Tuesday, May 6, 2008

The case of incest and imprisonment in Austria

"Austrian house of horrors"
"DNA tests show an Austrian man fathered seven children with his daughter, who he allegedly imprisoned for 25 years."

"Authorities were providing little information about Fritzl, 73, who they say has confessed to locking up daughter Elisabeth since she was 18 and repeatedly raping her. He said he incinerated the body of one of her children, who died in infancy."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24385094/






This case has been in the news for some time now. I don't even know what to say. I was intially numbed and still am. No questions of why? or how could someone do this? comes to my mind because the mind is still trying to comprehend the facts.

On youtube there are alot of anger and hatred toward the man, but surprisinlgy I didn't feel any. I felt sadness and sympathy for the daugther and children and sadness in general but there is no feeling of any kind toward the man. He might as well be a trig or a rock or a piece of dirt.

There is the idea of "ex-communication" from God, which I believe means to be completely cut off from God. I feel that in a similar way I have cut off any human feeling for that man, even the feelings of hatred and anger. We might as deal with him as we would a piece of dirt; flick it off with our finger.

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