Insanity - The dictionary describes it as a relatively
permanent disorder of the mind, state or condition of being insane; a defect of
reason as a result of mental illness, such that according to the law, [the
defendant] does not know what he or she is doing or that it is wrong.
Keep that in mind when you read the Opinion column in the
Orlando Sentinel on February 9, 2016 written by Pat McFarland, a member of the
Orlando Sentinel Advisory Board. Her letter is titled “Learn to Recognize Insanity
and Face your Fears with Faith”. What she is suggesting is facing insanity with
another form of insanity.
After listing several issues that reflect insanity on the
part of the perpetrators…from the woman in Las Vegas who used her car to drive
over and kill people on the city's sidewalk, more soldiers killed in Afghanistan, and
Climate Change denial to a 12 year old being gunned down by Cleveland Ohio police,
a retched wealthy teen who’s affluence blinded him to right from wrong as
he killed four people, spending more to incarcerate people than educate them,
and Donald Trump’s latest blathering…she goes completely off the track by then
quoting from the bible as a stab at Trump. Quoting from a book that promotes
genocide (you know...the flood, the destruction of the Amalekites and Midianites, etc.), slavery,
talking serpents and donkeys, and a blood sacrifice as an effective method of salvation is
not just wrong, it is delusional, a mental illness, and it defends a being who appears to not know right from wrong.
How could Ms.McFarland have such a firm grip on the baffling events (or as she calls them, the madhouse, where disordered minds exist…an insane asylum) happening around the
world, and then quote from one of the most baffling and insane books ever
written as a way to face down her fears over what all the insanity represents? She claims she is “helped by the bountiful love and compassion that God allows
all of us to receive daily”. How does she know just WHERE that comes from? She indicates it’s the same God whose “bountiful
love” created a place called hell to send us to if we don’t love him back enough,
a compassionate God who, according to the Genesis account of Noah and the
flood, drowned virtually EVERY LIVING THING in the world…toddlers and babies,
all the animals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, even the plants. What did any
or all of those do to offend God? Only an absolute lunatic with a complete defect
in reasoning…the very definition of insanity…could do that. Yet, it's that very
same vile monster that Ms. McFarland says is filled with “bountiful love” for
us. By threatening us with hell? That’s what a terrorist does. Do as I say or
I’ll throw you into a lake of fire and leave you there FOREVER! By allowing the
torture, slaughter and supposed death of his son in order to forgive us for
being exactly as He designed us? Why resort to this kind of insanity when he
could just forgive us. Or, when Adam and Eve are in the garden, don’t put the
tree you don’t want them to touch where they can find it? How hard would that
have been, especially given God KNEW what was going to happen but allowed it
anyway, knowing 99.99999999...% of all the people who ever existed will end up in hell?
That sounds like someone with a permanent mental disorder. It’s insanity on a
universal scale. And it can all be laid at the feet of the being Pat McFarland
says we should call on in order to face our fears. That beast sounds like
something to fear far more than the stupidly insane things people do every day
on this planet.
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