotic episodes.

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Another reason to hate religion.

And I think how you can plead "insanity" to killing your kids and probably get away with it is sad and unfair. She should get life in jail as far as I am concerned. I don't care what you say. You know God doesn't tell he shit, and you know killing your own life and blood is wrong. If you can do it once, you can do it again. And again. And again. What is the difference--what difference is there? There is no difference.

She called 911 right after she killed her kids. That's just it. That's so "insanity" I can't believe it. Being insane is being able to know you probably did something wrong, and then calling the police, as if you're trying to act like you accept what you did. "Oh, hi, I just killed my kids--no big deal, no, not at all--I just thought you'd want to know. Oh, and God told me to do it. By His will I was able to do this. I only do what my God says. Jesus died on the cross so I could kill my kids." That's "insanity." The woman knows she did something wrong, and called the authorties, but she's in court now and using this case to plead she was "insane" while she killed her kids--that she was mentally unaware at the time.

And the irony stings like iron teeth to my knees.

"God made me do this!" That's all God's good for it seems. These days, it's always, "God made me do it!" This woman's just using God to blame for something she did. She needs to get real with herself and understand she's a murderer. There's a murderer in all of us, but this woman's is physically manifested.

God's so omniscient and omnipotent that he's used as something to lean on in any case. Hope--death--killing your kids. What's the difference anymore? Might as well blame him for how I'm tired right now too.

All this is is another reason to hate religion. People don't even use religion for what it's meant. They simply use it as their hope, their thing to lean on. They don't even believe. They act like they do but they don't.

I think God probably is the one who told this woman to kill her kids. I mean, that's just how God is, isn't it?

I honestly don't believe, if there is a God, that he's "judicious." If you ask me, God's a self-serving twit.
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