Here's a weird story... Canadian police attended the scene of a collision last year and to their astonishment found five deranged and aggressive Jehovah's Witnesses, four of them stark naked! As the story unfolded it transpired that the group had come to believe that they were living through the "great tribulation" a mythical period of suffering in which Jesus would return. The fact that they hadn't eaten for 3 days may well have contributed to them being a bit cranky but the nakedness probably speaks to much deeper repressed feelings. Anyway apparently there was also some neighbours involved who were rescued kidnapped by the group but managed to escape, and when the police arrived the JW's thought they were "monsters" hell bent on killing them! And there was I thinking "Thought for the Day" was often a bit odd.
If you ever wondered what harm (in this real-world) religion can do to otherwise perfectly sane people then look no further, if you abandon logic and reason like these folks, then anything is possible.
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