Pastor decried after child's arms severed

[maxrandb]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEVERED_ARMS?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

More Red State Morals and Family Values for you. People like this pastor should be held accountable for things like this, but you know, in *'s world, that will never happen. This is sad and disgusting and terrible and makes me want to weep unter my shoulders ache. This is what runaway fundamentalism looks like.

PLANO, Texas (AP) -- Long before Dena Schlosser took a blade to her baby's arms, her parents had begun to worry. In the years after she moved to Texas with her husband and children, their gentle, dependent daughter had become increasingly isolated. And, according to her stepfather, she was dangerously consumed by a self-described prophet and his church.

He said Davidson used violent imagery and told women they possessed a rebellious "Jezebel" spirit, and that they should submit to their husbands, he said.

"I'm not saying that anybody suggested 'Go cut your baby's arms off,'" said Macaulay, a mental health counselor who lives with Schlosser's mother, Connie, in Canada. "This diminishing of women, this diminishing of women's powers, women's importance, referring to women as jezebels, I think, further undermines an already fragile ego state that Dena's experiencing."

That's absurd, the 72-year-old minister said.

"I'm an apostle and I'm a prophet," Davidson said. "I only teach what's in the Bible and that's what makes them mad."

[maxrandb]

1. Dupe

Sorry, I looked but didn't see this was already posted.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. You can find it here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1047349

[eleonora]

2. He's an apostle and a prophet

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

[KingChicken]

3. The nutjobs are out, be careful! The fundie idiots have the ball.

[Sparkly]

4. That sounds eerily similar to Andrea Yates

She was being hounded by religious fanatics who told her she was evil, wasn't she?

[w4rma]

6. believes the Ten Commandments apply only to the disobedient, not the right

He refers to Methodist, Catholic and Baptist denominations as cults and believes the Ten Commandments apply only to the disobedient, not the righteous.

That is one crazy bunch of fundamentalists.

[Ian David]

7. Water of Life Church

Doyle Davidson

Water of Life Church

Pastor decried after child's arms severed

By LISA FALKENBERG
Associated Press Writer
Mick Macaulay said he believes his stepdaughter, who severed the arms of 10-month-old daughter Margaret and left her to die, was mentally ill. He added, however, that he also thinks the teachings of Doyle Davidson played a role.

Rev. Doyle Davidson - Water of Life Church Plano, Texas (Plano, TX)