M.M.O.

I was watching TV this morning - American Justice was running the show on the disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair and the leadership of the American Atheist organization. I watched for a while, but it was time to go on the treadmill, so I turned it off. It didn't really matter anyway, I'd seen the show before and knew what happened.

The Christian part of me is saddened by the thought of a person who so completely and totally rejected even the idea of God, that she felt the compulsion to attract others to her cause. The human part of me laughed quietly to myself as she declared during a television appearance that "I'm 76 years old, I'm not going anywhere soon" a mere 5 months before she completely disappeared.

In the end, it seems that it was greed, and her personality that did her in. The greed, while partially hers, was mostly of a former employee who embezzled money from the organization. This is where her personality did her in - unsatisfied with just firing him, she wrote an article in the organization newsletter dragging out his checkered past and putting it on public display. He and an accomplice kidnapped Madalyn, her son, and her granddaughter - coerced them into withdrawing $600,000 from the organization acounts, and converted them to gold coin. Then the accomplice and the O'Hairs were killed (and dismembered) . Of the money taken, only 1 gold coin was left.

Her son Bill - accepted Christ, and is a pastor.