RE: Stupid things religious people say
Yesterday at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: Yesterday at 9:44 am by Fake Messiah.)
Another one talks to God, although it seems that other Christians don't believe him. For some reason it's not as convincing as "God told me he wants you to buy me a new jet," or "God told me he wants you to vote for Trump," or "God told me that he hates gay marriage" or "God told me to kill my son."
Quote:‘God … told him to’: Rexburg man charged with arson for lighting parents’ house on fire
REXBURG — A 22-year-old man is facing an arson charge after police say he lit multiple fires in a home because he believed God asked him to.
Preston Blaine Rossberg is charged with one felony count of first-degree arson, which carries the possible punishment of up to 25 years in prison or a fine of up to $100,000.
According to court documents, on May 9, officers with the Rexburg Police Department received a call from a home in the 100 block of Rosewood Drive; the caller identified himself as Rossberg.
Rossberg told dispatch that “he lit his house on fire because God had told him to,” the police booking affidavit states.
When police officers arrived at the home, they located Rossberg and detained him. The officers say he also told them that he started the fire because “God had told him to.”
Police say Rossberg informed them that the house belonged to his parents, who were out of state at the time.
The officers said they took Rossberg to Behavioral Health Center for a mental evaluation, and a warrant for his arrest was obtained upon his release.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2026/07/go...e-on-fire/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
