Outchurched

In Texas, you’re sane if Satan orders you, but insane if you’re following God’s Orders?

The Texas insanity-defense law requires that a delusional person acting under “orders” from God be judged not guilty by reason of insanity, but that a delusional person acting under “orders” from Satan be considered sane, according to prominent forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz (according to a June USA Today story). Thus, Dietz believed that Andrea Yates (at press time being retried in Houston) knew that drowning her kids upon command of someone “without moral authority” (such as Satan) was wrong and thus that she did not qualify for insanity-law protection. Dietz later concluded the opposite in another Texas child-killing case because God had supposedly assured that mother that her kids would be better off dead. [USA Today, 6-20-06]

News of the Weird, Indeed!

So, let’s say a prominent politician followed “orders” from God to invade a country… that’d mean the prominent politician is insane? Ok, I guess I would have to agree in this instance.

How are people who take orders from people who are following Direct Orders from God to be considered? They’re following someone who is insane, are they not?

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