"God told" French teacher to set herself on fire in playground

[In Other News]

Source: GlobalPost

High school students at a school in the south of France were receiving psychological assistance Friday after their maths teacher set herself on fire in the playground.

France Info radio reported that the woman is in a serious condition with third-degree burns after she doused herself in petrol on Thursday in the town of Béziers, near Montpellier, following a rowdy meeting with students.

The 44-year-old teacher, who had been at the school for 10 years, had been reportedly having problems with several students in her maths class, and the meeting was aimed at resolving some of the issues.

Agence France Presse spoke to several parents and students, who said the teacher had been hostile at a recent parents' evening.

Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/france/111014/france-teacher-set-fire-alight-immolate

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I am struggling with myself to not make a "hot teacher" joke here...

[Javaman]

1. Joan of Arc she is not, but then again...

she skipped over all the battles and trials and went right for the burning part.

[Taverner]

2. Sounds like Schizophrenia

[treestar]

3. People hearing voices in their heads

Attribute it to God, but here I would think it was well, voices in her head.

[dmallind]

4. Sure...but it's funny how the absence of God never tells anybody to do things like this.

Nobody ever beat their kids to dfeath to please the Lack Of God either.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. oh, they beat their kids alright, They just don't need that particular reason.

[hfojvt]

13. *cough* Madalyn Murray O'Hair *cough*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair

"A member of the organization"


Well, at least he was not one of those lunatics who took seriously things like "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal".

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. that link did not work for me. try this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O%27Hair

of note:

In 1980, William Murray was baptized at a Baptist church in Dallas, where he took up work as a preacher. This led to a permanent estrangement between mother and son. As she put it, "One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times...he is beyond human forgiveness."<24>
Murray spoke critically and regretfully of his mother after her disappearance, and characterized her social activism as being motivated by a love of hedonism and a need for dominance:

"When I was a young boy of ten or eleven years old she would come home and brag about spending the day in X-rated movie theaters in downtown Baltimore.... My mother’s whole life circulated around such things... It was love of power over people that finally caused not only her death, but the deaths of my brother and my daughter... My mother was an evil person... Not for removing prayer from America's schools... No, she was just evil. She stole huge amounts of money. She misused the trust of people. She cheated children out of their parents' inheritance. She cheated on her taxes and even stole from her own organizations. She once printed up phony stock certificates on her own printing press to try to take over another atheist publishing company....Regardless of how evil and lawless my mother was she did not deserve to die in the manner she did."<25>

Murray claimed his mother had illegally stashed "tens of millions" away.<2> He attempted to gain "guardianship" over his missing mother and brother's assets, declaring that they had stolen money, and said, "My brother had a tendency to fall for con games and con artists".<2>

In an episode of City Confidential that covered O'Hair, a former employee of American Atheists stated that another former employee had told him of a foreign bank account where O'Hair had deposited $18 million of American Atheists money. He noted that he had heard the story from someone and, therefore, that it was technically hearsay. He then said that he himself had seen a New Zealand bank statement showing a balance of $1.2 million of American Atheists money in New Zealand currency, which then translated to between $800,000 and $900,000 in American currency.

[dmallind]

19. Never claimed an absence of God told him to kill though, did he?

My point was not that nonbelievers don't kill (although they ARE indeed massively underrepresented in prisons, but not entirely absent) so saying that one did does not address the point, which was based on motivation and mental illness. Bit of a fail for you then really.

[hobbit709]

8. Funny how the people that hear god or other voices in their head

Never hear "Give away all your money and be nice to people."

[treestar]

9. Yeah, I've always wondered about that

You would think God would do more of that sort of thing, but he seems to limit Himself to killing people! :wtf:

[KittyWampus]

14. Really? You post something this ridiculous? Despite reality otherwise? Spiritually

alive people haven't performed tremendous works of charity?

[hobbit709]

17. Spiritually alive is hearing voices?

I don't need to hear voices inside my head to do good.

[Lance_Boyle]

6. The gawds can tell their crazies to do whatever they want TO THEMSELVES.

It's only when they tell their crazies to burn OTHER PEOPLE that I have a problem with it.

[seabeyond]

7. mental disorders often cause "voices" in the head and people associate it with....

it really should not be such a struggle....

[hfojvt]

10. it's possible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOqY0rwT9dk

[Darth_Kitten]

11. Yeah, because if there is a reason to make a joke, this is it.

:sarcasm:

Very sad.

[FSogol]

12. Not cool, God. n/t

[Sheepshank]

15. And yet god tells Perry and Bachmann something completely different.

The teacher goes the self incindiary route, yet those other two would take down the entire nation with them. There's no rhyme or reason to this god intervention thing.

[mysuzuki2]

18. that god -

what a kidder!

[Duer 157099]

20. God is an asshole n/t