Praise be to dog...

In an amazing show of daftness a Rabbinical court in Israel recently sentenced a dog to be stoned to death. Why would such an act of anti-canine violence be justified you might well ask, did this dog bite some religious bigwig in the bum? Nope, in an all too familiar attack on secular criticism the stray dog wondered into the court and wouldn't leave, so therefore the proper conclusion is that the poor animal had become possessed by the spirit of a secular lawyer who challenged the court 20 years before, i.e. someone who attacked the sect. Such "interpretation" of the real world to support the narrow (vested) interests of a deluded few is commonplace in religion. More alarming in this case was that the judges from the court wanted the children of the district to perform the stoning, children stoning animals to death, just how cynical can you get in the name of religion before your constituents should start picking up rocks and looking at you through narrowed eyes..?

Anyway, the possession of the dog is certain to be untrue, everyone knows lawyers never infect loyal creatures like dogs, it's always rats or cockroaches, surely?

Update: Looks like this story may be a prank, lots of furious denials going on today..