From the Daily Kos<\/a>. To be fair, there is only so much that one can blame on sidekicks. Clearly one's concept of God must by definition be wrong, if it is incompatible with the fact there are people who say and do the exact opposite to the themselves, who also genuinely believe that they are God's appointed crime-fighting partners. <\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the Daily Kos. To be fair, there is only so much that one can blame on sidekicks. Clearly one’s concept of God must by definition be wrong, if it is incompatible with the fact there are people who say and do the exact opposite to the themselves, who also genuinely believe that they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1040,1625,4005,8739],"class_list":["post-19686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-batman","tag-cartoon","tag-god","tag-parody"],"yoast_head":"\n
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