A group call Operation Zhero provides counseling for victims, particularly veterans, of PTSD. That sounds great and all, but there’s a problem in how they go about it: First of all, PTSD is a complex condition often accompanied by depression, severe anxiety and substance abuse. Some patients are suicidal or psychotic. Secondly, as reported recently by the Register’s Tony Leys, Operation Zhero provides PTSD treatment through unlicensed volunteer counselors who deliver seven hours of therapy and dispense no medication. There... Read more

Steven Anderson is the pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, and he really doesn’t like gay people. Like, he thinks they should be murdered. Oh, and Caitlin Jenner too. Oh, and the victims of the Paris shooting had it coming. Why? For listening to metal music. Winner. Anderson has been planning a “soul-winning mission” to South Africa for a while now, but because he is such a, to put it kindly, despicable sack of particularly fetid monkey shit, South African... Read more

Yet another example of religion being used as a shield to continue abysmal behavior rather than as an influence to unmake it: Also arrested was David Donald Hoppenjan, 52, who has served as senior pastor at the First United Methodist Church of Pace, just outside Pensacola, since last year. Police said Hoppenjan traveled to two locations in an effort to have sex with a 14-year-old boy. Hoppenjan spent nine years as executive pastor at Shalimar United Methodist Church in Florida, according... Read more