How can people be so cruel?

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A lot of religious people kill cats as warning. (And I knew a guy who killed his girlfriend's cat to both hurt AND threaten her, and he would stab her to death not long after.)

What's really strange is that I know someone who was identified as a witch (adding to the irony is she WAS, but they didn't know that it was based on something really stupid and they thought she was the Satan worshiping kind, you know the ones who sacrifice cats) and the fundies really hated her...and someone started poisoning her cats with antifreeze. A devout Catholic vet (that she took one of her poisoned cats to in the vain hope of saving him) also did something nasty, too, though unlike me she doesn't think he did it for religious reasons.

Oh yes, when the Catholic Church I used to live by held a massive prayer rally in support of Prop 8 a cat lady neighbor lost 2 cats (as traffic was fierce because so many Christians showed up to stand with God in hating the gay), and she said she knew at least one had been ran over on purpose (tires squealed, etc), just out of sheer cruelty (but no doubt the cat killer felt moral for being against gay marriage).