Man tells police he set fire because of Satan
LYNNWOOD -- Convinced that he was sharing a motel room with Satan, a man set his blankets ablaze in Lynnwood on Friday, according to what he told police.
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The man told police that he set the room on fire because Satan was in there, according to the affidavit. He reportedly said he wanted to protect "the good people" by setting the fire.
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Hotel officials told police the man had repeatedly called hotel employees the "anti-Christ" and "spawns of Satan."
Hotel management had asked the man to move out the day of the fire.
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He obviously suffers from a mental illness such as schizophrenia, that woefully combines his theist delusions with far more dangerous ones. This isn't fundie, it's just sad. I would classify this as fundie if the anonymous man was posting on RR breathlessly telling his fellow raptards about the night he did battle with Satan and his imps at the Marriott. Wait....at Motel 6.
Wait...doesn't Satan live in a Fire and Brimstone Hell? Wouldn't starting a fire just make him feel more welcome?
In all seriousness, get help dude.
I still stand behind, God is 4chan theory
Tells people to commit arson, kidnapping and everything else for teh lulz
Judge: How do you plead?
Defendant: Not guilty, your honor.
Prosecutor: Now, Mr. Man, would you explain to us why you were found outside yonder hotel what burned down last Friday holding a can of gasoline and a book of matches, cackling maniacally and yelling "burn, baby, burn!"?
Defendant: Yes, I can. You see, the devil made me do it.
Judge: Well, you can't argue with that logic! (slams gavel) Case dismissed.
While fundies aren't exactly the epitome of mental stability, they are considered legally sane. A person who sets his or her bed ablaze most certainly isn't. Fundies are nasty people who use religion justify their own hate and bigotry,and are a threat to any democratic society, while the mentally ill are only a threat to themselves and their immediate surroundings.
This definitely isn't fundie.
"Convinced that he was sharing a motel room with Satan, a man set his blankets ablaze in Lynnwood on Friday, according to what he told police. "
Wouldn't that just make Satan feel at home?
I know you don't have to be crazy to be religious, and you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but ever notice how often insanity & religious belief go hand in hand? Andrea Yates didn't drown all her children because she read The God Delusion.
A Darwin Award nominee, methinks.
Here is a Bible literalist fundie who posted some arse gravy here on FSTDT, and was told by a commenter to 'DIAF'. So...! X3
Now if only all delusional fundies could follow his example...! >:D
Then you'd have to build more nut farms to hold all the fundie loonies! Here - like that twat in Kiev, re. that lion* - is someone who (as a literalist ) puts the 'Die ' in Fundie. And much Fun and Lulz abounded, as all sane people point and laugh at him.
'Sane'. As in Atheist . 'Insane'. As in Fundie . Learn the difference. It could save your life. Literally . Troll/Poe/Nuts 4Life, I'm looking at you . Q.E. and D., bitch.
Like I say: one delusional person = insane . Two or more people sharing the same delusion = religion.
Being a non-superstitious, reason-based, forward-thinking, logical, sane Atheist. Feels good, man.
*- http://www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=12160&Page=1
There's a point being missed here. What is a man doing sharing a motel room with another man?
In Europe one pays for the room, not per occupant. So... If the same holds true in the US, then what was this other man, presumably a stranger, doing there?
Could it be the firebug invited another man in for 'whatever reason'. and then decided the 'devil' made him DO IT? and then he set the room on fire.
Curious! Normally one would share a room only with someone one knows quite well, and whom one trusts absolutely.
Actually Brendan, even if he had some mental illness, there is always the possibility that he used the religious card, assisted by his lawyer, to allege insanity in case that there is a victim because of the arson. In Europe, even if he was really a religious man, he would have never said that because even the Church itself would have discredit him.
@Berny
Insanity + meds = no problems
Insanity + religion = burnt buildings, dead people, damaged property...
I know which I'd prefer my crazies on.
So, it was the religion that drove him to commit the act, not the mental illness? If he didn't have religion he probably would have used a different justification for his act (aliens, ghosts, the voices in his head, whatever).
It always amazes me how much atheists (and anti-religionists) like to blame all of the world's ills on religion. Religion isn't the cause of society's problems. The vast multitude of religious people in the U.S. (where I'm from) don't do these things.
I've believed for awhile now that religion is a justification, not a cause. People seem to do things for their own reason (either good or bad), and then use religion to back them up. You could just as easily substitute patriotism or any other philosophy in place of religion and still have the same results, in my opinion.
This mong had better plead insanity, for the sake of the rest of normal*, decent society then (if he values his ringpiece in conventional jail, that is).
Because he's so far out of there (like Pluto), he doesn't know his arsonist from his elbow.
*- There are people with far worse psychological afflictions who don't just have a greater grasp of reality than all other fundies out there, they'd never so much as contemplate the notion of even thinking about doing what this nutbar has.
As a sufferer of mental illness (luckily, as an atheist, it allows me to dodge the religious delusions) I feel for this guy. It runs in my fam, my grandpa is schizophrenic and these episodes are neither funny or brought on by religious thought (as the delusions would have another base without it). I hope this man receives help. More likely he will be demonized and locked-up, though. It's a shame.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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