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dpareja:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42741049

A couple in California have been charged with the torture of their thirteen children, after one escaped and alerted authorities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thirteen-siblings-found-chained-starving-california-home-say/

Apparently, the parents were "deeply religious".

Religion not only makes good people do evil things, but it also makes evil people do truly horrific things.

Art Vandelay:

--- Quote from: dpareja on January 19, 2018, 03:12:32 am ---Apparently, the parents were "deeply religious".

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Somehow, I am not the least bit surprised.

niam2023:
Well, to use a certain shout out, with what they did I wouldn't be surprised if they were practicing Word Bearers!

These two are...well, they're sick. I recognize sickness - and in some, it brings attraction to a faith.

This sickness brings them to justify their cruelest impulses with the favors of the divine. They had to be cruel, you see, to remain in the favor of their divine lord. They're never the head, the most powerful, they cast themselves as servants, to justify this sick obsession to themselves - for if they are just doing their work as a servant, what can they be accused of?

Tolpuddle Martyr:
I hear you niam, but might it be more parsimonious to suggest they just get their jollies off hurting kids?

I mean all that religious gunk serves a purpose, it makes them think "hey maybe I'm not just doing this because I'm a sick fuck who does this to get my rocks off, maybe I'm doing this because the line manager of a thousand billion galaxies said so-so it's really important."

dpareja:

--- Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on January 19, 2018, 07:44:15 am ---I hear you niam, but might it be more parsimonious to suggest they just get their jollies off hurting kids?

I mean all that religious gunk serves a purpose, it makes them think "hey maybe I'm not just doing this because I'm a sick fuck who does this to get my rocks off, maybe I'm doing this because the line manager of a thousand billion galaxies said so-so it's really important."

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That's why I said religion makes evil people do horrific things.

EDIT: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turpin-torture-background-1.4494165

Details on what they did. It's not a pleasant read.

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