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March 30, 2003

American exceptionalism

Category: 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

Category: Wishful Thinking

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

Psychic brings dead cat to life

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

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

Afterlife Experiments

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Critiquing the Afterlife Experiments of Gary Schwartz

March 23, 2003

Projects Twinkle & Aztec

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

UFO conspiracy theories and project Twinkle and Aztec.

Delusional Mormons

Category: Superstitious Folly

Mormons, Revelations 13:13

Saddam Hussein's UFO

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

UFOs are Saddam's secret - UFO watchers claim

NM House Vote Honors UFOs

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Extraterrestrial Culture Day on the 2nd Tuesday of February.

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference

Category: Hodgepodge

Pennsylvania Paranormal Conference: morons united.

Atheists vs. Alabama Governor

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

American Atheist Challenges Alabama Governor's Bible Study

Morons mutilate textbooks

Category: Miseducation

Textbooks: fossil fuels imply evolution, contradict Bible.

March 20, 2003

Teachers vs. science

Category: Miseducation

Professor encounters resistance while training teachers about evolution

Holy Writ

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Christopher Hitchens on Islam and Western writers.

Rick Warren's feel-good evangelism

Category: 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

Category: Cheap Laughs

Ice creams named after the seven deadly sins

Lily Dale, New York

Category: 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

Category: Superstitious Folly

Evil spirits, Satan.

March 18, 2003

Left by Her Husband, Hurt by Her Church

Category: Hodgepodge

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

Potential investors held hands, prayed

Category: Hodgepodge

Religious scam

Secret Bible clue to bin Laden

Category: Superstitious Folly

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

March 17, 2003

Bible prophecy influences Bush?

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Iraq is Babylon

March 16, 2003

Von Daniken's Mystery Park

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Outside Interlaken in Switzerland, Von Daniken's Mystery Park

Exclusive Brethren

Category: Superstitious Folly

Exclusive Brethren Revelation Devil

God is a carp

Category: Superstitious Folly

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

Mike Murdock

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Trinity Foundation: Mike Murdock televangelist lavish lifestyle

Alistair Crowley an influence on L. Ron Hubbard?

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Alistair Crowley

March 15, 2003

Secularism in retreat

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Secular liberalism's worst nightmare

CSICOP opens NYC office

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

CSICOP opens Manhattan office.

The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah by Brian David Mitchell

March 14, 2003

Urinotherapy

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

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

Michael Newdow

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

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

March 13, 2003

Sex leads to 'love' illness

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Tindzhaka illness from sleeping with unclean widow.

Michael Shermer: Baloney Detection

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

March 11, 2003

Cyber-psychics

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Cyber-psychics do their readings across the miles

Extraterrestrial Culture Day

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

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

March 10, 2003

Direst of Predictions For War in Iraq

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

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

March 9, 2003

Atheism 101

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

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

Supersitions rise in war time

Category: 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

Category: Asian , Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Chinese gourmet cooking

Annual ritual at the Poochiyur temple

Category: Superstitious Folly

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

Mystery girl of Ubin

Category: Superstitious Folly

Pulau Ubin temple the remains of a WWI German girlattracting devotees

Bush "a hired Christian thug."

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

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

Satan's football mascot

Category: Cheap Laughs

Westlake Ohio Satanic demon mascot

March 8, 2003

70% of religious conservatives favor war

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Religious Right Found Likeliest to Favor War

Musicians jailed as Satanists

Category: Superstitious Folly

Casablanca heavy metal musicians jailed for satanism

March 7, 2003

Public prayer fanatics borrow page from enemy's script

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional "one nation under god"

March 6, 2003

Exeter’s UFO kid dead at 55

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Death Seacoast resident Norman Muscarello, 55, his UFO sighting

Betty Hill's Interrupted Journey

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Betty & Barney Hill's UFO abduction, interrupted journey

March 5, 2003

Genie Circumcised Her Infant Son

Category: Superstitious Folly

JAKARTA Indonesia Genie Circumcised Infant

The Spirit Of Diana

Category: Cheap Laughs

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

Give Me that Online Religion

Category: Wishful Thinking

Internet praying: Give Me that Online Religion

March 4, 2003

The great crystal homeopathy hoax

Category: New Age (Old Silliness)

"Weeping" statue of the Virgin Mary at Rockingham

Category: Superstitious Folly

March 2, 2003

Terry Eagleton on fundamentalism

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

68% of US morons believe Satan is real

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Conservative Republican Christians believe in the Devil

The Welsh Fasting Girl

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of the Welsh Fasting Girl

March 1, 2003

Friend fears dead man's faith did him in

Category: Superstitious Folly

School had tried for months to get rid of 'number of beast'

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

KGB Unveils UFO Secrets?

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Russian ufologists in the KGB secret blue files archives

The Planet X 'cover-up'

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Planet X Comet NEAT Biblical Prophecy Apocalypse