Undeniably this is a tragedy but as rational people we have to question the kind of logic that leads a person to reach this conclusion, and then not only execute it but carry their children along as well.

It is the kind of mentality only religion can breed, such as blowing yourself up in the name of going to heaven. Perhaps this is even stupider, running away from an apocalypse that from where I’m sitting has not even shown any signs of coming anytime soon.

Mirror UK reports that ‘a family of three and their children were found dead at home after taking a cocktail of drugs’

Police believe the couple, Utah residents Benjamin and Kristi Strack, who were deeply religious, took the cocktail along with their children in order to ‘escape the evil in this world’

The concoction was in a bucket, with the children taking theirs before the parents. It reportedly put them to sleep before quietly killing them.

Drugs found within their system included methadone, heroin, and a handful of other over the counter medications.

The dead children ranged in age between 11 and 14 years. Another son was not part of the ritual, and he told police their mom often made comments that indicated if things got bad enough; she would rather take her family out in a comfortable way than watch them go out in a painful way.

The entire family often discussed issues themed on the apocalypse, the end of days, and the final judgement.

If that final judgement they so feared is really going to take place, they might be falling straight into the fate they worked so hard to avoid.

But then again, they did not do anything God himself has not done a million times worse; he might even be impressed.

It seems like beating a dead horse at this point, but religion has mostly outlived its usefulness; and all it does now is warp people’s minds till the most insane thing becomes reasonable and justifiable to them, looking at it through the lens of their religion.