Pastor Steals church and brags about it on his blog
Don’t know how I missed this one. Dateline Ripon, CA…
For nearly a decade, members of Ripon’s First Congregational Church bared their souls to Pastor Randall Radic. But clearly it didn’t work both ways. There were certain things he wasn’t telling them.
That became obvious a year ago, when Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them. He used the money to buy himself a brand-new black BMW and a laptop — exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his double life as a sinner.
“We didn’t know anything until we got a call from the bank that he had bought a BMW,” said David Prater, who led the church board during Radic’s tenure. “He drove that car right down Main Street.”
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But Radic’s lawyer said last week that the 54-year-old former pastor, who spent six months in jail awaiting trial, will not have to serve any more time behind bars because he agreed to testify about the alleged murder confession of a jailmate.
So not only is he a thief, but he turns on his cell mates.
First, Radic faked documents giving him possession of the parsonage, and used the property to take out about $200,000 in personal loans, prosecutors said. Then he forged papers saying he had the power to sell the church, and sold it to a couple for $525,000.
After investigators began inquiring about the BMW, Radic fled to Denver. Prosecutors coaxed him back, and he was arrested in 2005.
Why do they always come to Colorado?
So where is Radic and his faith today?
Radic, who still lives in Ripon, did not find a buyer for “SNITCH,” but he did sign a deal last month to publish a book called “The Sound of Meat,” billed as a “(fairly) truthful” memoir.
“So, you really want to know which camp I belong to … right? Saint or … Sinner?” he wrote on his Web page, which features grainy shots of a nearly naked woman and a portrait of Radic smoking and drinking. “The truth really is a lot more complicated. It leads down the winding paths of the human heart and challenges anyone who follows to defy it.”
Somehow, that strikes me as the only true thing he has said in a while. (Source)
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Wow, you don’t see this making big headlines, but if the pastor was a Imam (Muslim), it prob would be, and the BMW money would have been linked to “terroism” or something.