The Naked and the Damned

“I got quite a shock when I opened the door leading into the boiler room,” said Lawrence, Mass., police officer Frank A. Biancardi. He had been called to a church to investigate a break-in. In the basement, he discovered a naked man who had tried to nail himself to a cross. “He was screaming religious quotes, and there was blood all over the place. He was bleeding from the palm of his right hand and from the middle finger of the left hand.” Meanwhile, a man at the New Holy Cross Church in Trenton, N.J., said some prayers, stripped naked, and fought off the church’s bishop when he tried to cover him. “I promised him a prayer if he’d put his pants back on,” Bishop Willie Jones said. Last, Arnold Fison, 49, was arrested after praying naked at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. He said it was his right to pray naked, but refused to explain that theory further. “I’m not really interested in discussing theology at the moment,” he said, testifying naked from the dock at his trial. He also noted his “ultimate ambition” was to become a bishop. He was sentenced to a month in jail for “offensive conduct”. (AP [2], Australian AP) ...“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” —Genesis 2:25.