Welcome friends!
I’m curious. Are you one of those people so enamored of religion you simply cannot or will not recognize its all too obvious dark side? In your opinion is religion an unequivocally positive word? Are you perhaps a Christian who thinks people who do bad things in the name of religion simply have the misfortune of subscribing to the wrong religion? Well, if you are then I’m afraid you may have some explaining to do. I’m referring to an article I read in the newspaper the other day about an ostensibly Christian church rather ironically named the Word of Life Christian Church in the US state of New York that recently saw six of its parishioners taken into custody for beating a young man to death, inside the church mind you, and nearly managing to do the same to his younger brother. Did I mention two of the miscreants were the teens’ parents?
Yes, it seems the ever so holy Bruce and Deborah Leonard along with at least four of their fellow church members were holding what police chief Michael Inserra rather euphemistically described as a “counseling session” to address the spiritual state (whatever that might be) of the two young brothers, Lucas (age 19) and Christopher (age 17), and the counseling ended with Lucas dead and Christopher in the hospital... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
