Judas Priest is just glad they never released that eye-gouging song..

So, a man in Texas was in county jail for cutting out the hearts of his son, estranged wife & her daughter and ends up gouging his eye of its socket with his bare hands.

Why did he do it? Because the Bible told him to - "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." Mark 9:47

(Quick tangent: The article does not say whether or not the man, Andre Thomas, had a cellmate, but imagine if he did. Imagine you're sitting in that jail cell waiting for your arraignment and your bunkmate rips his bloody eye right out of his head with his bare hands. How's that for a 'Scared Straight' program?)

The part of the whole affair that currently bothers me is, given the fellow's inspirational source material, you just know the religious right would acknowledge the man's obvious psychological problems and shrug off any implications of fault on the Bible's part. That verse was not meant to be taken literally because, well, it's not a passage that furthers their social agendas.

But if Mr. One-Eyed Thomas had decided to mess with his depth perception due to a heavy metal song or a Miramax film, well, we would be knee-deep in their propaganda efforts by now. The man's psych issues would just become a footnote and they'd be slinging mud at the idolaters.

But forget about all that, we've got Janet Jackson's boob to rail against. One body part at a time, people.

Have a happy Holy Week.

wojr

Labels: News, Religion, Snide Remarks

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