The Lord works in mysterious ways, 2/20

Religious followers believe their god protects and guides them. But god never shows up. Every religion is led only by humans, who often turn out to be charlatans, swindlers, or perverts.

Alabama: Judge denies request to reduce bond for former church daycare worker charged with child sex abuse

Christian school in Arizona knew principal has sexually assaulted a student in Canada, but forgave him

Colorado pastor ordered to repay family more than $300,000 for construction project; “This man lied to us”

Florida pastor allegedly ran sprawling Home Depot theft ring

Miami-Dade pastor accused of molesting 15-year-old at church

Kentucky: Baptist minister charged with sexual assault of juvenile

Massachusetts diocese confirms sex abuse allegation from 1970s against priest who served in Springfield, Ware, Greenfield

Michigan: DOJ charges church ‘prophetess’ in multi-state forced labor scheme

Mississippi: Former Horn Lake music minister receives 20-month prison sentence for child sex crime

New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to $180 million settlement of clergy sexual abuse allegations

This is what you’re funding, if you pay tithes and offerings to the Catholic Church.

North Carolina: Longtime Baptist pastor dismissed after sex allegations, church says

North Dakota: Former West Fargo church business manager indicted for embezzling over $600,000

Ohio: Former music pastor is accused of killing his wife, and staging the scene to look like a home invasion

Oklahoma pastor gets 13 years in prison for molesting 11-year-old daughter

South Dakota: Pastor, wife forced adopted kids to eat trash, shot pet dog and made kids bury it: police

Tennessee: Memphis pastor is second man arrested in sex crime involving child

Wisconsin: Kaukauna Catholic teacher on paid leave pleads guilty to 17 child sex offenses, 13 dismissed

Of course, the vast majority of crooked or pervy religious leaders get away with everything. Of those that are caught, many are quietly reassigned to other duties, not defrocked or punished. Of the few cases that aren’t hushed up, there’s no knowing how many make the news, but undoubtedly I miss most of them, in compiling this list.

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