I get the occasional complaint from Wiccans that I never criticise “Xtians” which is followed by accusations about me being a “secret Christian” (this is the Wiccan version of the “secret Jew” charge the left likes to throw around) which ignore how absolutely horrible it is to live in a post Enlightenment country whose legal system is based on Judeo-Christian morality. You know, the legal system that keeps me from forming my pagan army and putting entire villages of fat, useless Wiccans to the sword as a tribute to the old gods which even now thirst for the blood of those who mock them with their perfidy and mincing self-righteousness!

Yeah. That legal system. You just can’t imagine how hard it is to live in a culture that has laws based on such awful “Christianist” concepts such as it being wrong to murder people (even Wiccans!) and that you aren’t supposed to rape or steal . Molest just a few autistic children during a hashish binge, as “Pagan friar” Philip Distasio did and there’s no end of bother, according to Wiccans like this one.

Clearly such nonsense is just another example of the callowness of modern Wicca, but I will admit to rarely seeking out stories where someone’s Christianity plays a role in some unfortunate event because, frankly, if you want some Christian bashing there are already several sites for that in existence.

But then I came across this story that needs to be told. I respect Christians but you can find some that are a little too “Christ-like” in their approach to dealing with criminals and other miscreants. Like opening your home to a needy “brother-in-Christ” who just got out of prison after a thirty-five year stretch for murdering a little boy during a kidnapping/rape. Christ-like sure, but stupid and disgusting when you have four children living in the house as well.

Even Jesus wouldn’t help out this degenerate, but some of his followers will:

CHICHESTER, N.H. —  A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town opened his doors to a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go.

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Guay already had a criminal record when he was charged in 1973, at age 25, with abducting and murdering a 12-year-old boy in Nashua. Authorities said he planned to sexually assault the boy, whose body was clad only in socks and undershorts.

Guay pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to up to 25 years. He kidnapped a Concord couple after briefly escaping from the nearby state prison in 1982 and was sent to a federal prison in California, where he stabbed an inmate in 1991, court records show.

After 35 years behind bars, he was released in September and ordered to serve his parole in New Hampshire. Guay’s release followed a failed attempt by state officials to keep him incarcerated as a dangerous sexual predator under federal law.

Guay went instead to a halfway house in Connecticut but was returned to New Hampshire last week. Residents of Concord, where Pinckney leads a nondenominational congregation, loudly protested plans to put him there.

A Concord prison chaplain contacted Pinckney, who agreed to take Guay in after meeting him and clearing it with his wife and four children, ages 13 to 18. Guay is staying there while he looks for a job and place to live.

Pinckney did not return calls or answer the door when a reporter visited his house, but he assured the town in an open letter published Tuesday that Guay poses no threat.

The good Reverend seems to be under the impression Guay is no longer a depraved monster because he’s been claiming to have been “born again” since the early 90s, immediately after sticking a shank in some other criminal I suppose.

There is nothing more wicked than inflicting evil upon others. Pastor Pickney is allowing someone who is little more than an animal into his community and worse, into his home and his family’s lives. His responsibility to his family is to keep them safe, but for the sake of pretentious grandstanding he will risk the lives of those he supposedly loves in a gesture a soulless miscreant like Guay will interpret as weakness.

As you can imagine his neighbors are not feeling as charitable as the pastor. This naive embrace of evil is one of the most unattractive doctrines of Christianity. Guay cannot be redeemed, not by love, not by grace and certainly not by a misguided pastor. Evil is a choice we make, not a state we are in that we can be saved from. Evil is a seed which we allow to bloom in our hearts. Evil doers cannot be made into good men and women simply by showing them some Christian charity, but can only be truly redeemed by atoning for their acts which means they have to have some sense of honor.

Guay may or may not kill again, but it is foolish to allow him to prove that point either way on your own family.