Now we have another story of murder in which some religious belief was given as the cause. A 12-year-old girl in Florida killed her father, at her mother’s command she states, and the mother goes on to explain that it had to be done as thanks to the Lord for the recovery of the husband who had been suffering with paralysis.
Why offer thanks for the recovery of the man and then go right ahead and kill him? This case recalls another, that of young McDowell who recently admitted that he killed his parents and two sisters, because they opposed him in some “belief.” He killed the sisters first and then on the anniversary of their death felt that he must kill someone else to atone for the first murders.
These religious fanatics are getting about as numerous as the “insane” murderers. The insanity stuff is about played out and it looks like this “religious belief” stuff is going to take its place. There is no excuse for either and neither is an excuse, that is in most cases.
From the editorial page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 15, 1924, J.R. Sherrill, editor and publisher, and W.M. Sherrill, associate editor.
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