Another Religion induced Killing Spree

[LondonReign2]

A desperate and frustrated Terry Ratzmann would seek out marriageable women during one eight-day period every year in which single members of his Living Church of God had the best chance to date, sometimes driving from city to city in vain attempts to find a match, a member of Ratzmann's Milwaukee area congregation said Tuesday.

Because local congregations are small - the Milwaukee-area group has about 80 members - dating other church members effectively is limited to the "Festival of Tabernacles," when singles can meet each other, she said. Dating non-church members is discouraged.

It was well-known in the local congregation that Ratzmann suffered from depression, Frazier said. But she said church teachings strongly discourage members from consulting with psychiatrists or other therapists to deal with emotional problems.

The church similarly frowns on the use of mood-altering medications, especially more powerful anti-psychotic drugs, said Frazier, believing they "weaken your mind" and make one "susceptible to demons," she said.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/mar05/309994.asp

[displacedtexan]

1. That church is growing their own spree killers.

don't date outside the church.

Don't turn to science to help yourself.

And then, there was that whole sermon about supporting George W.'s Social Security destruction element.

[BrainRants]

2. Instead of turning to science, they should turn to WEAPONS!

Nice logic!

Jesse Ventura had it right when he said "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers"

[Guaranteed]

3. As is any other group wherein the people don't really care about each

other.

Cliques, religions, gangs, etc.

[leftofthedial]

4. what a sick doctrine

It's a factory.

You'd have to be a wack job to fall for that bullshit in the first place.

Wack job in--stressed-out, frustrated, angry wack job out.

[HereSince1628]

5. Link to Ratzmann's website

This seems to be the website referred to in the article.

http://my.execpc.com/~traven/index.htm


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[anarchy1999]

6. Holy Shite! What a frightening bunch of Whack Jobs and doctrine to

believe! They make the "moonies" look almost sane. Damn!

"Festival of Tabernacles"!

Unbelievable, just mind boggling BS!

Please would some friendly alien just come and beam me up now? I can't take much more of this insanity here on Planet Earth, USA.

[hfojvt]

7. I do not have all that much faith in those drugs either

Psychiatry seems like as much of a religion as Christianity, only they believe in their pills. "He's suffering from depression, which is caused by a chemical imbalance." That is the Holy Writ of psychiatry, and of the big pharmaceutical companies too. JHC! Maybe he is suffering from depression because he can't get laid and is on a sh*tty career path. I think those pills are a crutch too, and one that often leads to suicide or other violence.
And no I do not think the church was responsible for his lack of a love life. Probably he struck out everywhere. As far as dating outside of his religion, would you expect a Democrat to date a Repuke?

[leftynyc]

10. I agree that these drugs are handed out far too frequently

I have a good friend in Georgia who has been on Prozac for over 5 years - it seemed like a long time so I asked if her psychiatrist had spoken to her about it and that's when I found out it was prescribed by her GP!!! No therapy, not even a referral. The whole thing seems odd to me and just a way to make the drug companies richer.

[LondonReign2]

8. Kick

n/t

[MsTryska]

9. I find this whole thing rather ironic....

considerign the guy was about to be laid off from his job, and had stormed out of a sermon just a few weeks before because it was about how "it's your own damn fault when bad things happen to you".

perhaps it was his backlash against the backlash against liberals and their sound economic policies.