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Even the Mugabe's of this world can be forgiven...

The purpose of any organised church is the marketing of salvation and all privileges or indignities on the way thereto.
In other words, it's don't kill and don't steal, but...it is in the sawy merchandising of ifs and buts that they prosper.
He killed BUT (we certify that) he repented...he raped the choir boy IF you can prove it to our satisfaction...
When pinned on this, that or another inconsistency, they can always say god's will works in mysterious ways and that human nature is fallible.
When engaging in this splitting of hairs and devil advocacy in the defense of their causes, brain imaging shows that

Behavioral data showed a pattern of emotionally biased reasoning: partisans denied obvious contradictions for their own candidate that they had no difficulty detecting in the opposing candidate. Importantly, in both their behavioral and neural responses, Republicans and Democrats did not differ in the way they responded to contradictions for the neutral control targets, such as Hanks, but Democrats responded to Kerry as Republicans responded to Bush.

While reasoning about apparent contradictions for their own candidate, partisans showed activations throughout the orbital frontal cortex, indicating emotional processing and presumably emotion regulation strategies. There also were activations in areas of the brain associated with the experience of unpleasant emotions, the processing of emotion and conflict, and judgments of forgiveness and moral accountability.

PFFT!