# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/201 "2022-11-30T04:29:23Z")
Here’s a non-Christian, Non-American example it appears. The four priests at a Thai temple all tested positive for meth, which seems pretty crazy, especially when the locals were giving the priests gifts/offerings to earn merits in their religion. Though with how cheap the meth in Thailand can be, perhaps the drugs were offerings. > **[Every monk in Thai temple defrocked after testing positive for meth](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/monks-meth-temple-thailand/)** > > "The temple is now empty of monks and nearby villagers are concerned they cannot do any merit-making," an official said. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/202 "2022-12-12T21:30:58Z")
Seriously, what the fuck??? > **[Self-proclaimed “prophet” had sex with underage wives’ father while forcing...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/self-proclaimed-prophet-had-sex-with-underage-wives-father-while-forcing-them-to-watch/ar-AA158h8Y?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=07e0350607714f51bbbf60c6ce186b80)** > > Samuel Bateman was recently arrested after police discovered that he allegedly had 20 wives, most under the age of 15... ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/203 "2022-12-12T22:20:48Z")
“he allegedly had 20 wives, most under the age of 15.” No, he had 20 children who he had kidnapped and was raping. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/204 "2022-12-12T22:25:26Z")
I’m not religious in any sense except I religiously drink way too much Coca Cola every day. However, that is not a religion, that is a scam to get his disgusting paws on children, and mask his perversion. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/205 "2022-12-13T02:55:14Z")
> Police believe that three of Bateman’s older wives drove the eight girls to an Airbnb in Spokane where police intercepted them. That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/206 "2022-12-13T03:15:06Z")
I do wish the reports would not call them “wives”. They are underage rape victims. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/207 "2022-12-13T03:30:16Z")
I think the label “wives” is important in this case though, because it indicates the complicity of the community in legitimizing this abuse. These child rape victims were given an official status and title that authorized the abuser to rape them, which IMHO brings about 95% of the horrific in this situation. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/208 "2022-12-13T03:37:13Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I think the label “wives” is important in this case though, because it indicates the complicity of the community in legitimizing this abuse. Agreed. A kidnapping rapist usually acts alone or with a partner. This is a whole group of people responsible for this atrocity. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/209 "2022-12-13T03:38:43Z")
And they should use the word “wives” in quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/210 "2022-12-13T18:08:45Z")
And any father that would allow his wife and daughters to be raped should sterilized for the greater good. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/211 "2022-12-13T18:39:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > And they should use the word “wives” in quotes. I think “child brides” works better. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/212 "2022-12-13T18:45:13Z")
“Victims”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/213 "2022-12-13T20:46:38Z")
Yeah, “child brides” is ambiguous since it is frequently used to refer to underage girls married or betrothed to husbands—who may be adult men or underage boys—in certain traditions of arranged (legal) marriage. To complicate the situation further, child couples betrothed before they reach local legal marriage age often don’t live together or consummate their union until they’re legal. So “child brides” is unsatisfactory as a term denoting specifically “underage girls sexually abused and raped by a man illegally (but with community acceptance and support) claiming them as his ‘wives’ in a polygynous marriage”. It’s a disgrace that our society has a need for such a term in the first place, but given that it does, “child brides” doesn’t quite cut it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/214 "2022-12-13T20:51:51Z")
Underage cult rape slave. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/215 "2022-12-13T21:10:28Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > cult rape [Gene Wilder voice] Strike that. Reverse it. [/GWv] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/216 "2022-12-14T14:19:36Z")
> **[Florida pastor and his son are arrested in alleged $8 million Covid scam](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/feds-arrest-florida-pastor-and-his-son-in-8-million-covid-scam/ar-AA15gFEn?cvid=bc9258ec86044042a472fffe75f41940)** > > An NBC News report in July raised questions about why they hadn’t been charged in the alleged scam, which prosecutors outlined in court papers in late 2020. I’m sure, in some way, he did it for Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/217 "2022-12-15T16:47:08Z")
God told them he wanted them to have a luxury home near Disney world and who are they to defy God’s will. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/218 "2022-12-15T18:43:46Z")
Quintessential Florida Man does Florida things outside his state. > **[VIDEO: Man fired after blocking Latino man from entering his own apartment...](https://abc7news.com/apex-systems-william-beasley-parking-garage-confrontation-sf-fight/6268595/)** > > The San Francisco couple caught on camera attempting to keep a Latino man from entering his apartment building in San Francisco defended their actions in this exclusive interview. > [@](#): > > A white SUV with Florida plates pulled in ahead of him and, instead of proceeding forward, stopped at the entrance of one of the building’s garages and stopped Michael from going inside. “His immediate reaction was ‘hey you f\*\*king criminal, you’re not coming in here.’”[according to Barajas, which, you’ll notice, ABC article stupidly didn’t indicate] Racist Florida man loss his job over it, and hilariously comes across as a douche when interviewed later on. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/219 "2022-12-15T19:12:01Z")
^ Wrong thread - meant the stupid MFers in the news thread. 👏 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/220 "2022-12-15T19:14:16Z")
I’m sure he had Jesus in mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=12)