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October 31, 2003

James Randi on talking to fools

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Trick, treat and go to Hell

Category: Cheap Laughs

Halloween holiday is satanic and of the devil say silly Christian Fundamentalist preachers and churches

Rescuing Halloween from the born-again

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Saving Halloween from demented, murderous Fundamentalist Christians

Jesus says "Boo!"

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian Fundamentalist superstitions about the Halloween holiday

Misinformation superhighway

Category: Cheap Laughs

Madalyn Murray O'Hair works from her grave, internet spreads silly rumors, mis-information superhighway

Child molester from extragalactic space

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless , Category: Cults

Georgia cult leader claims to be from another galaxy.

October 30, 2003

Blathering majority, silent minority

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Stupid people leave comments on my MoveableType atheist blog, bright people read it but remain silent

Judging Revolve by its cover

Category: Cheap Laughs , Category: Christian Pop Culture

Revolve, the Bible for teenage girls reviewed at Mastication is Normal.

Go to (virtual) Hell!

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian haunted houses, virtual hell, scaremare

October 29, 2003

Richard Dawkins on Intelligent Design

Category: Wishful Thinking

ID theory, Richard Dawkins, Intelligent Design

Superstitious capitalists

Category: Wishful Thinking

Superstitions of stock portfolio managers and bond salesmen

What is really scary about Halloween

Category: Hodgepodge

Christians who hate Halloween.

Fundamentalists and Halloween

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Fundamentalist preachers use Halloween to scare people, Christian pastors who hate the holiday

Wiccans and words

Category: New Age (Old Silliness)

Wiccans claim to be rational while profiting off love potions

Casper says no to Fred Phelps

Category: Homophobia

Casper Wyoming rejects Fred Phelps' Leviticus 18:22 monument attacking Matthew Shephard

October 28, 2003

Intolerance as a civil right

Category: Homophobia

Maranatha Christian Fellowship hates fags and other sinners

Have an unholy Halloween

Category: Hodgepodge

Silly Christian funamenalists think Halloween is about satan and the devil.

Polkville NC's giant junkyard crucifixion

Category: Cheap Laughs

Huge manniquens of Christ crucified in Polkville North Carolina made from junk and scrap

Jesus himself says nothing explicitly about homosexuality

Category: Homophobia

Homophobes use the Christian Bible to justify their homophobia

Don't mean shit

Category: Richard Evans Lee

What is the meaining of life? There isn't any meaning to life. Humanist magazine.

Students allowed to read about masturbation

Category: Miseducation

Johnston County, Des Moines IA students allowed to read about sex in school

Hatemonger carries on

Category: Homophobia

Westboro Baptist Church's Pastor Fred Phelps in Casper Wyoming

Kindergarten crucifix ban

Category: Hodgepodge

Italian court orders crucifixes removed from state kindergarten

October 27, 2003

Death threats from Christian fundamentalists

Category: Homophobia

Gay Bishop Gene Robinson gets death threats from Fundamentalist Christians

Queen and Lady of All Creation

Category: Cults , Category: Superstitious Folly

Virgin Mary cult: Reina y Senora de Todo la Creado in San Isidro de Grecia, Costa Rica

October 26, 2003

Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes

Category: Superstitious Folly

Dawn Perlmutter's book is the first complete resource to assist in crime scene identification, criminal investigation and prosecution of religious terrorism and occult crime

Sometimes her abilities amaze even her, she said

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Silly psychics, self-deluded people, does it run in the family?

Atheism as glorious ignorance

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Belief is being ignorant and denying it; agnosticism is being ignorant and respectfully admitting it; atheism is being ignorant and glorying in it

Heaven and Hell exist (Hell is a place without Wal-Mart)

Category: Wishful Thinking

Moronic Americans expect to spend eternal bliss in heaven

Michael Newdow Interviewed

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Interview with Michael Newdow

UFO Watch

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Website on ufo cranks, flying saucer nuts ET fans.

Wimps who drink blood: wannabe vampires

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Weakling vampire fans who become murderers

October 25, 2003

Jesus Christ hit by lightning

Category: Cheap Laughs , Category: Christian Pop Culture

Jim Caviezel, Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ struck by lightning bolt

October 24, 2003

Swampwater politicians reassure Christian voters

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Tennessee remains home of ignorant Christians, county politicians placate their fears

To hell with therapists, TV - talk to your friends

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Oprah Winfrey and critical-incident stress debriefing therapy bad for mental health?

India's Aghori Sadhus

Category: Superstitious Folly

Aghori Sadhus use tantra to seek siddhi.

