Four Wives, Two Religions, One Very Confused War Criminal

The former Liberian warlord-dictator Charles Taylor famously has a “have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too” mentality (he once used the campaign slogan , “He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him.”). His latest life-changing decision shows that he really hates to narrow his choices down to just one :

Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor has decided to convert to Judaism, one of his wives told the BBC.

Taylor, who is set to go on trial for war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, apparently discovered Judaism in prison in the Hague.

“He’s now a Jew. He’s practicing Judaism,” Victoria Taylor told BBC Radio June 2 after a three-week visit with her husband. “When he got to the Hague, he got to know that he really, really wanted to be a Jew, wanted to convert to Judaism.”

Victoria Taylor said her husband “does believe in Christ,” and that “he hasn’t rejected Christianity. He has always been a Christian. He just decided to become a Jew. He wants to follow the two religions.”