Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: God told me to rape and kill edition.

Just doing what he was told.

Just doing what he was told.

Meet Isaiah Kalebu. He’s a True Beliver™ of the truest kind. When his God tells him to do something, by golly you can bet he’ll get it done. Even when what his God tells him to do is to brutally rape and kill a lesbian couple:

“I was there . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: God told me to rape and kill edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: God told me to swim edition.

blind_faith_motivational_poster

God makes a lot of questionable demands of his followers. Demands like, “Hey, take your kid up on the mountain and sacrifice him to me!” Or “Hey, strip down to your trunks and swim to Liberty Island!”

The latter order was given to an unnamed 29-year-old man in New York city who ended up having . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: God told me to swim edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Man marries 107 women because God told him to.

Sometimes you have to wonder if God isn’t a bit of a perv. Why the hell else would he tall Nigerian Islamic faith healer Bello Maasaba to take on so many wives? Oh, and he’s fathered over 185 children too:

“I get a revelation from God telling me any woman I’m going to marry. If it wasn’t . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Man marries 107 women because God told him to.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Stabbing yourself in the hand edition.

jesus-facepalm

True Believers will do some crazy things to try and prove to an atheist that God is real. For example, during a recent “Ask an Atheist” event at Virginia Tech freshman student Alexander M. Huppert thought he had come up with an irrefrutable argument that God does exist:

Witnesses said Huppert stood near the table . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Stabbing yourself in the hand edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Nantucket exorcism edition.

Yet another child falls victim to a delusional parent:

NANTUCKET (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Police say a Nantucket woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter told a priest and hospital officials that God told her to push a rose down the girl’s throat to ward off the devil.

Documents filed in Nantucket District Court . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Nantucket exorcism edition.

Too Much Religion Will Make You Crazy: Thank God for the Japan Quake edition.

I really, really hope this is a Poe. I fear that it isn’t.

There seems to be some debate over whether TamTamPamela’s YouTube videos are sincere or some of the more convincing trolling you’ll see. Personally I’m not sure, but I’m leaning towards it being legit.

Especially given the outpouring of callous . . . → Read More: Too Much Religion Will Make You Crazy: Thank God for the Japan Quake edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Muslim Business Card of Death edition.

One leg up Christianity has over Islam is that most practitioners have long ago abandoned the prosecution of blasphemy laws whereas it’s still a serious crime in many Islamic nations. It doesn’t help when the authorities take a zero-tolerance approach to anything that could possibly be conceived as being blasphemous whether that was the intent . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Muslim Business Card of Death edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Daddy is the Devil edition.

Behold the power of True Belief and the harm it can cause:

Baby killed as family jumps from Paris window after ‘devil sighting’ – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A baby died when a family of 12 leapt from their second floor balcony in Paris claiming they were fleeing the devil.

Eight more were injured, some seriously, in the . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Daddy is the Devil edition.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition revisited.

Remember the entry I wrote back in January of this year about 88-year-old nutcase Harold Camping and his prediction that Jesus would return on May 21st of 2011? I mentioned that he had made an earlier prediction of the same sort for 1994 which, if you’ve been paying attention, didn’t come to pass. I also . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition revisited.

Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Spiritual Molester Edition.

It’s not just the Christians who allow their faith to get in the way of common sense and critical thinking. Sometimes it’s the more nebulously defined crystal huggers.

Take for example the following case of a woman who invited what she believed to be a female spiritualist into her home to “cleanse” herself and her . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: Spiritual Molester Edition.