British atheist has proslytizing Christian removed from cell

Ladewig

I lost an avatar bet.
Ladewig
Joined
Dec 4, 2001
Messages
28,828
What kind of a Christian would commit crimes anyway?

(I am always bemused at stories of christian/muslim/whatever convicts who have oh so precious beliefs that must be listened to... if they were really that sincere in their beliefs then I doubt they would have committed crime in the first place)
 
quadraginta said:
Geez. The guy is only a self-confessed multiple rapist. There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment.

I think it's a tough call. Maybe they should just put him in solitary with a 24/7 Barry Manilow feed.
Click to expand...

I hear Christian rock music is really good these days.
 
I think the guy had every right to complain based on this snippet.

He said: "He moaned about how the guy wouldn't shut up about God. He said he wanted to speak to a lawyer about his rights so he could be moved cells."
Click to expand...

It would have been a better story if he had just raped him.

:rolleyes:
 
Remember, it only says the other inmate was transferred - not that he was removed as a result of the rapist's complaints. My guess (and it is only a guess) was that the prison authorities removed him to stop the situation ending in violence.
 
Giz said:
What kind of a Christian would commit crimes anyway?

(I am always bemused at stories of christian/muslim/whatever convicts who have oh so precious beliefs that must be listened to... if they were really that sincere in their beliefs then I doubt they would have committed crime in the first place)
Click to expand...

If I ever wind up in prison, I'll totally become a devout evangelical Christian. You get out earlier, thanks to all these lovely (and sometimes state-funded) religious programs to rehabilitate people. In the US, anyway, if you insist you're innocent you don't get parole. If you confess your crimes as being sins and blather on about accepting Jesus, you'll get out early. Possibly because you bore the parole board to tears, but mostly because too many people here believe you must be a good person if you profess belief in the same mythology they do. "I didn't do it" = being an unrepentant jerk who stays in prison. "I surely did those things, and I am sorry for them because Jesus weeps at my sinning, but now I am rejoicing in my shame for I am blest by the glory of the Lord who--what? Okay, thanks, I've already packed. Bless you all in the name of--okay, later."
 
Manchester Prison (it used to be called Strangeways - make of that what you will!) actually has quite a few remand prisoners; possibly the fundie was such, and therefore only there temporarily.
 
It's only the Sun, using any old excuse to have a go at "political correctedness" and human rights legislation. It's what they do.
The rapist merely wrote in a prison magazine about his irritation at sharing with a God-botherer - all the rest is from some anonymous "source".
A source said Relf was "furious" at having to share at Manchester Prison with the Christian convict and wanted him to be "evicted".
He said: "He moaned about how the guy wouldn't shut up about God. He said he wanted to speak to a lawyer about his rights so he could be moved cells."
Click to expand...
Yeah, and I'm betting that the "source" was sitting inside the Sun office.
 
Flip the story to a prisoner sharing with an islamic fundie who is refused a move.

Imagine The Sun take on that one!!
 
Some atheist. He should have taken it as a challenge to convert the Christian the other way.

Or maybe a 20-foot wide asteroid should just have landed on the cell.
 
Wait, so how do we know this guy is actually an atheist, again?

'Cause The Sun says so? :rolleyes:
 
Ian Osborne said:
Remember, it only says the other inmate was transferred - not that he was removed as a result of the rapist's complaints. My guess (and it is only a guess) was that the prison authorities removed him to stop the situation ending in violence.
Click to expand...

Why?:D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom