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Bryce Butler

(338 posts)
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 06:53 PM Dec 2015

Arizona woman shoots victim in eye for not believing in God...

An Arizona woman reportedly told police that she shot another woman for having a lack of religious faith. The suspect said that she kept the victim’s body as a “shrine from God.”

Phoenix officers were called to the home of 39-year-old Anitra Braxton on Dec. 26 and discovered a body on her couch covered in a towel after obtaining a search warrant, KSAZ reported.

During an interview at police headquarters, Braxton explained that the victim did not believe in God so she shot her in the eye, the police report said. She then kept the victim’s body on her couch for three days, calling it a “shrine from God.”

Braxton was charged with first-degree murder. The body had not yet been identified. Police said that evidence suggested the victim had been pregnant.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/arizona-woman-shoots-victim-in-eye-for-not-believing-in-god-and-then-keeps-body-on-couch-as-shrine/
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Arizona woman shoots victim in eye for not believing in God... (Original Post) Bryce Butler Dec 2015 OP
Well that seems reasonable. aidbo Dec 2015 #1
God sure brings out the violence in people doesn't he? JRLeft Dec 2015 #7
I make it a point to stay far away from people who believe in god. Binkie The Clown Dec 2015 #2
Jebus is Lord olddots Dec 2015 #3
Does the opposite ever crop up? whatthehey Dec 2015 #4
The Christians are getting scarier every year. JNelson6563 Dec 2015 #5
and the victim was her "friend" RussBLib Dec 2015 #6
I wonder what kind of towel she used. Probably beach -- the most sacred of towels -- nt Freelancer Dec 2015 #8

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
2. I make it a point to stay far away from people who believe in god.
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 08:23 PM
Dec 2015

Not to be obnoxious or judgmental, but because I consider it an issue of personal safety. Like staying away from people who behave erratically, or have trouble with impulse control. It's the same reason I stay out of bars, shooting ranges, and dark alleys.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
4. Does the opposite ever crop up?
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 09:30 AM
Dec 2015

You know, loving peaceful liberal Christian short by nasty amoral vermin nonbeliever just for having an imaginary friend?

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
5. The Christians are getting scarier every year.
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 11:22 AM
Dec 2015

It's like they are striving to be worse than bible-god on the violence and psychosis

Nothing says God Is Love like a bullet in the eye.

Julie

RussBLib

(9,665 posts)
6. and the victim was her "friend"
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 10:25 PM
Dec 2015

I wonder what she was doing to atheist strangers?

Now, of course we know the vast majority of faitheists would not act in this way, but I do wonder how many of them thought, deep down, the atheist had it coming?

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/28/woman-shoots-friend-for-being-atheist-keeps-body-for-days-as-shrine-to-god/

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