(May 25, 2011 at 4:29 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/2011...nsequences
Failed doomsday prophecies have real deadly consequences
Quote:A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard Camping's message, and became concerned that her daughters would suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with a box cutter. She then tried to kill herself, though police arrested Benedetto and all three survived.
Others were not so lucky. An elderly man in Taiwan reportedly killed himself on May 5 ahead of the Rapture by jumping out of a building. He had heard that doomsday was imminent, and had taken recent earthquakes and tsunamis as early warning signs.
I'm just curios... why do they not make a law to punish the 'prophets' that preach the date of the end of the world, after it is clear that it did not happen? (after, because there needs to be a good justification)
I mean, something like prison for life, death sentence, something. Think about how much evil these guys do, and for their deceit, they are not punished at all! On the other hand, they gather lots of money from the feeble minded; perhaps there are also people that sell their houses and give him the money or something, because the end of the world is coming!! You know, if deceiving the population had been punished, and punished harshly, then few would have dared doing something like that again. I do believe that people should have "freedom of speech", but within some limits!