And churches get robbed all the time. The ones here in Chicago are sometimes locked with thick metal chains, and the richer churches have ADT systems installed. It’s not because they think the signs are cute, it’s because some people are just deprived enough to rob a church.

Thieves don’t care who you are. They’re jackholes. Why is anyone surprised that a thief would rob a nun? It’s no more surprising that a jackhole robbed a woman wearing a habit than if had he robbed anyone else. I never understand why people think it’s so unbelievable when a church or a religious figurehead becomes the victim of a crime, because *criminals don’t care about people*. Or as I summarized it initially, “Why should their ridiculous costumes automatically exempt them from crime?” Got it now?

My comments were targeted at the presumed exceptionality of the story, not toward the criminal or the victim. I never said, or even implied, I supported the thief. I never said, or even implied, the nun deserved it. But being a nun doesn’t give a person any special protection from crime, so it’s no more newsworthy than anyone else getting robbed.

Read only the words I wrote, Rocky, not the ones you wish I had written.

Oh, and my life is fine, and my audience is awesome.

Seriously, man, evaluate your life.

Wow, got me there. Yet, I’m still waiting for you to explain how I depicted the thief as noble in any way.

I’d be very interested in the religious affiliation of the purse snatcher.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=number+of+atheists+in+prison+stati stics&meta=&aq=f&oq=

I hope those links are educational to you.

Then let the punishment fit the crime, sorta. When caught and convicted, he should receive raps on the knuckles with a ruler, equal in number to the cent value of what he stole. Throw in the cent value of the purse? (JC Penney, $29,99 = 2,999 raps added.) Add jail time, sitting in the front of the cell in student desk, in view of the others. Did I miss anything?