"Revealed" Religions and Mental Illness

Mental health is a very important and required element for a productive, progressive and happy life. The false claims made by the various "revealed" religions, especially when introduced at an early age, cause much mental anguish, religious delusions and pain to individuals which then has a great potential to have a negative effect on society in general. For example, the case of Andrea Yates who murdered her five little children (pictured at left) because she thought Satan had possessed her and was soon going to possess her children. In her twisted Bible based mind, if she murdered her children before "the age of accountability" they would all go to heaven. She thought she'd be executed for the murders and Satan would die with her.

In a similar case which stinks of the Bible story of God telling Abraham to kill his son (Genesis 22:1-12), Deanna Laney (pictured at left in her mug shot and still covered in the blood of her innocent and helpless children) murdered two of her little boys by stoning them to death and then severely handicapped her third little boy. She did this because she thought God wanted her to do it to "prove her complete and unconditional faith in Him." Of course, God never told Abraham or Mrs. Laney or anyone else to murder their children! THE BIBLE IS WRONG!!! Our God-given reason tells us that the Bible is wrong! Unfortunately, the billions of people who are currently suffering from "revealed" religion put the teachings of the men who wrote the Bible before God's gift to them of innate reason.

On April 4, 2004 a jury in Texas found Laney not guilty by reason of insanity. This verdict strongly suggests that to believe the horrific stories of the Bible the believer is flirting with insanity. Laney has subsequently been deemed sane and was released from court-ordered hospitalization. One of the stipulations of her release is that she does not have any unsupervised contact with children.

Another child victim of religious delusion is Barrett Walsh (pictured at left). Two-year-old Barrett was murdered by hanging by his Christian mother, Corie Walsh. She hanged him from a basement rafter on September 1, 2026. She told investigators the reason she did this ungodly, unnatural and irreversible fear-based act was because Barrett was "the devil and the anti-Christ."

If people realized the reality that the Bible is NOT the Word of God, these innocent, beautiful, priceless and helpless children would still be alive today. People need to realize the truth to this statement made by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason:

"It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a Word of God can unite. The Creation speaks a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God."