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Stunningly Stupid Attempts at Logic

What I'd like to know is why catholicism wasn't implicated in the suicide below? When Moslems commit suicide, why isn't Islam implicated? When Buddhists commit suicide, why isn't their religion implicated? Could it possibly be because those groups are larger than ours? Yeah, I think so. Much easier to bash groups when you don't realize that their members interact more in your daily life than you might understand.

United States: Local detectives in Knox, Indiana, know why two teenage girls were killed by a train - it's because they had an interest in Wicca.


Sims said that materials found in one of the girls' backpacks have led police to believe that the deaths were suicide.

Knox Community Schools Assistant Superintendent Steve Sailor said Monday evening, The girls did take their own lives, and it appears that some of the decision-making involved wicca and, to some degree, witchcraft.

But clearly they weren't very Wiccan, otherwise why would the local Catholic priest be willing to perfom a funeral mass for one of them?

Deaths of 2 teens believed suicides - Post-Tribune, 31st August 2004.
[The Pagan Prattle Online]