Indiana dad arrested for allegedly biting 'ungrateful' newborn after nurses overheard him call baby 'evil'

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[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (22 children)

The joys of Christianity. You get to think your baby is "evil".

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

This is pretty much constant across all cultures.

[–]dicknipples 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Not sure about evil babies or snacking on them, but their imporance is apparent in many representations of fertility deities. Abrahamic religion was the first to remove God from earth and put him only in the heavens (and no earthly representative except for 30 years with that one chap who asked us all to be nice to one another).

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's not true. There were abstract deities all over the middle east. And in Europe Jupiter literally means sky father.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Polytheistic religions have had sky gods, but generally their gods were on Earth, at mountaintops &c. Abrahamic tradition put their only god in the heavens, and the spaceman said: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." Hence Christians, Muslims and Jews have not had a habit of worthipping Nature or the earth. Christians were previously more interested in Mother Nature before the removal of the Marian worship tradition in the late 15th century.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The matrix "Mother Nature" is obviously evil, of course you shouldn't worship it. But if anything today's Christians worship it far above God, and anyone who doesn't is immediately labeled "gnostic" and dismissed as a hopeless heretic.

I learned about Plato's cave recently. It accurately portrays the unbelievable cognitive dissonance and denial people have regarding this subject.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Mother Nature" is obviously evil, of course you shouldn't worship it. But if anything today's Christians worship it far above God,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. We don't agree, though perhaps because there are so many interpretations of Christianity. And - before the 18th century - mother nature was God for many Christians. We agree on Plato.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Atheists don't get evil babies.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

My parents are both atheists.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I stand corrected

[–]Rah 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are right, if only everyone converted to judaism and just let the rabbi suck the baby mangled dick after cutting it with their grown sharpened nails and give it herpes.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I think your fedora is on too tight

[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Paranoid schizophrenia is an unpleasant condition. And maybe if he were an atheist, he might have formed the belief that the government or aliens has swapped his baby for a surveillance device.

But with a Christian world view, the step is shorter and more complete. The baby is evil by some demonic or satanic influence. He now has his justifications for the physical abuse of the infant.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You really think he's schizophrenic? I just figured he was a lazy man-child.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That would be my first guess. It's likely the case if he genuinely believes that his child is evil, as he was overheard saying.

But even an psychologist wouldn't diagnose someone based on a newspaper article, and my background is mathematics.

It's certainly plausible that he's a lazy man-child.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You felt OK diagnosing him as a Christian, though.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm confident of that.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But isn't that in itself a demonic act?

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which act?

Although to be fair, we're probably going to have different opinions on that, an matter which act we're talking about, since I don't really go in for demons.

[–]ihaveyourdress 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You mean schizophrenia.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interacting with a belief in evil.