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Man Accused Of Raping Two Boys At Ohio Church ConventionALBANY, Ohio – A 20-year-old man has been accused of raping two young boys at a church function being held in the Albany Community Center in Albany, Ohio on Saturday.

It was a statewide church convention sponsored by The Albany Bethel Apostolic Church that lasted throughout the weekend with church youth groups from around the state participating. One of the attendees was 20-year-old Richard Merryman. He traveled to the convention on a bus with family who were members of a church in Canton, Ohio.

While there, Merryman allegedly lured a five-year-old boy into the restroom stall where he removed the child’s pants and then performed oral sex on the child. Afterwards the boy’s family noticed something wasn’t right and asked him what was wrong. He told his parents who, along with the church pastor, called police. Merryman was arrested on the church bus before it left the parking lot. He was charged with one count of rape and is being held under $500,000 bond at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail in Nelsonville.

But it gets even worse. Merryman also is suspected of raping a 4-year-old boy in a stairwell on the same day at the same event. Rape charges for the act against the four-year-old are pending. Merryman has been in trouble with the law before having been charged with battery as a juvenile in Florida. No word yet on if those charges were sexual in nature.

Merryman is facing life in prison if prosecutors can prove there was force involved, and they are confident they can. “Since they were locked in a stall, I think we think we can prove it,” said Keller Blackburn, Athens County Assistant Prosecutor.

It may be hard to believe, but in my youth I spent a lot of time at these types of weekend church retreats (Oh how I miss you, Christmount, and that chick who let me grope her big tits while meditating in the woods. Do your soul some good, indeed) and it’s easy to see how easily this prick could operated completely undetected. Parents have a tendency to drop their guard at events like this because I mean, Jesus, who wants to imagine someone would be giving a 5-year-old a blowjob in the church bathroom, ya know?

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  • Skitz O’Frennick

    Since so many doubt God’s existence, this would have been the perfect time to show his Holy face and strike this sick bastard dead with a lightning bolt right in front of all His followers.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another winner from the state of Ohio with ties to Florida. There is something in their water or their air, their food…I don’t know what it is but it’s not good. This SOB is on a church retreat when he feels the urge to rape and orally copulate a couple boys. How much lower can you go? The majority of people are not like this and you would think if there is one place you and your kids should be safe and away from the underbelly of the world is in church or at a church function. The truth is, there is absolutely nowhere that is completely free of these types of predators. They ride on the bus and other public transportation next to us, they are in schools, they watch our kids, they live next door, they coach our kids, they eat at our dinner table. It’s a sickness with no cure. Once a pedophile,always a pedophile unless castrated. You just cannot be lax about anywhere your children are.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty much, if you want your kids to be safe you keep them out of situations where adults or older teens around them are given authority over them by God or an organization. Non-family predators will find places where they can be around kids in an authoritative position. Unfortunately, in many churches, anyone older than your kid is an authority figure.

    In most apostolic churches, the laying on of hands is a part of worship. It’s pretty easy for some perv to be all like “The Lord told me I need to lay hands on you” and next thing you know, some kid has a mouth on his dick or a dick in his ass, or some eleven year old girl has a virgin birth.

    I’m Ghandi-like on Christ. I’m good with hippie Jesus, but I don’t trust his followers. Church events aren’t any safer than any other large event. I’d sooner let my kid loose at a rave, where at least he can get anesthetized before the molesting commences.

  • Anonymous

    This is the type of fucker that you should warn humanity about.

    BTW, to the prosecution he’s broken so DO NOT let him out to society because he blew a baby, then raped his next crime’s gonna be MURDER.

    Whoever lets him out, the next victim’s blood will be on your hands.

  • Anonymous

    This is the type of fucker that you should warn humanity about.

    BTW, to the prosecution he’s broken so DO NOT let him out to society because he blew a baby, then raped his next crime’s gonna be MURDER.

    Whoever lets him out, the next victim’s blood will be on your hands.

  • Wicked Smilee

    Another case of someone a getting little “too hot” for jesus.

  • Wicked Smilee

    Another case of someone a getting little “too hot” for jesus.

  • Wicked Smilee

    Another case of someone a getting little “too hot” for jesus.

  • Anonymous

    I love your writeup’s Morbid, listened to the podcast the other day and took me by suprise, not quite what I expected for your voice..Keep up the great work : )

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    A lot of really evil people hide behind Churchianity.

    And a lot of good people are just too naive, too lulled by Church BS, too high on Jesus and stupid RW Christian Politics, to pay attention.

    Believe it or not, this was a problem at the big Talibangelical Megachurch I used to attend. Seemed like all the Nice Young Men who wanted to help with childcare during the service, or daycare between the services, or at the church school, were way too interested in dipping their wicks.

    Oh. Yeah. And then there was the time we found out that the Principal of the K-through-8 on-site school was regularly molesting the 8th-grade boys. He blackmailed them, basically. The church was supposed to call the parent before punishing (swats, usually) a child. This principal would call a misbehaving 12 or 13-year-old boy into his office, and offer to “forget to call the parents” if the child would just submit to his one-on-one discipline … which involved a bare-bottom spanking, and then a “kindly loving” rub-down with “salve” afterward, on the buttocks and “junk”, all while this asshole cooed at them about God’s Love.

    I was one of those dumb “good people.” I noticed my 12-year-old getting surly and sad and withdrawn, watched him go through hell and hysterics when his best friend from that school ran away from home, to surface six months later downtown, surviving by selling himself. I moved my boy to another school, but continued to attend church there. A few months later, the church was “praying for Bob & Beverly in their new mission”, and the Principal was moved on to some other school. I remember a “weird vibe” from the Elders while that was happening, but I still didn’t figure it out.

    I’d already kind of guessed that this principal was a smarmy oily hypocrite, but I also remember weeping before God for “doubting another of God’s servants.” Barf.

    8 years later, my beautiful beloved wonderful son “confessed” to me about this. He hadn’t told me because (wait for it) … his friend had told, and his parents beat him for “lying about the servants of God.” He called his friends to tell them not to tell their parents, and he went out the window and on to his new life as a juvenile delinquent and street rat. :-(

    My son told me he realized, years later, that I would have believed him, and he was sorry for not trusting me at the time I could have done something about it.

    I will always be angry that my church taught that “trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding” meant trust *ANY* damn fool in authority at that church, and pay no attention to your own memories, hunches, observations, or the clanging of your internal BS alarm.

    And don’t tell me “There are wonderful churches out there!” No. No there aren’t. I shopped for years. I still love Jesus, but his Fan Club — especially the creeps like that principal, and the mean RW Jerks who hide their racism, selfishness, hard-heartedness, and greed behind some smokescreen of “Dominionism”?

    They can all go hang.

  • Alpha7USA

    Castrate him. Kill him. Make him choke on this own phallus.
    Yawn. The same old talking points.
    At least the five year old can say he got his first blow job on a church trip. Bet he was smillin’ eye to eye after he got sucked on.