Every time I get to thinking that the traditional Christian storyline is so bizarre, so self-evidently ridiculous, that nobody could possibly believe it, that religion has more to do with community and group identity than actual belief, along comes a story like this:
Pastor Aracely Meza [https://t.co/X9bLB3K6zv] who starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison https://t.co/fE2qJEGFds
— Religion News (@religionnews) March 24, 2018
Though race, ethnicity, abortion, sexual identity, on and on, are all predictable flashpoints, I grow more and more convinced as the years go by that the great dividing line in American life is education. And I don’t mean by that merely the accumulation of bald facts and analytical habits of thought; I mean the self-confidence that goes with a good education, the sense of fitness it engenders. What but a sense of helplessness before a world gone out of control could lead to the deranged idea that a toddler is possessed by a supernatural demon that must be starved to death?