May 15, 2003 5:52 AM

I don't know what voices you may be hearing, but they're not God

Sheriff: Texas woman says God told her to kill sons

Sometimes I wonder if we as a society have lost our standard of reasonableness. Are we unable to recognize when an impulse, whatever the apparent source, is simply an inhuman and/or unreasonable one? Can we not recognize that a benevolent God simply does not command mothers to kill their children? If that is your version of God, I would submit that you probably slept through most of your Sunday School classes. Either that, or you've been successfully brainwashed by people for whom religion is but a means to effectively control a profoundly weakened psyche.

I'm a Buddhist, so my current knowledge of Christian dogma may not be up to standard. Still, I was raised Lutheran, and I don't remember killing one's children being even a remotely available option. Even Abraham didn't have to follow through. Think about it for a second. If God can command a mother to kill her children, why does God restrict Himself to merely the grotesque and homocidal? Surely there are other ways that God could command a demonstration of one's devotion to Him- feed the hungry, treat the sick, clothe the poor, take out the garbage? Why does murdering one's children seem to be the delusion of choice?

I have some decidedly mixed feelings about the death penalty- particularly as the art is practiced in the Great State of Texas. Nonetheless, if ever a crime would qualify one to be euthanized, killing your children would seem to be it. Yes, I understand that this woman may well be mentally unstable (as if anyone who would kill their children could be anything BUT mentally unstable), but she had best be prepared to meet her Maker. You can't beat your children to death with a rock and feign surprise when you are sentenced to depart Huntsville feet first.

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