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March 30, 2003

American exceptionalism

Christian Fundamentalism

American exceptionalism: The nation often has invoked faith in waging its conflicts. A subtext has been a belief that we have been uniquely blessed by God.

March 24, 2003

Francis Bacon's Sages of the Seventh Seal

Wishful Thinking

Sir Francis Bacon's Sages of the Seventh Seal, Bruton Parish Church graveyard

Psychic brings dead cat to life

Psychics & Other Frauds

Psychics can bring dead pets back, at least some morons think so.

Afterlife Experiments

Psychics & Other Frauds

Critiquing the Afterlife Experiments of Gary Schwartz

March 23, 2003

Projects Twinkle & Aztec

UFOs & Bogus Science

UFO conspiracy theories and project Twinkle and Aztec.

Delusional Mormons

Superstitious Folly

Mormons, Revelations 13:13

Saddam Hussein's UFO

UFOs & Bogus Science

UFOs are Saddam's secret - UFO watchers claim

NM House Vote Honors UFOs

UFOs & Bogus Science

Extraterrestrial Culture Day on the 2nd Tuesday of February.

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference

Hodgepodge

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference: morons united.

Atheists vs. Alabama Governor

Skeptics & Atheists

American Atheist Challenges Alabama Governor's Bible Study

Morons mutilate textbooks

Miseducation

Textbooks: fossil fuels imply evolution, contradict Bible.

March 20, 2003

Teachers vs. science

Miseducation

Professor encounters resistance while training teachers about evolution

Holy Writ

Skeptics & Atheists

Christopher Hitchens on Islam and Western writers.

Rick Warren's feel-good evangelism

Christian Fundamentalism

Bush well understands that Warren's brand of feel-good evangelism plays well with the mass audience that comes with the bully pulpit of the presidency

Unholy Ice Cream

Cheap Laughs

Ice creams named after the seven deadly sins

Lily Dale, New York

Psychics & Other Frauds

Lily Dale: The True Story of Town that Talks to the Dead

March 19, 2003

Mr. Porter said Lisa was having a battle with Satan

Superstitious Folly

Evil spirits, Satan.

March 18, 2003

Left by Her Husband, Hurt by Her Church

Hodgepodge

Efrain Lopez Returned to the Priesthood in 1992, Leaving His Wife of 20 Years $60,000 in Debt

Potential investors held hands, prayed

Hodgepodge

Religious scam

Secret Bible clue to bin Laden

Superstitious Folly

Messages encoded in the Old Testament provide clues to Osama bin Laden.

March 17, 2003

Bible prophecy influences Bush?

Christian Fundamentalism

Iraq is Babylon

March 16, 2003

Von Daniken's Mystery Park

UFOs & Bogus Science

Outside Interlaken in Switzerland, Von Daniken's Mystery Park

Exclusive Brethren

Superstitious Folly

Exclusive Brethren Revelation Devil

God is a carp

Superstitious Folly

Skver sect of Hasidim in New Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has revealed himself in fish form.

Mike Murdock

Christian Fundamentalism

Trinity Foundation: Mike Murdock televangelist lavish lifestyle

Alistair Crowley an influence on L. Ron Hubbard?

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Alistair Crowley

March 15, 2003

Secularism in retreat

Christian Fundamentalism

Secular liberalism's worst nightmare

CSICOP opens NYC office

Skeptics & Atheists

CSICOP opens Manhattan office.

The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah

Absurd Inurbane Witless

The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah by Brian David Mitchell

March 14, 2003

Urinotherapy

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Gullible people drink their own piss: urinotherapy, another bogus miracle cure

Michael Newdow

Skeptics & Atheists

Michael Newdow: Freedom From Religion -- That Too Is a Right

March 13, 2003

Sex leads to 'love' illness

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Tindzhaka illness from sleeping with unclean widow.

Michael Shermer: Baloney Detection

Skeptics & Atheists

March 11, 2003

Cyber-psychics

Psychics & Other Frauds

Cyber-psychics do their readings across the miles

Extraterrestrial Culture Day

UFOs & Bogus Science

Rep. Dan Foley, a Republican from Roswel : Happy Space Alien Day!

March 10, 2003

Direst of Predictions For War in Iraq

Christian Fundamentalism

End-Time Interpreters See Revelation. Chapter 16 Prophecies Being Fulfilled by war in Iraq

March 9, 2003

Atheism 101

Skeptics & Atheists

Atheists aren't agnostics, atheism isn't agnosticism.

Supersitions rise in war time

Skeptics & Atheists

Prof Giora Keinan of Tel Aviv University found that superstitious beliefs were more prevalent in regions exposed to missile attacks

Boys' urine in high demand - for cooking eggs

Asian , • Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Chinese gourmet cooking

Annual ritual at the Poochiyur temple

Superstitious Folly

Tamil Nadu is probing the ritual involving a priest stepping on devotees' backs while wearing sandals with nails

Mystery girl of Ubin

Superstitious Folly

Pulau Ubin temple the remains of a WWI German girlattracting devotees

Bush "a hired Christian thug."

Wearisome Bedfellows

Bush "a hired Christian thug." Bush, the Bible, and Iraq

Satan's football mascot

Cheap Laughs

Westlake Ohio Satanic demon mascot

March 8, 2003

70% of religious conservatives favor war

Christian Fundamentalism

Religious Right Found Likeliest to Favor War

Musicians jailed as Satanists

Superstitious Folly

Casablanca heavy metal musicians jailed for satanism

March 7, 2003

Public prayer fanatics borrow page from enemy's script

Christian Fundamentalism

Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional "one nation under god"

March 6, 2003

Exeter’s UFO kid dead at 55

UFOs & Bogus Science

Death Seacoast resident Norman Muscarello, 55, his UFO sighting

Betty Hill's Interrupted Journey

UFOs & Bogus Science

Betty & Barney Hill's UFO abduction, interrupted journey

March 5, 2003

Genie Circumcised Her Infant Son

Superstitious Folly

JAKARTA Indonesia Genie Circumcised Infant

The Spirit Of Diana

Cheap Laughs

The Spirit Of Diana: Princess Di Dying To Reveal Psychic Obsession

Give Me that Online Religion

Wishful Thinking

Internet praying: Give Me that Online Religion

March 4, 2003

The great crystal homeopathy hoax

New Age (Old Silliness)

"Weeping" statue of the Virgin Mary at Rockingham

Superstitious Folly

March 2, 2003

Terry Eagleton on fundamentalism

Christian Fundamentalism

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

Skeptics & Atheists