What Makes a Crime Satanic, Occult, or Ritualistic?
It is a crime that is spiritually motivated by a religious belief system. How then do we label the following true crimes? a. Parents defy a court order and send their children to an unlicensed Christian school. b. Parents refuse to send their children to any school because they are waiting for the second coming of Christ. c. Parents beat their child to death because he or she won’t follow their Christian beliefs. d. Parents violate child labor laws because they believe the Bible requires such work. e. Individuals bomb an abortion clinic or kidnap the doctor because their religious belief system says abortion is murder. f. A child molester reads the Bible to his victims in order to justify his sex acts with them. g. Parents refuse life-saving medical treatment for a child because of their religious beliefs. h. Parents starve and beat their child to death because their minister said the child was possessed by demonic spirits. Some people would argue that the Christians who committed the
