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To celebrate my one-thousandth post about Christianity, a round-up of Christianity in the news.

Killer dad said he had to ‘get the demons’ out 27-year-old grocery store worker who police say punched and kicked his 2-year-old son to death on a country road calmly told motorists who stopped at the scene that he had to “get the demons” out of the boy.

Boy ‘skinned and eaten’ by his cannibal cult family Boy ‘skinned and eaten’ by his cannibal cult family after being held captive in a cellar.

Autopsy: Easy treatment for teen who died in failed ‘faith healing’ A 16-year-old member of a faith healing church died of uremic heart failure caused by a stricture in his urinary tract.

Dozens blinded in India looking for Virgin Mary At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary.

“This is why I carry, even in church.” Man kills two, injures 7 others, in church shooting. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church had “just put out a sign this week which says it welcomes gays.”

Man Watching Steeple Ceremony Killed When Crane Collapses One of dozens of churchgoers watching a steeple being mounted on top of a newly constructed building in southwest Oklahoma City was killed when a crane collapsed on top of his vehicle.

Cult Leader Says Lying Naked With Girls Is Religious Healing Practice In Ranton, New Mexico last Friday, Wayne Bent was indicted for inappropriately touching three minor girls while “lying naked” with them.

Catholic school principal caught in public gay threesome The principal of a New York Catholic school was arrested Sunday after being caught naked with two other men on a vacant property.

Registrar Who Won’t Serve Gays Because of Religious Beliefs has Illegitimate Child Ladele is a single mother to a child born out of wedlock. So Ladele is so Christian that she can’t possibly marry same-sex couples, but not so religious as to remain chaste until married.

Sex abuse scandal flares as pope prepares for celebrations Broken Rites, a support group for victims of church-related sexual abuse, says that 107 Catholic priests and religious brothers have been sentenced in Australian courts on sex charges.

Escaping the Amish The biggest negatives? -The rape, incest and other sexual abuse that run rampant in the community.

Pastor convicted in Ponzi scheme Robert Jennings, 58, of Perris, and Henry Jones, 53, formerly of Marina del Rey, were convicted on mail fraud, wire fraud and securities fraud charges

All of these articles were gathered by one person in his spare time over a short period of time using only English-language news sources. It is not unreasonable to suggest that there are many more articles to be found. Why does God sometimes allow / cause the death of those who worship Him? Why worship God if the reward is blindness or death? Is God good? What sort of moral authority do Christians have when they selectively ignore the dictates they would put on others? The abusive clergy listed here are mostly Protestant and appear to have acted in isolation. It is the Roman Catholic Church that has systematically protected abusive clergy from legal action under the guise of diplomatic immunity for decades. My means to lessen the number of those abused is to tear away the veil the abusers most successfully hide behind – religion. My means to lessen the number of those who make self-destructive choices based on fearful superstitions is to reason against and ridicule the root superstition – religion.