Well that'll do it I suppose
Christian Teacher Ended Her Husband’s Porn Habit… By Shooting Him Dead
[friendlyatheist.patheos.com]
We are missing the point here.... Why was he watching porn to begin with? There are plenty of reasons why and likely government oppression could be one of them. If your wife is a religious freak and won't do anything because it's a sin, and you cannot find a titi bar as a minimum in your comunity and can't go to a massage parlor because it's a police sting operation then what a hell is that poor Joe to do???????? ( IamSurprised this is the "one" isolated case we get to know about )
Somehow this happening in Arkansas is no big surprise and somehow I don't think the devil made him do it or God made her kill him. I can share a personal experience related to this. My evangelical sister and her also, but maybe not as equally religious hubby almost came to breaking up many years ago after he developed an online porn addiction, which she discovered when he got caught using his workplace computer for it at his government job, which he got fired from after being caught by the employer. I'm guessing his being caught was more a measure of the degree of his addiction rather than how stupid my brother-in-law was to try doing that on a govt. work computer after it was common practice by then for employers to have zero tolerance and constant monitoring for that kind of misuse of govt. computers by employees.
They did not divorce, but my sister did consult my father, a judge, about her options concerning divorcing her hubby and she did share about this with all of her siblings. But in the end she chose to force him into counselling with her and getting help for his own issues. What's funny is that both of them had been critical of me for my employment problems around that time in my life and had been unsupportive, but after my brother-in-law got rightly fired from his job, he was out of work less than a couple weeks before his work friends found him a similar, equally-paying govt. job in their same city. And I got flack from them both for losing a job when the employer closed my location and I was out of work for 6 months while I looked for work. I guess it all depends on who you are and who you know as to how innocent and worthy you are in those situations........
Shit, If I were him and had to wake up every morning to a face like hers I'd be looking at porn as well.
Since one of the women here thought your comment was funny, I will come out and admit I was thinking that too, even if I didn't post it.
I love the witty writing, especially the conclusion. Too funny!
I just love how she shot him in the leg and then decided to fire a warning shot - that hit him in the head. Some people.
Did the article say that? Maybe I missed something, I thought it said she shot him only in the head, no other shot.
@TomMcGiverin probably a different article about the same thing. I read about it a day before it hit the site, I think.
She didn't know the gun was loaded.
This is the most stupid use of violence and religion...
I bet that now she wishes that she should just have divorced him.
Well, in my opinion, divorce is costly, but less costly than murder is for most people who do it. Maybe she would have got a walk if her lawyer got a jury trial and stacked the jury with other female Bible-thumpers. Something like that kind of worked for OJ with race instead of religion, but there were other factors in that as well. Jus'sayin'. Sounds like her lawyer may have instead asked for a bench trial and the judge turned out to not be as much of a Bible-thumper as her. Or maybe the article was only saying what the judge gave her for the sentence and not the verdict.
Oh, the devil was in the shed alright and that devil shot her husband.
WWJD
What would a Jedi do?
We Want Jelly Donuts!
Since this society still nominally / theoretically respects the rule of law (at least for the hoi polli), you don't get to kill people who affront you. Even if god allegedly does get to do that.
But it's probably only a matter of time before this rule gets bent more and more often.
You only get to do it if you're oil-rich and also buy massive amounts of weapons and nuclear tech.
You do get to kill people who affront you if you can somehow claim you felt they threatened you and you had to "stand your ground" to protect yourself. For some reason calling the cops and/or walking away from a confrontation seem to have fallen out of favor as a conflict resolution technique.