Texas Woman Who Left 2 Toddlers in Car to Die Regularly Praised God Online

[NeoGreen]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/06/13/texas-woman-who-left-2-toddlers-in-car-to-die-regularly-praised-god-online/

Texas Woman Who Left 2 Toddlers in Car to Die Regularly Praised God Online
June 13, 2017 by David G. McAfee

Amanda Hawkins, the young woman who left her two young children in the car to die while she was out partying, is a proud Christian who routinely mentions God on Facebook.

Authorities say that Hawkins intentionally left her young girls — ages 1 and 2 — in her vehicle for more than 15 hours while she was at a friend’s house. Temperatures rose into the 90s in the morning before they were taken to the hospital and soon pronounced dead.

Kerr County Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer said in a statement:

“This is by far the most horrific case of child endangerment that I have seen in the 37 years that I have been in law enforcement. Now with the death of the girls the charges could be upgraded after this case is presented to a grand jury.”

It turns out that Hawkins, who lied about a trip to the lake when she finally brought them to the hospital, is a Christian who regularly posts about parenting and the Bible.

(snip)

I’m not saying Christianity caused Amanda to kill her young daughters. I am saying, however, that the Christian morals she espoused didn’t prevent her from doing something most parents could only imagine in their nightmares. She frequently quoted the Bible and talked about protecting her kids, but ultimately, it was all talk. She wasn’t able to keep them safe from herself, and she is being held accountable not by God but by the justice system.

[Ilsa]

1. I guess the friend she went to see

didn't know the kids were in the car? I hope she is deposed as well.

[HAB911]

2. Obviously part of god's plan

I guess

[Chemisse]

3. There is something very very wrong with someone who would do this to her children.

Whether she was religious or not is irrelevant, in my opinion.

[Duppers]

5. "Irrelevant'? It's the disgusting, sick hypocrisy that's the point.

There are many "Christian" child abusers who aren't sick and evil enough to murder their children but who do make their lives miserable.

Mild forms of hypocrisy include the Sunday church crowd going to restaurants and stiffing the wait staff and looking down their noses at the folks having to work on their holy day.

And as John Fuglesang said about Republicans, "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't."

The hypocrisy is everywhere.

I hope this woman is found guilty of first degree murder.

Those poor babies.

[Duppers]

6. P.S. My Christian parents used

The "spare the rod, spoil the child" literally. I have the emotional and physical scars to prove it.

This is not to say that all atheist parents are perfect. It's just that I, and many others, despise the psychopathic hypocrisy of some Christians.

[Siwsan]

4. This doesn't surprise me, on little bit

I am reminded of the adage: 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk about it.'

The people I know who insist on always talking about what good, religious people they are, generally aren't demonstrating that by their actions.

[RussBLib]

7. not the sharpest knife in the drawer

yea, religion!

[rurallib]

8. when I heard of this I thought of that woman in South Carolina

a few years back that drove her car into a lake with her 2 young kids in the car.

IIRC she was sending them to heaven before they had a chance to sin and possibly go to hell.