Back in June I wrote about the arrest of John Balyo, a popular Christian DJ who really likes children.

Prior to being arrested, the Christian radio personality was praised for his work sponsoring children through Compassion International and was even video recorded meeting his “compassion child” in Uganda. In the video, now littered with comments and accusations, Balyo is asked, “John I have to ask you. You’ve just met your sponsored child, what are you gonna do next?” Balyo responds to the Christian radio interviewer, “I tell you what, this is a whole lot better than Disney World.”

You may notice two things. The excerpt above said “Prior to being arrested.” You will also notice I said that Balyo really likes children. I didn’t say he really cares about children, otherwise he wouldn’t try to have sex with them, a crime to which he has just confessed. Turns out Balyo had a habit of raping children while the man who procured those children watched:

A Grand Rapids, Michigan Christian radio broadcaster was sentenced on Monday to at least 25 years in prison for the rape of an 11-year-old boy. According to the Battle Creek Enquirer, 35-year-old John Balyo plead guilty to the sexual assault, which Balyo arranged with the help of another man, Ronald L. Moser, 42, of Battle Creek, who has admitted to procuring boys for Balyo to have sex with. According to court documents, Moser brought the unnamed victim to a Fairfield Inn, where he and Balyo showered with the young boy, then photographed him before inducing him to perform oral sex on the Christian radio host as Moser watched.

In fact, Balyo was arrested for this heinous crime at the Big Ticket Christian music festival. According to another source, upon searching Balyo’s storage unit, “police found a “bondage” kit that included handcuffs, chains and duct tape.” Add to that the fact that Moser, Balyo’s accomplice, was a close personal friend of the family he victimized and you have exhibit A against anybody who says Christianity makes people more moral.

All of this prompted the victim’s mother to submit a biting letter that was read aloud during the proceeding:

The victim’s mother wrote a statement that was read aloud in court. In it, she said that “children should be loved and respected. They are not here to be used and abused. No child should be scared of people or of life itself. I think you should sit and rot in jail the rest of your miserable life.”

And this is after the police caught Balyo and Moser and stopped them from violating other children.

But imagine what a suitable letter about god would look like. If you believe in god then you cannot argue that god was there. He was there when Moser took the boy and god was there when he watched a DJ who’d made a career of promoting the bible violate him. The boy was likely a Christian and, therefore, likely prayed to god for it stop and continued to pray even after god ignored all his previous cries. God watched, god listened, and god did nothing. Maybe he was too busy helping Tim Tebow land a career in broadcasting. At best you can say god’s plan was to sort out justice later, maybe. If the police had taken that approach they’d be on trial right beside Balyo.

But thankfully, once more, people were better than god. It’s a pity that two of god’s followers weren’t up to humanity’s standard.

And what if the judge had taken god’s approach to morality? What if someone innocent had offered to take their place in prison (see the example of Jesus)? What should the judge have said? Well, obviously he should’ve said that jailing an innocent accomplishes nothing, and to punish someone who wasn’t guilty of the crime would obviously not amount to justice.

Or what if the judge had instantly forgiven the perpetrators because they were followers of the correct religion? After all, that’s what Jesus does if you believe.

Not only should these two motherfuckers rot in jail, but their presence behind bars should serve as a reminder to how grateful we should be that humans understand justice and compassion far better than the bible and any of its characters.