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Elizabeth Smart, who was snatched from her bedroom almost a decade ago, revealed to an audience some of the horrific details about her ordeal last night.
Miss Smart was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah when she was 14 years old. She cried as she told members of a Rotary Club about the night Brian David Mitchell took her at knifepoint.
It was the first time Miss Smart, now 24, has spoken in public about the graphic details of her nine months in captivity at the hands of Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee.
'He went straight from marrying me... to raping me': Elizabeth Smart speaks publicly about her rapist and religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell | Mail Online
Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:03 AM EST
Article Source: the Mail online
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Religious fanaticism is an early warning sign of mental degradation. Religion's absurd beliefs are counterintuitive to commonsense, do not make for good neighbors or a good conscience.
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#1 - Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:15 AM ESTThe article doesn't make it clear that religion is involved. It says this took place in Utah. So are you thinking that they were Mormons. If they are Mormons, which commandment of Mormonism are they following that makes this a sign of mental degradation?
Rank, the story is well-known, whether this article discusses all the details or not. The man who abducted Miss Smart felt that he had a specific message from God and was a religious fanatic. Not any particular faith, but his own 'faith'.
I don't think King Dave's comment was aimed at Mormon's particularly. I do think that religion is not one of absurb beliefs-- and, if so, then billions of the world's people are absurb. Christianity is just one form of the many religions practiced all over the world. Fanaticism, be it about religion, political doctrine, or chocolate-- that may be the characteristic of one that is mentally imbalanced.
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