I had something similar happen with my younger brother who has schizophrenia, he had an episode when we were together, alone at our family cottage and he threatened to kill me and burn down the family cottage. I told him to knock himself out and went to bed - woke up the next day and went home. Mental illness is such a tricky topic to try and get your head around, unless you are forced to deal with it, most people just want to ignore it. The religious types tend to put it down to demonic possession and it's very hard to get a prescription for that.

I definitely think religious faith is a mental illness.
Always have.
It's rooted in delusion.
Delusion is a symptom of mental illness.

Sick and delusional…….there can never be any “appropriate” punishment for someone like this.

Maybe god told him he would go to heaven for that.

Dude, next time just burn some sage.

Yup Gaaawd tol me ta burn'em.ugh.

Sounds like he was following the Bible to the letter.......

We can subsidize big oil, ag and pharma to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. America spends trillions on the military industrial complex.
Getting real help for the mentally ill, the sick and the poor is just not important.