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Wall Street Journal, Club, Church Clash in Texas: Across the country, religious congregations are entering nontraditional spaces at an increasing rate, religious experts say, as churches seek to lower their rent and attract worshipers with an informal atmosphere. [These Christians are only doing as they are compelled to do in 1 Timothy 2:8.]

Delaware County Daily Times, Father kills son in domestic dispute:
Smythe said he personally knows Caldwell, a pastor at the End Times Harvest Mission for Christ in Philadelphia, to be a “very good man.” [Clergy killing their own children is how God knows one is a good man, says Judges 11:29-39.]

Gawker, Teabagger Worried His Magic Prayers Made God Kill Sen. Inhofe: A panicked teabagger called up C-SPAN in tears today, worried that he accidentally killed Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe by praying for Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd to die. [Prayer can kill people, as anyone who has read Numbers 21:3 knows.]

Des Moines Register, Man taken to hospital after castrating self: Police said he told dispatchers he did it for religious reasons. [Clearly stated religious reasons found in Matthew 5:29-30.]

Mail Online, ‘Four-year campaign of abuse from parishioners’ forces village vicar and his family from home: ‘It has been the worst time of my life. I used to be a committed Christian, now I am agnostic. ‘If this is Christianity in action I don’t want anything to do with it.’ [That big baby doesn't know he got off easy, compared to what should have happened according to Deuteronomy 13:6-10.]

Detroit Free Press, Black clergy to sound AIDS alarm at meeting: The nation’s black church leaders have been “woefully silent, even though this is something that is destroying people,” the Rev. Horace Sheffield III, pastor of New Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, said Saturday. [Keeping silent is best, because sickness is only caused by lack of faith.  See Matthew 9:22.]

TPMMuckraker, Jetton Fought To Keep Ban On Gay Sex, Calling It ‘Deviate Sexual Intercourse’: Rod Jetton, the former Missouri House Speaker, fired a state lawmaker from his committee chairmanship in 2007 because the lawmaker had changed a bill in order to end a state ban on gay sex – or what Jetton called “deviate sexual intercourse.” Jetton was charged with felony assault Monday after a girlfriend alleged that he had beaten and choked her during a recent sexual encounter, in which she failed to use a mutually agreed upon “safe word.” The woman also suggested that Jetton may have slipped a date-rape drug into her glass of wine, causing her to lose consciousness. [That's what men of God do, don't you know.  Haven't you read Deuteronomy 21:1-14?]

IrishCentral, Irish Catholic nuns offer compensation for Church child sex abuse: The Sisters of Mercy in Dublin have offered $193 million in money and property to those who were abused by nuns in their order. [Those brats don't know how lucky they have it - try Psalm 137:9 on for size.]

NJ.com, Mom expected God to provide food, daughter testifies: Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up a meal, her kids told a jury yesterday. “We were supposed to wait for God to provide,” said Walker’s oldest daughter, now 21. “And that’s what we did.” At one point, the daughter said, she and her siblings went 11 days without food. When police were at last summoned to the Sussex County cabin by neighbors, investigators found the children so malnourished they had difficulty talking. [That's how God takes care of his flock, as seen in Exodus 16:14.]

All articles continue at links.  When you read about Christians doing crazy, violent, disgusting things, where do you think they get their ideas?  I have my suspicions…