Fast Track

Although the good Lord gave us our filthy worldly appetites the better to renounce His sinful creation and draw closer to Him, it seems that even the sacred practice of askesis can be carried too far for the secular arm. A cult leader in Kenya has been arrested and twenty-one of his late dupes exhumed after he apparently ordered them to starve themselves closer to Jesus. Among those who suffered to come unto Him in this instance were at least three children, and police are expecting to uncover further congregants as the investigation proceeds. In their capacity as representatives of the eternal moral law, the Saviour and His Father have thus far taken their usual non-interventionist approach.