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38 San Diego L. Rev. 973 (2001)
God Told Me to Kill: Religion or Delusion

handle is hein.journals/sanlr38 and id is 979 raw text is: God Told Me to Kill: Religion or Delusion? GRANT H. MORRIS* ANSAR HAROUN, M.D.** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 974 1I. DEFINING RELIGION ........................................................................................... 978 A. Religion in the United States: Historical Development ............................ 978 B. Religion and the Supreme Court .............................................................. 980 IR. REGULATING THE CONDUCT OF RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS ....................................... 985 A. Introduction .............................................................................................. 985 B. Defining Religious Belief ......................................................................... 986 C. Applying the Religious Belief Requirement to Those Conmnanded by God to Kill ............................................................ 988 D. Beyond Belief: Defining the Free Erercise of Religion ............................ 992 IV. RELIGION AS DELUSION: DEIFIC DECREE AS INSANIT ........................................ 997 A. Defining Insanity as the Inability to Distinguish Good (Right)from Evil (Wrong) ............................................................... 997 B. The Deific Decree Doctrine .................................................................... 1002 1. Historical Development ................................................................... 1002 2. The Doctrine Denounced and Defended .......................................... 1012 * Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Clinical Professor. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. The author would like to thank Mary Loeb for her invaluable research assistance. He would also like to thank the University of San Diego for providing financial support to this project. ** Supervising Forensic Psychiatrist, San Diego Superior Court; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego School of Law.

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