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April 30, 2003

Claims animals know how to do yoga

Category: Wishful Thinking

Pet yoga in New York

April 28, 2003

Pseudoscience and health promotion

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Pseudoscience and prevention therapy & therapists.

Jesus loves NASCAR

Category: Cheap Laughs

Motor Racing Outreach silly Christian ministry.

April 27, 2003

Dale Drews

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Dale Drews humanist life after death.

To believe in Christ is to believe in a rabbit’s foot

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Ed Weathers Memphis atheist.

Our Lady of Emmitsburg

Category: Wishful Thinking

Gianna Talone-Sullivan Our Lady of Emmitsburg

April 26, 2003

Miracle TV Show

Category: Wishful Thinking

Archbishop Sheen He was a pioneer in Christian television broadcasting in the 1950s. Admirers are seeking testimonials that will prove a miracle.

April 24, 2003

Psychics bilk and defraud

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Psychic fraud: bilk, cheat money out of stupid, silly, naive people.

Harry Potter whips Christians

Category: Miseducation

Stupid Christians accuse Harry Potter of witchcraft.

April 23, 2003

Demise of the faith-based legislation

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

demise of Bush's faith-based legislation

April 22, 2003

Bible brigade is bound for Baghdad

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian Evangelists head for Iraq. Ancient Christian communities in the Middle East.

UFO hunter

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

UFO hunting

April 21, 2003

Worshipalooza?

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Baptized youth don't go to church.

April 20, 2003

Further Irony

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian Apocalyptic Readings Of Edward Gibbon's Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

Feeling sorry for God

Category: Hodgepodge

Feeling sorry for God

Pope Victor, Constantine: Excommunication, Antisemitism

Category: Religious Intolerance

Pope Victor, Emperor Constatine Easter, Jewish, Jew, anti-semitism, excommunication.

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Category: Miseducation

New Jersey, Pennsylvania no child left behind constitutionaly protected prayer.

April 19, 2003

Tom Daschle can't call himself a Catholic

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Tom Daschle can't call himself a Catholic

The Resurrection of the Son of God

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Book Defends Gospel Account of Resurrection Story

Jesus was a meat eater

Category: Cheap Laughs

Jesus PETA billboard meat eater.

April 18, 2003

Religions and the meeting of civilization

Category: Religious Intolerance

I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell: Religions and the meeting of civilization

Hindu groups accuse Christian missionaries

Category: Religious Intolerance

Hindus accuse Christian missionaries of bribery.

"Dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine"

Category: Catholic , Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Pope John Paul II divorced to not remarry, not take communion in non-Roman Catholic churches

April 16, 2003

Herbal Sars cures in China

Category: Asian , Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Chinese seek to cure Sars with turnips, ginger, silkworms, soup, cicada tea.

SC Senator Mike Fair: Darwin "foolish"

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

SC Senator Mike Fair irritated with evolution, Darwin.

April 15, 2003

Greedy Dr. Gene Scott

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Dr. Gene Scott, money, California State Attorney General, television station

Child Evangelism Fellowship

Category: Miseducation

Religious Group's Access to Schools Limited Child Evangelism Fellowship

Anti-vaccination foolishness

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Anti-vaccine lobby, anti-vaccination and God.

Waiting for Koresh's resurrection

Category: Superstitious Folly

David Koresh to rise from the dead in Waco

Education Secretary Rod Paige

Category: Miseducation

Education Secretary Rod Paige schools and christian values.

Europeans: Keep God out of war

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Bush Christian fundamentalism

April 14, 2003

The Jim Bakker Show

Category: Cheap Laughs

Jim Bakker Show in Branson Missouri

Atheist Can Pray at City Meeting

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Atheist can pray at Salt Lake City council meetings.

Venice Florida Atheist

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Atheist in Venice Florida Charles Cheves

Creationist free-speech case

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

creationist free-speech case errors in the high school biology text

April 13, 2003

The Miracles of Exodus

Category: Hodgepodge

Scientist Defends Book The Miracles of Exodus

No bath without baptism

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Army Chaplain coerces baptism for bath.

Franklin Graham

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Why we should keep Franklin Graham out of Iraq

April 11, 2003

Ten Commandments Project flopped

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

$10 to recent the 10 Commandments

Bush administration vs. science

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Creationists, pro-lifers and conservatives now pose a serious threat to research and science teaching in the US

April 10, 2003

Battleground God

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

The Philosophers' Magazine Battleground God rational consistency

The Whole Silly Flood Thing

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Debunking silly creationist psuedoscience and The Flood..

April 8, 2003

Evil giant spider E.T.s help to hide Hussein

Category: Cheap Laughs

Evil giant spider e.t.'s helping saddam hussein.

James Randi vs. homeopathy

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

James Randi's million dollar challenge to homeopathy on BBC horizon program.

April 7, 2003

Indian Reproductive Folklore

Category: Superstitious Folly

VADGAON KURD, WARDHA supertitious folklore pregnancy.

Women may not pray aloud at the Western Wall

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Women may not pray aloud at the Western Wall

Paramount vs. National Academy of Sciences

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

National Academy of Sciences, Paramount, J. Marvin Herndon & bogus science.

April 6, 2003

Highway 666

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

New Mexico: Could U.S. 666 Be a Highway to Hell

Cat causes UFO sighting

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Lardal Norway, UFO was a cat

A.N. Wilson's God's Funeral

Category: Superstitious Folly

Richard Lee on A.N. Wilson's God's Funeral

Ten Commandments in Chester County

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Ten Commandments on the Chester County courthouse

TN County uncomfortable with evolution

Category: Miseducation

Miseducation: Blount TN favors creationism over evolution.

April 2, 2003

Vatican as homophobic as ever

Category: Homophobia

Lexicon on Ambiguous and Colloquial Terms about Family Life and Ethical Questions homophobic Catholic reference book.

Encyclopedia of Stupidity

Category: Hodgepodge

The Encyclopedia of Stupidity, by Matthijs van Boxsel, trans. Arnold & Erica Pomerans