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Wed 7 Apr, 2004 06:09 am
A jailed man accused of killing and cutting out the hearts of his son, estranged wife and her daughter plucked out his own eye and then quoted from the Bible, officials in Sherman, Texas, said Tuesday.
Andre L. Thomas was in a county jail cell Friday night when he tore his eye out of its socket with his hands, said Grayson County Sheriff Keith Gary.
Thomas, 21, then quoted the verse Mark 9:47: "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell."
Thomas was taken to a hospital and the eyeball was put on ice, but it couldn't be reattached. He is now being held in restraints at the jail, the sheriff said.
Thomas is accused in the March 26 stabbing deaths of his 4-year-old son, his 20-year-old estranged wife and her 1-year-old daughter. All the victims' hearts were cut out; two were found at Andre Thomas' house. He turned himself in and was charged with one count of capital murder.
A judge ruled Monday that Thomas will be evaluated by a mental health
What is it about Texans and this penchant for not just killing their kids, but doing it brutally? I heard another story about a mom who copped an insanity plea after stoning two of her kids to death.
These folks take their religion a bit too seriously, I guess...
D'art, I'm entirely agnostic but I still find that statement rather disturbing. There are people who are insane who get ideas from the Bible (or Heavy Metal, or whatever), not that religious people are taking their religion too seriously.
Dys, how awful.
D'artagnan wrote:What is it about Texans and this penchant for not just killing their kids, but doing it brutally? ...
Yeah, it's TEXANS. (Sheesh!)
Lighten up Scrat, I was generalizing for comic effect. In Washington, we produce serial killers...
D'artagnan wrote:Lighten up Scrat, I was generalizing for comic effect. In Washington, we produce serial killers...
Sorry! It is easy to miss it when someone is trying to be funny. No offense intended!
There are a lot of killings in the news lately in regard to: "God told me to do it."
so many sick people.
All I can say is there are what I call industrial churches down here. They are huge and some even have neon signs that are, I think, supposed to spread the Word. They seem like driving hazards to me.
It is not uncommon to see people, coupels and families, praying before they eat in public resturants.
You have to always remember Tejas is really, really a whole other country.
D'artagnan wrote:Lighten up Scrat, I was generalizing for comic effect. In Washington, we produce serial killers...
Here I thought us midwesterners held the patent on producing serial killers.
JoanneDorel wrote:It is not uncommon to see people, coupels and families, praying before they eat in public resturants.
Say it isn't so! You mean people are PRAYING IN PUBLIC???!!! Don't the police stop them or something?
Why praying in public is fine with me It is just that those same devotees end up getting messages from god to stone there children to death.
JoanneDorel wrote:Why praying in public is fine with me It is just that those same devotees end up getting messages from god to stone there children to death.
Really? Thank God you told me! All this time when I'd say grace before a meal in public I had no idea it was increasing the likelihood that I would go mental and slaughter my family.
Thanks for your incredibly helpful, insightful comments. (And by "helpful" and "insightful" I mean
bigoted and
absurd.)
Someone is a touchy mood today, Joanne. We must tiptoe carefully...
Its OK D'art, I know who I am and what I am about and if omeone wants to call me a bigot I can take it and just chalk it up to industrial religious attitude.
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean "industrial disease"
Yep, us Texans can be pretty sorry. Of course we can produce Lloyd Bensons and Farah Fawcets too.
JoanneDorel wrote:Its OK D'art, I know who I am and what I am about and if omeone wants to call me a bigot I can take it and just chalk it up to industrial religious attitude.
You can chalk it up to whatever you want, but as with others you have no idea who I am. I am not a terribly religious person, but I recognize the ignorance in your comments about those who are.
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