What a tragedy when the question becomes 'Who Would Jesus Kill?'

What is it about Texans and dragging people behind a vehicle? The tragic death of James Byrd, Jr., an African American, who was dragged to death by two white men made national headlines a few years ago. Byrd was targeted by the men because of his race.

Recently, a Texas pastor was arrested and charged with dragging a girl at a Christian camp. Reuters reports:

A Texas pastor and a colleague have been charged with tying a 15-year-old girl to a van and dragging her along the ground after she refused to continue an exercise run at a Christian "boot camp," police said on Sunday.

Charles Flowers, senior pastor at the Faith Outreach Center, an evangelical church in the San Antonio suburb of Schertz, was arrested on Friday along with the camp counselor, Stephanie Bassitt, the Nueces County Sheriff's department said in a statement.

The alleged incident took place in June and was reported to police by the mother of the girl, who was hospitalized for unspecified injuries.

WTF is wrong with these people?

The camp claims to strive to "prepare young men and women to positively impact their world with the principles of Christ as their foundation" and is "designed to build character and instill discipline, integrity, unity, and morality back into their lives."

So these morons think that dragging a young girl will instill integrity and bring morality into her life?

In California, another pastor has asked his followers to pray for his critics to die. The Los Angeles Times reports:

Wiley S. Drake, a Buena Park pastor and a former national leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, called on his followers to pray for the deaths of two leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

The request was in response to the liberal group's urging the IRS on Tuesday to investigate Drake's church's nonprofit status because Drake endorsed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president on church letterhead and during a church-affiliated Internet radio show.

Drake said Wednesday he was "simply doing what God told me to do" by targeting Americans United officials Joe Conn and Jeremy Leaming, whom he calls the "enemies of God."

"God says to pray imprecatory prayer against people who attack God's church," he said. "The Bible says that if anybody attacks God's people, David said this is what will happen to them. . . . Children will become orphans and wives will become widows."

Imprecatory prayers are alternately defined as praying for someone's misfortune, or an appeal to God for justice.

Again, WTF is wrong with these people? They clearly break the rules, and when called on their actions respond by praying for their "enemies" to die?

Notice that Drake didn't respond to the claim of violating federal tax law. I wonder how he will respond when the IRS decides to yank his tax-exempt status, which could clearly happen.

Do these two pastors have ANY understanding of what it means to be "Christian?" I seriously doubt it.