The rules are for you - not for me.

Ever notice how many religious people seems to have the sense that the Biblical rules are for the rest of us, but not for them? Gay marriage is going to ruin traditional marriage, but my three divorces are in keeping with God's intention? They want to post the "Ten Commandments" including the admonition that "Thou shalt not kill," but my need to own a gun to kill bad guys somehow supersedes that commandment?  Yeah - it's like that all of the time. Abortion is murder, but once the little feckers are born, "no soup for you!" That's the nature of religion - sounding holy without really having to live up to that standard.

From Crooks and Liars...
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Christian Metal Rocker Arrested For Murder-For-Hire Attempt

By their works ye shall know them, I guess!

    Grammy-nominated As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis was arrested in Oceanside on Tuesday on suspicion of hiring a hit man to murder his estranged wife, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Lambesis, 32, was charged on three federal counts -- one count of solicitation to commit murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit crime.

    The Times' L.A. Now reported that Lambesis "was arrested without incident while shopping. He is accused of attempting to find someone to kill his estranged wife, who lives in Encinitas." Authorities told L.A. Now that he had "attempted to hire an undercover sheriff's detective for the murder."

    A representative for the band did not respond to requests for comment.

    Lambesis, an openly Christian heavy metal artist, had recently raised more than $78,000 from fans to fund his side project, Austrian Death Machine, a band mocking the film work of Arnold Schwarzenegger. For $500, Lambesis promised to be "your personal trainer for a month." The top prize, for those who spent $5,000, was to have the winner's initials tattooed on Lambesis' buttocks.