Holy Crap: Whack the Love of Sweet Jesus Edition
Apparently, Idaho is not a good place to be Jewish.
BOISE — A Boise woman is facing felony charges after police say she attacked a Jewish acquaintance, stomping on the woman’s neck as part of a bizarre bid to convert her to Christianity.
Margurite Dawn Haragan, 58, has been charged with two counts of malicious harassment in an attack police have labeled a hate crime.
Because Jesus loves you.
The victim is identified only as A.G.
Prosecutors say Haragan stepped onto A.G.’s neck as she lay on the ground, pressing down with her foot and pulling up on the woman’s head and hair. Eventually, the woman said she would become a Christian in an attempt to placate her attacker, Roscheck said, and Haragan let her go.
Hey, at least she didn’t try to baptize her in the bathtub.
Thanks to Maureen for the heads up.
Just “malicious harassment”? I thought stomping on another person’s neck was physical assault and battery?
1Sounds more like thug central.
2Sounds like the attacker is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
3I don’t want THAT to be the face of Christianity for anyone. Gag, puke.
4This is why I made sure my wife and kids knew martial arts, WELL!! Because when it comes to crazies there aint much anyone can count on. You can’t count on other men, neighbors, or the police for help. So try this on my non-believing daughter and the nutcase would eventually come out of her coma wondering what happened.
5But then nut-cases do have a type of 2nd-sense that tells them ‘don’t mess with this one’.
Her friend? How does she treat her enemies? Good grief.
6So that’s what kristian kindness is. All this time i thought the opposite. Can’t quite picture Christ stomping on necks.
7That woman needs professional help, while in prison.
Margurite Dawn Haragan is one person who could use a WWJD bumper sticker. For her dashboard, so she sees it as often as possible when she’s out in public.
8Hmmm! Have heard some really strange things about “conversion” attempts but this one even beats Debbie Boone shinnying up a tree to get in through a window into the bedroom of Rock Hudson as he lay dying of AIDS so she could baptize him before his last breath!
9https://www.google.com/search?q=harridan&oq=harridan&aqs=chrome..69i57.4999j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
The perps last name should be Harridan.
10WWJD indeed!
11Granny, I looked up the malicious harassment statute. It is basically a hate crime statute that could add five years to her sentence and explicitly gives a civil right to sue to the victim. I could be wrong as I only glanced at it.
12Chuck Norris style conversion-when I want your conversion,I’ll beat it out of you.
13Yuck.
14How much do you want to bet that Haragan believes vehemently in freedom of religion and feels that she was just expressing hers?
You know, much like good Kristians do when they try to control other people’s sex lives, marriage choices and decisions on contraception.
15Sounds like she would have been at home in Spain in the 1400’s.
16Too much Faux News and Pat Robertson.
People have gone freaking crazy.
17“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook
18“Jesus loves you but I don’t.”
19If we beat her would she convert to Buddhist thought? As I read the article (she has so many issues, poor thing!) all I could think of was, “My religion is kindness” coming from the Dali Lama. His history has much brutality in it. My personal story has it as well. If beatings could change what is in your heart into making you kind…it might be worth it. But that’s not how it works for most. Instead it’s a brutalizing, dehumanizing experience. It’ll be a challenge to take this in the healing space, forgiveness coming from her victim, mental health care for this “child of God” who has terrible issues.
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