October 23, 2003

Haunted houses & the law

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Selling and buying a haunted house, Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court

The danger of religious certainty

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

American Christian fundamentalists are dangerous people

Psychic ship reading

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Silly psychic investigator reads a 15th century ship

October 22, 2003

Most homophobic man in America

Category: Homophobia

The most homophobic man in America, Fred Phelps, in Casper Wyoming

Being gay incompatible with human nature

Category: Homophobia

Cardinal Jozef Glemp embodies Roman Catholic Polish homophobia

Mother Teresa's quickie canonization

Category: Superstitious Folly

Pope John Paul II is in a mad hurry to maker Mother Teresa a saint before he kicks the bucket.

Will we have religious wars?

Category: Religious Intolerance

Will fundamentalist religions cause war?

Nobel Peace Prize insults Islam

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Ilamic theology students at Iran's Qom Shirin Ebadi Nobel Prize insults Islam

Reverend Richard Butler runs for mayor

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Richard Butler, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite, evil Christian, Aryan Nation founder

Government backed witchcraft

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Norway gives witch money, monetary grant for witchcraft business

Only the ungodly go beardless

Category: Superstitious Folly

Shaving a beard is anti-Islamic

Sex & atheism: two weblogs, one goal

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Will my sexuality weblog appeal to readers of my atheist blog?

October 21, 2003

Lines Jesus uses to score with women

Category: Blasphemy is fun , Category: Cheap Laughs

Jesus likes chicks and tries to pickup girls

Sci-fi channel & Kecksburg's flying acorn

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Sci-fi channel hopes for high ratings from Kecksburg PA UFO acorn

Always look on The Bright side of life

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

The Brights Movement semantic crusade needs a theme song, maybe one from Monty Python

October 20, 2003

Asian Spooks Experience

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

$44 tour of cemetary in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. Malaysian ghosts.

Bush's soul trapped in a clay pot and tossed into a river

Category: Cheap Laughs

Farmers in Thailand curse President Bush with black magic chants

Dead French gigolo is a pest

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Oakland poltergeist, Francois won't shut up! Are ghosts profitable?

The Ghosts in room 9

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Bogus spook haunts Buxton Inn's Room 9, brings tourists

Bigfoot: the search for a myth

Category: Wishful Thinking

Gullible search for sasquatch aka bigfoot, an American myth

Lee Simpson's cross walk

Category: Wishful Thinking

Lee Simpson carries a cross on his back as he walks to Florida

October 19, 2003

Satan, Amway, Proctor and Gamble

Category: Cheap Laughs

Proctor & Gamble vs Amway and accusation of Satanism

The vampire & the vicar

Category: Wishful Thinking

Young fool thinks he's a vampire

God has a very grim sense of humor

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Religious Fundamentalism will affect the coming decades, Fundamentalists in America and the Third World. An interview with Philip Jenkins.

Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola

Category: Homophobia

Nigerian homophobic Archbishop Akinola using homophobia to split the Anglican Communion, Episcopal Church

Mother Teresa's dubious miracle

Category: Catholic , Category: Wishful Thinking

Saint Mother Teresa's miracle healing doubtful

Three wives required for heaven

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Crazy polygamous Mormon cult prophet says a man needs at least three wives

October 18, 2003

Survey believers don't think faith causes violence

Category: Wishful Thinking

Survey shows that religious people don't think faith causes violence, a clear case of wishful thinking.

I knew my God was bigger than his

Category: Religious Intolerance

Lt. Gen. William G. Jerry Boykin, right wing Christian fundamentalist

October 17, 2003

Praying for Marilyn Manson

Category: Cheap Laughs

Mexican Fundamentalist Christians waste their time praying for Marilyn Manson

October 16, 2003

Postmodernism & science

Category: Wishful Thinking

Perspectivism or situatedness or social constructionism by Ophelia Benson in Butterflies and Wheels

No more cultural studies, parapsychology

Category: Miseducation

Silly degrees in cultural studies and aromatherapy

Homo stickers, churches, Laramie

Category: Homophobia

Homophobia and homophobic people in America

Duke MANTRA study: prayer doesn't cure

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

DUMC MANTRA study of the effect on prayer and healing, health

Digital driver's licence photos are of the Devil

Category: Cheap Laughs

Digital driver's licence photos, biometrics are Satan's science, the Devil's work

October 15, 2003

Meta-comment

Category: Richard Evans Lee

An atheist blog finds Christian readers, foolish people look for fellatio miracle cure

Psychics offensive to God

Category: Religious Intolerance

Catholic Church condemns psychics, intolerant of psychic readings.

