Re: Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter

On Apr 23, 8:46 pm, "Michael Snyder" <msny...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bo Raxo" <crimenewscen...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Apr 23, 12:00 pm, "tinydancer" <tinydancer...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Does it strike you that this trial was over awefully quickly?
I was stunned when I heard that there even *was* a verdict.

It did seem quick. The speed of the verdict didn't bother me,
though,
because I was so sure it was going to be "guilty of [premeditated]
murder."
I thought the Defense's "rationale" was ludicrous, and that nobody
would
fall for it. Silly me!

Maybe in Tennessee juries don't have so much experience
with the abuse-excuse.

Or maybe in Tennessee juries are very familiar with the
non-denominational
*Churches of Christ* and their beliefs and indoctrinations.

Copied from a blog I was reading last week:

Some commenters wondered why Ms. Winkler just didn't up and leave if she
was
being abused. As my wife said this morning when we were watching the
news..'
if you don't understand why she didn't leave, you don't understand
southern
church of Christ culture'. Divorce is still a big taboo. The only '
scriptural' reason for divorce is adultry.
snip

If they are such terrific believers in the Bible, then the last time I
checked Leviticus the penalty for adultery wasn't divorce, it was
death. I don't think there is any mention of divorce in the Bible:
the concept didn't exist when those fables were being assembled. But
as usual, the Bible thumpers ignore those pesky little contradictions.

And last I checked, the Bible had this pesky little thing called
a commandment, that went something like "Thou shalt not kill".

Seems to me it was somewhere AHEAD of the one about
committing adultery.

Wonder if there was a reason for that?

The whole thing is riddled with contradictions. Jesus was born in
Nazareth in one book, Bethleham in another. Mary's husband in a
descendant of a line tracing back to an ancient Jewish king with 29
generations of predecessors listed in one book, forty-some in another,
and almost no overlap between the two lists. Which is only tossed in
to be compatible with the Jewish legends that a messiah would come
along descended from David, but then he isn't Jesus' father anyway
because the virgin birth myth was a big feature of many pagan
religions at the time.

God is omniscient and can see every event that will ever occur, but
omnipotent and therefore can change what will occur, but if He's
omniscient then wouldn't he foresee what He was going to change, but
then if He foresees that he's going to do that anyway it isn't really
a change, so then God has no free will and isn't omnipotent -
omniscience and omnipotence are mutually exclusive powers if one
applied a modicum of logic.

And about a hundred other contradictions. That's even before you get
to the just-plain-impossible: repopulating the earth from one pair of
each animal, popping out of the grave after being dead three days, and
so forth. Christianity would have been a dead forgotten sect more
than a milleneum ago if the Emperor Constantine hadn't elevated it
from niche sect to official state doctrine, that accident of history
is the only reason the fundies of the Americas are thumping a medieval
translation of those old fables.


Bo Raxo






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