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A German couple who say they killed their friend on the orders of the devil are due to be sentenced on Thursday, concluding a case which has rocked the country.
Daniel Ruda, 26, and his wife Manuela, 23, admit killing Frank Haagen, but say they were not responsible for his death.
His body was found decomposing in the couple's flat in Bochum, in the west of the country, last July.
By Toby Helm in Bochum, western Germany
Published: 12:01AM GMT 01 Feb 2002
TWO satanists who stabbed a friend to death because they said the devil told them to grinned mockingly at their victim's parents yesterday before being sent to secure psychiatric units.
Daniel Ruda, 26, and his wife Manuela, 23, who said she learnt about satanism in England and Scotland, were committed for 15 and 13 years respectively. Both stared blankly ahead as sentence was passed at Bochum, western Germany.
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The prosecutor called it "a picture of cruelty and depravity such as I have never, ever seen". He was describing the scene left behind when Daniel and Manuela Ruda fled from their home in the west German town of Witten in July last year after murdering their friend, Frank Hackert.
When police broke in three days later, on July 9, they found a poster of hanged women in the bathroom and a collection of human skulls in the living room. There was a coffin in which 23-year-old Manuela sometimes slept. Blood-stained scalpels were scattered around the house. And then there was Hackert's corpse.
Originally posted by DaisyAnne
The notion of vampires predates Judaism, and therefore predates your idea of Satan. For instance, the Sumerians had their Akhkharu...
These murders were committed by deranged minds who had deranged ideas about Satan. These ideas of "Satan," come from the church. It is the Christian idea of Satan that these sick people venerated, and so I would call them Inverted Christians, since this concept of Satan has no basis in anything other than the church needing an enemy and a bogeyman.
The notion of vampires predates Judaism, and therefore predates your idea of Satan. For instance, the Sumerians had their Akhkharu...
Originally posted by liveandlearn
reply to post by DaisyAnne
The notion of vampires predates Judaism, and therefore predates your idea of Satan. For instance, the Sumerians had their Akhkharu...
This is new to me. Could you provide the documentation?
Originally posted by DaisyAnne
The notion of vampires predates Judaism, and therefore predates your idea of Satan. For instance, the Sumerians had their Akhkharu...
These murders were committed by deranged minds who had deranged ideas about Satan. These ideas of "Satan," come from the church. It is the Christian idea of Satan that these sick people venerated, and so I would call them Inverted Christians, since this concept of Satan has no basis in anything other than the church needing an enemy and a bogeyman.
Originally posted by heyo
I'm sorry. It sounds like because christians have a name for something that means it ceases to exist.
since the sumerians had an idea of something then it cannot exist for christians?
Also, to say that prejudaic religions had their own versions for things, and then turn around and say that they only exist because of christianity doesn't make sense.