You'd think it was the Onion...

[Chad32]

I heard a story about a pastor getting his congregation to eat grass. Of course they got sick. Apparently now they're drinking petrol? I would think that if he led by example enough that he'd just die and maybe the congregation would be less stupid for it, but I'm not positive that would happen.

A pastor at a snake handling church died of snake poison. I'll give you a moment to get through the shocking surprise of that one. So his son decides to do the same thing.

There needs to be a stronger word for indoctrination and brainwashing. It just feels like those words aren't strong enough to describe people like this.

Would the word you're looking for be retarded? Even that doesn't seem to suffice because a person without mental capacity isn't capable of reaching the depths of stupidity as a religious person.

If they don't have brain damage yet, I'm sure it will come with enough grass and petrol.