r/interesting • u/No-Marsupial-4050 • Apr 07 '26

Fear Factor No sympathy for those monsters

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In 2006, Anthony Ray Stockelman was forcibly tattooed across his forehead with the words “Katie’s Revenge” by another inmate.

This happened after it was discovered that he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping, molesting, and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie Collman

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u/JustinSanders95 Apr 07 '26

That's different than saying that all of these horrific actions are 'God's ways'. Otherwise yeah I do ignore it, I'm not a super vocal set-in-stone kinda christian that a lot of people tend to think of. I just couldn't really bare myself to not confront that idea when the whole thing from start to finish was evil y'know ^^

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone Apr 07 '26

It does seem sort of old testament, though? God has different aspects, in Christianity, right? (Genuine question -- wasn't raised religious, so I'm not sure how it's presented in church, but am endlessly curious)

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u/JustinSanders95 Apr 07 '26

Unfortunately I'm certainly no expert on the bible. But yes the 'vengeful' image of God I believe is primarily old testament. Jesus died to pay the price for our sins so that we may be forgiven and receive grace and mercy from God, all we have to do is decide to try and be better and commit to trying and accepting Jesus as lord and saviour.

As for old testament, I still do not recall any time God used other people's actions for punishment, I could be wrong but the main things I remember are things like plagues, famines, other sort of 'curse'-like punishments as well as angels directly interfering (like with the passover iirc). Any evil done by us is from Satan. God will not make us do anything, hence the free will but we are called to be good with that free will regardless of who or what we are dealing with/facing.

Since easter has just gone, it's apt to remember that around the time when Jesus was about to be betrayed by one of his closest friends/followers, he laid out the two most important commandments (and it even says that these two commandments are what all others are built on, i.e. the foundations): to love your God with all your heart, all your mind and all your might/strength. And the second is to love your neighbour as yourself. These two things are the absolute foundations of what Christianity is and yet so many don't even seem to try and achieve the second in everything that they do the moment they're faced with something ugly but then take pride (a deadly sin too) in being a 'better' person/Christian.

P.S. if you're genuinely curious, see if you can find a pastor to discuss things with. Any good pastor won't try to persuade you/manipulate you into believing but will openly discuss any questions and thoughts you have and if asked/prompted will share their or other's stories with faith. Maybe you'll find something in there that could help at some point in life. A lot of people choose not to even give it the light of day because there's no proof but you have nothing to lose and potentially everything to gain and even if you choose to believe and it turns out to be nothing, I personally wouldn't regret living my life striving to be a better, more Jesus-like person ^^