Karma: What do you think happens to serial killers in future lives? How would they atone for crimes like that?

Question

I believe in a cosmic force that educates all of us everyday, whether we listen to and heed the messages or not. What kind of cosmic education do you think people like Jack the Ripper or Ted Bundy would receive in their future lives?

I, myself, do not believe in the eye-for-an-eye, because many times, there are better ways for someone to learn. For instance, a "lighter" crime on the karma scale might be simply punching any random stranger. Well, a person who would do such a thing could not truly learn from being punched back the next day, by an entirely different stranger, even though that is the "eye" mentality, because that person already has a predisposition to violence and seldom learns from it. Rather, he might learn not to punch a stranger if he happens to see someone he loves get punched by a stranger..

Thoughts?

It's disturbing to me that there are so many negative answers here, which astonishingly enough, shows the complete lack of compassion some people have for others.

I believe we are all loved by something cosmic. We all do awful things, granted, we don't all go out and kill people, but maybe you did in a past life, what do you know?

And what do you think of all of the psychotic people who try to kill you with their cars everyday while you're driving to work? Go for a drive- at least 12 people will make a serious attempt on your life- honest!

With so many of these everyday psychopaths running around, how can we say that we don't each have the capacity for both evil and goodness? It's a choice, in my view..

Answer 1

Serial killers, in their next lives, will realize the value of life.

The intelligent cosmic force we call God educates us in various ways. For example, a person who was a serial killer in his past life may, in his current life, give birth to children and those children may die an unnatural death. He will feel the same pain that he caused so many other people in his past life as a murderer. Of course, the sufferer will not understand why he suffers because he has temporarily forgotten his past life. If he remembered his past life, he would not feel the same pain that he caused to the kith and kin of his murder victims. He would instead feel he deserves to be punished. By making a sinner temporarily forget his past life, the Laws of Karma ensure that the sinner feels the same intense grief and pain he caused so many others.

Eventually, after millions of reincarnations, we fully realize our divine potential and learn how to stop reincarnating. We remember all our past lives and the lessons we learned. The methods of attainment of self-realization are contained in the esoteric teachings of all religions.

Answer 2

Firstly, we all know that serial killers are not mentally healthy at all. In order to become so ill mined, they are factors that caused a quiet a few circuits to malfunction. Maybe a horrible past? Or maybe just an illness in the mind. We all know about physical disabilities but these horrible people, face it, are patients of disabilities in their brain where they do not function like normal human beings. Many people under estimate mental illnesses. I mean if we can have people born without limbs why isn't not possible for people to be born without certain functions in their brains. We have people born with extra fingers, a tails, extras of anything. Why not an extra something in the brain that causes abnormal behavior. Its strange though, that these malfunctions cause these people to kill others.

As for their future lives, that lies in gods intention. However, I really believe everyone is born innocent and dies innocent. The product of their lives is due to the factors that surronded it or the factors that developed within.

I'm not taking the side of 'serial killers' and I dont promote what they nor do I believe its normal due to their malfunctioning in society but there is always a story behind someones behaviour.

Answer 3

There is no atonement after death.

The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection, the resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later. (Rom. 6:23; 1 Tim. 6:15, 16; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Ps. 146:3, 4; John 11:11-14; Col. 3:4; 1 Cor. 15:51-54; 1 Thess. 4:13-17; John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:1-10.)

Answer 4

The serial killer would be the mother of someone who was killed by a serial killer who was never caught.

I believe eye-for-an-eye means the person will experience whatever pain he/she has wrought. That isn't necessarily physical pain. The emotional pain would be much stronger. If a guy punched someone, for example, he would maybe then have a girlfriend who everyone knew cheated on him - lack of control, being hurt by another, and public humiliation - that kinda thing. The secret is to recognize the moment for learning. That is what keeps many people from being enlightened - they simply don't open up to see how their suffering relates to the suffering they cause.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as reincarnation. This wordly life is only once and that comes to a permanent end when someone dies.

After a person dies, he will be resurrected on the Day of Judgement along with the rest of mankind. It is possible that a person receives part of his punishment in this world. The final reward and punishment will only be in the hereafter. God Almighty may not punish a murderer or a robber or a rapist in this world but he will surely be held accountable on the Day of Judgement and will be punished in the hereafter i.e. life after death (not a rebirth).

Hitler incinerated six million Jews during his reign of terror. Even if the police had arrested him, what punishment can the human law give Hitler for justice to prevail? The most they can do is to send Hitler to the gas chamber. But that will only be punishment for the killing of one Jew. What about the remaining five million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine Jews?

Allah can burn Hitler more than six million times in hellfire

Allah say in the Glorious Qur’an:

"Those who reject our signs, We shall soon cast into the fire;
as often as their skins are roasted through
We shall change them for fresh skins that they may taste the penalty, for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise"
[Al-Qur’an 4:56]

If Allah wishes he can incinerate Hitler six million times in the hereafter in the hellfire.

Answer 6

What if they become a victim?

What if they are brutally murdered in a future life?

But the problem is, unless we have a true knowledge of a previous life, so we learn?

Or does the soul learn, suffering via the vessel it is placed in?

Is there some kind of Cosmic Leaderboard as to how well you've "purified" yourself?

(I'm not trying to be facetious, but there has to be some way to "see" your progress to getting to the next level)

Answer 7

I think it would take many lives of hellacious torment to get through to them what they did and to atone for that kind of crime. I'm new to Buddhism and karma as a whole, but from what I've read and learned so far - it would take plenty of lives for the pendulum to finally swing back the other way.

Answer 8

a actual Halloween nightmare could be sending your little ones out to trick-or-manage and that they finally end up at Jeffrey Dahmer's residing house. that's by using fact Dahmer, who mutilated and on occasion ate his sufferers, is between the creepiest serial killers of all time. What drove him to kill 17 youthful adult men between 1988 and 1991?

Answer 9

If you're talking about reincarnation, which I strongly believe in (I'm a Hindu), then the murderers and hate-filled people come back to life as insects and animals that get crushed and slaughtered, respectively!

Answer 10

Karma is not about atonement.
However..... the power he has emitted into the universe will become a sudden and awful death for him - many times.