How about the belief somebody is sprawled out on a big fluffy cloud upsairs?
You've gotta be a bit cuckoo to swallow that one, surely?

Well I would class that as an irrational belief, but then I'm not a mental health worker, so if I were to suggest Kirkstaller should be sectioned for his own and the general publics safety then I'm not sure what credibility my suggestion would carry...

If the murderer says Jesus/Allah told him to do it is that ok?

Yorkshire's most infamous serial killer was sent on a mission fron the big chief upstairs so it could be true.

They are just some of the symptoms of some and varied psychotic mental illnesses.

Re, our old friend Kirkstaller. I liked what a clinicial psychologist once said on television. "If you talk to God, it's called prayer. If he talks back, it's called schizophrenia"

I've done a little research into the phenomina experienced by kirkstaller in which he was visited by a deity whilst cleaning out the rabbit cage in hsi garden - I don't think it was Jesus at all but in fact was El-ahrairah, the spiritual rabbit guide from Watership Down come to tell him to release his bretheren from the cage and stop mis-treating rabbits in future.

In fact there is documented evidence of this in one of El-ahrairah scriptures in which he writes, "What a fekkin day I've had, went to warn off a human from some captive bunnies and the daft barstard worships ME now, this isn't how its supposed to happen..."

If he'd looked closer then kirkstaller would probably have noticed the buck teeth and big ears on his "Jesus"...

In a society where we are told to respect other people's beliefs, cultures etc. it really doesn't apply to the Sin Bin does it.



If someone wants to worship a kitten for example, then so be it.

I don't know of any kitten worshipers who try to enforce worship of the kitten – or their ideas of the kitten's views – on everybody else. And looking at my kittens, I hate to think what one would suggest they wanted society to do.

Unfortunately, for many in assorted religious groups, 'respect' only ever works one way.

Indeed. it could almost remind one of the Puritans, who left Plymouth for the New World claiming that they were persecuted. In reality, that 'persecution' was them not being allowed to persecute those that they did not agree with.

I'm a little shocked he keeps them bunnies.
Let's be honest here, their morality is at all time low.
Father's will hump babies, brothers will hump sisters, they really don't give a flying fook who they have a piece of action with as long as their getting some.

There probably bang at it now whilst their keeper is down churchville praying for us sinners.

Tis a disgrace I tell thee.

I'd say stabbing a stranger for no logical reason fits the bill nicely.

It's an excellent general point. However, in this case the perpetrator was not previously known to mental health workers and so was not under any sort of treatment at all it seems.

Unlike Pokemon, you can't catch them all.

Ah. Hadn't caught up with that.