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Jesus Gone Wild! It’s time to separate church and state, once and for all

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Part 1 of 2.

I tripped across a provocative headline in the Wall Street Journal the other day: “They Need to be Liberated from Their God.” Turns out the story was about Mosab Hassan Yousef and his spying on Hamas. Which was a little disappointing. There’s no doubt that Palestinian Muslims need to be liberated from their god, but given the recent explosion in documented attacks by US Christians on their fellow Americans (as well as on reason and basic common sense), I thought perhaps the WSJ was going to be the first mainstream “news” outlet to do a story on Jesus Gone Wild!

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The Catholic Church and Its Little Child-Rape Problem

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Ummm, let me get this straight. The Vatican, having concluded that priests raping children is both a sin and a crime, is now wrestling with whether or not to institute a zero-tolerance policy for child rape? As opposed to what? All in favor of “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” raise your hands? Okay, now everybody that thinks we should pass out seven year-old boys as ordination gifts?

Check this, hot off the wires from CNN.com:

“U.S. cardinals said they will recommend a special process to dismiss any priest who has ‘become notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory, sexual abuse of minors’.” Read more