New York teen dies after hours-long beating at church

[YogiNole]

Sounds like a family counseling session for the ages, one you can tell your grandkids about

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/15/us-usa-new-york-church-beating-idUSKCN0S82NA20151015

A New York couple was charged with manslaughter in the death of their 19-year-old son after allegedly beating him for hours during a family counseling session inside the "sanctuary room" of an upstate Christian church, police said on Wednesday.

In addition, four of the couple's fellow parishioners were charged with assaulting the teenager's younger brother on Sunday at the Word of Life Church in Chadwicks, New York, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Syracuse.

"Both brothers were continually subjected to physical punishment over the course of several hours in the hopes that each would confess to prior sins and ask for forgiveness," Michael Inserra, chief of the New Hartford Police, said at a news conference.

 

[TexaNole]

"The older brother, Lucas Leonard, died on Monday afternoon after being driven to a hospital by family members, who falsely told doctors the teenager had suffered a gunshot wound, police said."

Couldn't at least come up with, "Uh, he got in a bar fight...?" I know not all med schools are Harvard or whatever, but a graduate of just about every one of 'em's gonna be able to count the number of holes and realize there isn't a spare one.

 

[itsjustme0770]

Makes you want to finally concede that there is as great a chance that there is an old man in the sky as there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't it?

 

[CC0492]

Churches are cults.

 

[seminole97]

I forget which book of the new testament has the verse where Jesus beat a kid to death...

 

[itsjustme0770]

I forget which book of the new testament has the verse where Jesus beat a kid to death...

I think you are missing the point. An omnipotent being permits such a thing to occur in "his" house? Either "he" is pure evil or doesn't exist. The simplest answer is almost always the right one.

 

[NDallasRuss]

I'm going to forward this article to my daughter as a reminder of just how good she's got it.

 

[Fijimn]

I forget which book of the new testament has the verse where Jesus beat a kid to death...

Not there. All the good sociopathic family killing happens in the Old Testament...before God mellowed out.

 

[DFSNOLE]

I've allowed some threads that had good discussion about religion. This isn't one of those.