Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Pastor Convicted for Selling Steroids

I always wondered where bodybuilders scored their steroids. Who knew the pushers were Lutheran pastors?

A Karelian court sentenced a Lutheran pastor to three years in prison Monday for illegally selling steroids to bodybuilders, Interfax reported.

The Petrozavodsk City Court found Andrei Antonov, 44, pastor of the city's Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, guilty of organizing a criminal group in 2007 with a friend, Gennady Yeroshkin, who worked for Karelia's Federation of Bodybuilders. The two men were accused of selling illegal steroids to bodybuilders at a gym in Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic in northwestern Russia.

Was it just for the money or for the thrill. What drives a man to commit a crime when he should know better. What drives a pastor to disregard his calling? If a pastor will do this, what else will he do? Where does he get his moral grounding?

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