The most-read In the World posts

Here are Steve Thorngate's most-read posts of the year:

1) Why is John Oliver's televangelism segment about the IRS? The government is almost always reluctant to distinguish between naughty churches and nice ones, and for a really good reason: the separation of church and state.

2) Wait, why is Ben Carson a vegetarian? At the risk of going all Get Religion over nothing: it’s a little weird to read articles about Ben Carson’s vegetarianism that fail to mention that the presidential candidate is a member of a church that promotes vegetarianism.