11.03.2006

Mentally and spiritually Haggard.

The Ted Haggard scandal in a nutshell: the pastor of the 20th fastest-growing evangelical church in America--the "most powerful megachurch in America"--described as "the most important evangelical, period," who had weekly conference calls with George W. Bush, and decried gays, ends up confessing to buying meth from a gay prostitute he met looking for a massage. But, honest, he didn't have sex with that man.

Whatever.

What's more interesting to me than all this hypocrisy is the evangelical mindset that allows it, as illuminated here by British scientist Richard Dawkins:

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