• Feds charge Catholic “vow of poverty” friar with fundraising under multiple false aliases

• Catholic school safe environment coordinator fired after arrest for possessing child porn

• Mormon church broadens restrictions for transgender members

• Pastor gets 18 months for $3.5-million COVID scam

• Doctor says accused rapist priest has dementia, trial date set

• After a series of sexual and moral scandals at Texas megachurch, worship attendance drops only 17-19%

• Several North Texas pastors step down, removed for “moral failures,” “immoral” behavior, and in some cases, sexual abuse

• Brazilian priest abused young girls, forced one to have abortion

• Former youth minister is charged with 30 counts of sexual battery

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Wind can be measured by its effect on the physical reality we can confirm is objective through observation and experimentation; imaginary friends need believers to have any effect at all, otherwise dead gods and gods with no followers would be measurably different categories.