Men of the Cloth

It’s getting so you can’t tell the cult-like, child-molesting, Christian churches from one another without a scorecard.

The small towns of Washburn, Mo. and Blanco, Texas, were both recently rocked when they learned that their local, isolated, churches were actually cult-like havens for pedophiles performing their misdeeds under the name of Christ. What’s more, neither of the churches is Roman Catholic!

In Missouri, five leaders of the Grand Valley Baptist Church North and Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church were arrested on a host of child-molesting charges, while in Texas, five monks from the Christ of the Hills Monastery (which had been affiliated with Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia) were arrested on similar charges.

So, can you match the church to the charges?

1). Leaders of THIS church molested at least five underage girls, the youngest being four years old, going back to the 1970s.
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills


2). Leaders of THIS church molested at least three teenaged boys going back to the 1990s.
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills


3). Leaders of THIS church gave drugs and alcohol to their underage victims before making them perform oral sex or participate in orgies.
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills

4). Leaders of THIS church molested their victims as part of religious ceremonies during which they were told that their bodies were being prepared for “service to God.”
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills


5). Leaders of THIS church called the sexual touching of their victims “angel kisses.”
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills

6). In addition to the molestation charges, leaders of THIS church fraudulently placed rose-scented water on a painting of the Virgin Mary, only to claim that the icon was weeping real tears as a way to attract money-donating visitors to the site.
A. Grand Valley Baptist
B. Christ of the Hills


ANSWERS
1). A: Grand Valley Baptist, whose pastor, George Otis Johnston, told at least one of his victims that he was “ordained by God to fulfill her needs as a woman.”

2). B: Christ of the Hills, which Blanco County Sheriff William Elsbury called “a pedophile factory.”

3). B: Christ of the Hills, which chose as victims for these orgies young men who were receiving religious training at the monastery

4). A: Grand Valley Baptist

5). A: Grand Valley Baptist

6). B: Christ of the Hills. “It’s a scam,” said sheriff Elsbury of the monastery’s famous crying icon. “They would go in there at different times out of public view and place tears on there with an eyedropper. They got a lot of people snowed.”