New York Daily News religion editor, Charles W. Bell, has an interesting, if incomplete, take on 2004 in religion:
Summing up the year in religion isn't easy when one of stories involved the eBay auction of a 10-year-old grilled-cheese
sandwich bearing what the seller described as an image of the Virgin
Mary. The news was that it sold for $28,000
The buyer was an online casino that said it considered the sandwich a piece of pop art. The seller was a Florida homemaker who called the sandwich lucky - it helped her win $70,000 playing the slots, she said.
And 2004 was also the year a dozen members of congress hosted a reception in the Senate Building for the founder of the Unification Church, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who was crowned there in a ritual proclaiming him the "Second Coming." He used the occasion to announce that thanks to him, Hitler and Stalin had been "born again."
According to Bell it just gets stranger and stranger after that.
(for Bell's complete column)
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