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Lotter trial: Satan (or maybe God) made me do it

Lotter trial: Satan (or maybe God) made me do it

Posted November 26, 2011 by Jacques Rousseau

The trial of the Lotter siblings for murdering their parents will resume in March 2012. At that point, we’ll hopefully start hearing evidence which corresponds to more reasonable hypotheses for why they committed these crimes, instead of tales involving tokoloshes and demonic possession.

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Beware the evangelicals

Posted December 14, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

How can we not caricature religious beliefs, when the only religious pronouncements that reach the public media sound like bad attempts at satire?

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