Does anyone think that if Travis was not LDS they would happily ever after?
*Random thought*
You are kidding, right? If it is a serious question..... the answer to any question that begins with
"If Travis" is rather easy.
No. Not at all.
Mormonism is not what was wrong. Jodi Arias is what was wrong. She is a convicted murderer. She abused and likely killed animals dating back to childhood. According to her babysitter she was a bad seed and physically abusive to her little brother. It was so extreme the sitter could not leave Jodi alone in a room with the boy for fear of how badly she'd hurt him. She has been a complete jerk to her mother, even physically hitting her according to the records. She has had mental problems all of her life by all accounts. Her defense team had seven long years and they could not find ONE person willing to take the stand to vouch for her character. She was very likely about to go kill others with the Glock she had hidden in her rental car, along with huge knives. She is not even remotely sorry for the murder. One can discern that from the vile letter she wrote the family full of lies and by what she has done to try to hurt Travis' legacy, his family and Deanna for the last seven years. She lies and cheats and steals other people's thoughts and blogs and art and tries to present these as her own. There is not one redeeming quality in her. One could search high and one could search low.....there is none. Even the people fighting for her very life will stand in front of a jury and say "I don't like Jodi Arias". Her brothers and sisters have admitted in interviews with her doctors that she is a liar, manipulative, rude, not liked, or trusted. Her childhood friend describes her as "Someone who likes to play the victim". Her former lovers describe her as "volatile, bi-polar, suicidal, unhealthy, insecure, clingly........."
There is nothing that was ever going to make Jodi Arias into someone who Travis Alexander could love. SHE WAS THE PROBLEM. Jodi Arias would have been who she is no matter what religion Travis was, or even if he had none at all.
Jodi Arias would never be someone he liked, trusted and respected once her mask fell to the floor and he realized she was just pretending to , in her own words, "mirror and match" what she thought he wanted her to be.
When you look at the women Travis did love and respect like
Deanna
Linda
Lisa
Marie
you see he wanted someone he could aspire to be proud of, that was
never going to be Jodi Arias. Not as LDS, Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy....Jodi Arais was never going to be someone he would want long term. She has no value as person. We all know that. He had come to understand that even the great sex was not worth the torture having someone evil in his life was. He would have came to that same realization had he been Jewish, Catholoc or Agnostic. She wasn't bright, charming, inspiring or beautiful in any way that she thought or believed. She only tried to pretend to be.
She chased vampires and studied the occult with Bobby, she slept in tents and tried to be bohemian with Matt, with Daryl she played Suzie suburban, with Travis it was Molly Mormon. With the next guy it would have been whatever she thought he wanted. Travis would have figured her out, in time, regardless of his religion. Every other man in her life sure did. Despite her doing whatever they wanted....in the end they did not want her. Let that be your guide.
Not only would they not have been happily ever after, it is quite the opposite.....if Travis didn't think of sex as taboo as he did, I think he would have been done with the forbidden fruit rather quickly. She would have been forgotten as fast as the name of a stripper at a bachelor party in Vegas.
The age-old argument of "nature vs nurture" is always so interesting and frustrating! I agree that a criminal's upbringing isn't 100% of cause like defense lawyers would love to shove down our throats. Society would be truly horrifying if that were true. I think that would have been an excellent point to bring up in this court case: an "alleged" smack with a wooden spoon versus the genuinely abusive childhoods of kidlets with sadistic parents. Genuinely tortured children who have become phenomenal human beings doing great works for others. Then there are the people who are whiners and walking pity-parties about how "my parents didn't appreciate my art and it caused me such distress that I had to butcher someone who tried to help me and uplift me".
until Sentencing Day !
