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Sweet bejesus, this is the weirdest, craziest shit I have ever seen. The Church of England congregations would have coronaries in their pews! Only in America…

“Jack Schaap, the former pastor of one of America’s biggest mega-churches, was sentenced yesterday for seducing a young parishioner by telling her Jesus wanted them to have sex. You see, if you use religion to manipulate people into giving up their virginity, you’ll be called a criminal. But if you use religion to manipulate people into giving up their money, you’ll be called a success.”

Ah, the irony.

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A TIPPLING PHILOSOPHER Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from skepticism to science, politics, and morality,...