[atlaw]

Andrea Yates killed her children because God told her to.

"Therefore killing [her children] was good."

[Greg F]

The idea that Christianity is so simple that it can be reduced to a single syllogism is silly and I wasn’t saying that it can be. I was just showing the different premises of ahayes and myself.

1 John 4

Test the Spirits

1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I think also that the scriptures related to community and looking to others as well as yourself, to stay in God’s word, to pray, and the like can save people from doing terrible things.

Also, I can’t be sure that Yates really believed that God told her anything or whether it was a legal ruse, or whether she was touched not by God but by evil, etc.

[ahayes]

"Therefore killing [her children] was good."

As long as she's a Canaanite, I guess so. :-P