(He is encouraging people who her voices in their heads (the mentally ill) to listen to them.)

Mike Winger, a Christian preacher who runs a giant online ministry, recently said believers should listen to the voices in their heads if they believe God is telling them to kill someone.

It was a reference to the biblical story of Abraham, who is told by God in Genesis 22 to kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice. At the last possible second, God says, “Just kidding!” and everyone has a good laugh. The moral of the story, some say, is that we’re supposed to obey God even when it doesn’t make sense because that’s the sort of obedience God demands. (Even though a more honest assessment would focus on the cruelty of God in that situation.)

On his YouTube show recently, Winger was asked by a viewer (at 1:28:45) what he thought about murderers who say God “made them do it”? Instead of dismissing all those killers as kooks, because God doesn’t actually speak to them, Winger took the opposite approach, saying it was always wise to listen to God… then included a caveat saying God probably wouldn’t ask you to kill anyone, as if that makes everything better. ...