Then there's that whole "stupidity" thing....

Funny, I was going to say Righteousness.

I think a picture of priest nailing a nun to a cross because *he* thinks *she* is evil, ought to be in the dictionary, next to sin.

It was for her own good.

We read it on the internet, so it must be true. And, you know, let's assume the possession for a moment, because how often can we do that, in polite conversation. That's some theology there, huh? Kill someone in a state of sin, rather than try to help them out of it.

Kill someone in a state of sin, rather than try to help them out of it.

I guess I can't quite be devil's advocate here, but ... better dead and in the arms of her God, than infected by Satan?

I'm still boggling as to how someone dying as a result of crucifixion is a "miracle." I'd think the opposite would be true.

In less upsetting news, The LA Times' "wikitorial" trial has been halted:

US newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, has temporarily ended its short-lived trial which gave readers the chance to edit its editorials on its website.

The online version of the paper started its "wikitorial" experiment last week. It was meant to give readers a "voice".

It was suspended after it was bombarded with inappropriate material. But the paper said it might try the idea again.

[eta: Apparently they blame Slashdot:

During most of Friday and Saturday, readers thoughtfully altered the editorial. By Friday afternoon, hundreds had weighed in. Some did add profanity but just as quickly a Web master from the paper took it down.

"Nothing bad happened really until after midnight on Saturday," said Michael Newman, deputy editorial page editor. At 8:32 p.m. Saturday, a posting on www.Slashdot.org, which bills itself as "news for nerds," directed readers to the Times wikitorial.

"Slashdot has a tech-savvy audience that, to be kind, is mischievous and to be not so kind, is malicious," Mr. Newman said. "We were taking stuff down as soon as it went up and staving them off. Finally we had to go to bed. Someone called the newsroom a little bit before 4 a.m. and said there's something bad on your Web site, and so we just took the whole site down." ]

I guess I can't quite be devil's advocate here, but ... better dead and in the arms of her God, than infected by Satan?

But if she dies in a state of sin, isn't that kind of a flaw in the plan?

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I guess I can't quite be devil's advocate here

But if you're possessed, aren't you sort of the innocent victim? It's sorta' like once someone becomes a vampire - we don't really blame them for what the vampire did.

Anyway, I think the priest thougth he was freeing her from evil. And maybe automatic state-of-sin-resetting happens when one is crucified for demonic possession....