Evangelical nutjob blows up family dog. Says it "had the devil in it".

[DaShi]

It's probably from all the lead in his bullets.

[Alexander's Horse]

If you catch your dog performing suspected satanic rituals, oh I don't know - maybe licking its balls, what can you do if you're a fundamentalist christian, doomsday prepper and stopped taking your meds years ago? Strapping a bomb to its neck and detonating it probably makes perfect sense.

[Dr Strangelove]

There are non-reigious psychotics too. Just think, suppose he had not resisted the satanic influence of the dog and had decided to go out and hunt people making out in cars? Which is worse, killing one dog or becoming the Son of Sam?

[Alexander's Horse]

you have a point there

[DaShi]

EvC, for example. I wouldn't call him religious.

[Dinner]

There are non-reigious psychotics too. Just think, suppose he had not resisted the satanic influence of the dog and had decided to go out and hunt people making out in cars? Which is worse, killing one dog or becoming the Son of Sam?

Did the Son of Sam claim god spoke to him and told him to kill sinners or something?

[The Mad Monk]

Yes. Through his DOG.

[Colon™]

I find it oddly heartening that, in this age of computers and advanced machines, a man on horseback is still the best solution to controlling herds of cattle.

[Alexander's Horse]

Yes. Through his DOG.

could it have been the SAME DOG or more likely a pup from that Satanic litter

[Dr Strangelove]

Did the Son of Sam claim god spoke to him and told him to kill sinners or something?

He claimed a dog belonging to his neighbor told him to seek out and shoot people making out in their cars. The dog's name was Sam.

[Dinner]

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It's all fun and games until they go all Skynet on us.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm forever grateful Europe exported most of its nutjobs and non-conformists to the USA.

[Dinner]

I'd rather have them than the criminals which is what Australia got.

[Wezil]

Looks like a good thread another religious nutjob story.

PHOENIX -- A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday.

Hannah Gastonguay, 26, said Saturday that she and her husband "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us" when they took their two small children and her father-in-law and set sail from San Diego for the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati in May.

But just weeks into their journey the Gastonguays hit a series of storms that damaged their small boat, leaving them adrift for weeks, unable to make progress. They were eventually picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel, transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and taken to Chile where they are resting in a hotel in the port city of San Antonio.

Their flights home were arranged by U.S. Embassy officials, Gastonguay said. The U.S. State Department was not immediately available for comment.

The months-long journey has been "pretty exciting" and "little scary at certain points," Gastonguay told The Associated Press by telephone.

She said they wanted to go to Kiribati because "we didn't want to go anywhere big." She said they understood the island to be "one of the least developed countries in the world."

Kiribati is a group of islands just off the Equator and the international date line about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The total population is just over 100,000 people of primarily Micronesian descent.

Hannah Gastonguay said her family was fed up with government control in the U.S. As Christians they don't believe in "abortion, homosexuality, in the state-controlled church," she said.

U.S. "churches aren't their own," Gastonguay said, suggesting that government regulation interfered with religious independence. "Jesus isn't the head of the church. God isn't the head of the church," she said.

Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being "forced to pay these taxes that pay for abortions we don't agree with."

The Gastonguays weren't members of any church, and she said their faith came from reading the Bible and through prayer. "The Bible is pretty clear," she said.

The family moved in November from Ash Fork, Arizona, to San Diego, where they lived on their boat as they prepared to set sail. She said she gave birth to the couple's 8-month-old girl on the boat, which was docked in a slip at the time.

In May, Hannah, her 30-year-old husband Sean, his father Mike, and the couple's daughters, 3-year-old Ardith and baby Rahab set off. They wouldn't touch land again for 91 days, she said.

She said at first, "We were cruising."

But within a couple of weeks "when we came out there, storm, storm, storm."

The boat had taken a beating, and they decided to set course for the Marquesas Islands. Instead they found themselves in a "twilight zone," taking more and more damage, leaving them unable to make progress.

They could have used a sail called a genoa, she said, but they risked snapping off the mast and losing their radio and ability to communicate.

They had been on the ocean for about two months and were low on supplies. They were out of food and were down to "some juice and some honey." She said they were able to catch fish, but they didn't see any boats.

Still, we "didn't feel like we were going to die or anything. We believed God would see us through," she said.

At one point a fishing ship came into contact with them but left without providing assistance. A Canadian cargo ship came along and offered supplies, but when they pulled up alongside it, the vessels bumped and the smaller ship sustained even more damage.

They were getting hit by "squall after squall after squall."

"We were in the thick of it, but we prayed," she said. "Being out on that boat, I just knew I was going to see some miracles."

They watched the surrounding storms disperse, and "next thing you know the sun is out. It's amazing."

Eventually, their boat was spotted by a helicopter that had taken off from a nearby Venezuelan fishing vessel, which ended up saving them.

"The captain said, 'Do you know where you're at? You're in the middle of nowhere,"' she said.

They were on the Venezuelan ship for about five days before transferring to the Japanese cargo ship, where they spent nearly three weeks before landing in Chile on Friday. The Chilean newspaper Las Ultimas Noticias reported the story of their arrival.

Sean Gastonguay's brother Jimmy, who lives in Arizona, said he had provided a description of the family's vessel to the U.S. Coast Guard and exchanged emails with them once they were picked up by the first boat.

"There was some concern, but we were hoping for the best, and they eventually popped up," he said. He was able to keep track of the family with the help of the Coast Guard as they were transferred from ship to ship.

"We're all happy. We have good peace of mind now," he said.

Hannah Gastonguay said the family will next, "go back to Arizona" and "come up with a new plan."

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/family-leaves-u-s-on-sailboat-over-religious-concerns-gets-lost-at-sea-1.1406102#ixzz2beT5Jj8F

Where did god lead them?

Lost at sea.