Posted on 09/25/2009 4:56:55 AM PDT by ETL
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer..."
Debra Tate, the slain actress's younger sister, told the parole commissioners Sept. 2 that she "will pray for (Atkins') soul when she draws her last breath, but until then I think she should remain in this controlled situation." Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived..."
Atkins married twice while in prison. Her first husband, Donald Lee Laisure, purported to be an eccentric Texas millionaire. They quickly divorced. Whitehouse, her second husband, is a Harvard Law School graduate and had recently served as one of her attorneys.
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I imagine the Christians of the day had a hard time with Saul of Tarsus and his conversion as well.
King David was a man after God’s own heart, yet he was an adulterer and a murderer.
Abraham lied, denied and then disobeyed God - he was made the father of God’s Chosen.
Rahab was a protitute and a liar, yet her faith is praised.
In God’s eyes, if we’ve thought it, we’ve done it (which makes me squirm a bit).
God calls who he will call. It’s up to us to answer, no matter who we are, or what we’ve done.
I imagine there will be surprises in the hereafter as to who is where. Big surprises.
Your post is biblicaly correct in every aspect and in perfect line with Christ teachings. Most “avowed’ Christians here would rather she be roasting slowly in hell. LMAO.
If she fully understood her crimes, why did she want to be let out. Why didn’t she accept with resignation what she had done and live out her sentence without appealing for parole? It sounds like she was trying to have it both ways and God doesn’t allow that. One way or another. Either want out and believe she should be exempt from fulfilling her sentence or accept God’s grace, what she did, and then live out her life in prison without asking for anything other than being allowed to live her life after taking that of others.
“Her hair shorn”
Wasn’t shorn on her legs
Well, not to turn this into a Protestant vs. Catholic thread, but she may have some temporal punishment and cleansing still to undergo in Purgatory.
(Sorry, but being Catholic, I just thought to mention that.)
But yes, God can forgive ANY sin. He’s All-Powerful and All-Merciful. No limits there. We’re the ones who often seek to limit Him.
On Spahn Ranch she was known as ‘Sexy Sadie’, but unless they get some formaldehyde in her she’s going to be known as ‘Stinky Sadie’.
I would guess human nature - there’s that desire to be free in all of us.
Bad rubbish. Good riddance.
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