Now this is an excellent point.



Care in the community was a disastrous policy. How many incidents like this have we seen in the years since?

Forget the colour of his skin and concentrate on the ultimate get-out clause - mental illness.

Denying mental illness while claiming Jesus spoke to you while you were cleaning out the rabbit hutch.



Just the average day for the lazy preacher.

Are you and jesus saying this guy wasn't mentally ill?

Well, what's the criteria for being mentally ill these days?

You tell me?

The insinuation that he wasn't, came from you, not me.

Problems with logical thought

A sense of unreality

Unusual or exaggerated beliefs about personal powers to understand meanings or influence events

Fear or suspiciousness of others or a strong nervous feeling

Uncharacteristic, peculiar behaviour

Developing irrational beliefs

Serious disturbances in perception (hallucinations)

Hearing and seeing things that others don't



That's just some symptoms of mental illness.

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"