Is there any scientific basis for mind-reading?

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Mind readers use verbal cues, cold readings.

Conversations with the dead

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Psychic fraud is an easy way to make money

Scottish Cardinal soft on clerical celibacy

Category: Catholic , Category: Hodgepodge

Married priests a possibility says Most Rev Keith O'Brien

We ate everything but his boots

Category: Hodgepodge

Cannibals did eat one Christian missionary

October 14, 2003

Science isn't supernatural

Category: Miseducation

Miseducation in Washakie Wyoming: hiding creation science as intelligent design

Fundamentalist Republicans in Washington State

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Conservative Christian Fundamentalists in Washington's Republican Party

Evangelicals refuse children anti-viral drugs

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Evangelical health workers in the third world refuse children with AIDS AZT

Satanic Panics

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Occult crimes, mass hysteria and Satanic panic attacks

October 12, 2003

West African penis snatchers

Category: Superstitious Folly

West African superstition of sorcerers who can steal a man's penis

Humanistic Judaism

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Jews who don't believe in God, Chicago's Beth Or temple.

October 11, 2003

Tammy Faye on gay marriage

Category: Homophobia

Tammy Faye Messner says no to gay marriages.

Myth 1: Evangelicals all vote Republican

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Freestyle evangelical Christians, many of them voted for Al Gore in 2000.

Raelian baptism

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Brigitte Mccann is baptized by Rael himself.

Raelian press release on Brigitte Mccann's reports

Category: Cults , Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Brigitte Mccann, Sun Media expose of Rael and the Raelian cult.

October 10, 2003

Money Is Love

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Rael exploits Raelians for money

Sun series riles Raelians

Category: Cults , Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Brigitte McCann's reports in the Sun Raelian cult.

Christian monuments in Casper, Wyoming

Category: Homophobia

Casper, Wyoming: 10 commandments statue, Fred Phelps homophobic monument.

October 9, 2003

Christian homophobia

Category: Homophobia

Republicans plan to manipulate Christian homophobia, right-wing homophobes

Veronica Lueken's apocalyptic prophecies

Category: Superstitious Folly

Cults battle to control Veronica Lueken's shrine and prophetic legacy.

Vatican lies about condoms

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless , Category: Catholic

Roman Catholic Church denies that condoms prevent spread of HIV, AIDS

Cursed money cure

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Psychic offers to clean cursed cash

God had been getting at him

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Allan Menzies’ obsession with the occult, ritualistic killing of Thomas McKendrick

Jesus Land

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

October 8, 2003

UnGodly Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

UnGodly: The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair by Ted Dracos

Disturbed by religion indeed

Category: Hodgepodge

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, GA.

Superstition as a weapon

Category: Hodgepodge

American government used superstition in military operations.

Politics and the Brights Movement

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Will the Brights Movement emerge as an important political constituency?

Jesus Sound Explosion

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Mark Curtis Anderson's memoir: Jesus Sound Explosion

Brights Movement's beginnings

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Early days of the Brights Movement.

Rael's genius

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Claude Vorilhon, Rael, Clonaid, publicity stunt

October 7, 2003

Blogging for The Brights

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Brights Movement citations on Popdex. Brights-Net logo.

Atheist Bloggers

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Atheist weblogs, skeptic blogs, blogging and atheism.

SciFi Channel caught in ufo hoax

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Barbara Sicuranza in SciFi Channel UFO hoax video.

Become an online minister today!

Category: Hodgepodge

How to become an online minister, preacher, reverend

The Abraham Project: kill Rael

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Vorilhon claims the secret service of France and America's CIA have been trying to kill him

October 6, 2003

Mrs. Noah's name was Joan

Category: Cheap Laughs

Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Penis Church

Category: Cheap Laughs

Church looks like penis, is a phallic symbol.

Bible Belt logic

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Ten Commandments protest in Washington, DC.

October 5, 2003

Fred Phelps' Leviticus 18:22 monument

Category: Homophobia

Fred Phelphs plans Leviticus 18:22 homophobic monument to Matthew Shepard

Will there be pets in heaven?

Category: Wishful Thinking

A Travel Guide to Heaven Anthony DeStefano

Americans want signs of faith: if it's their own

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian Fundamentalists in courts around America

October 4, 2003

Christian version of the Taliban

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

John Stoos' writings outline his vision of an anti-abortion city council and other such action by government.

Hooray for Norway

Category: Hodgepodge

Norwegians least religious Europeans

You are above the law!

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christian fundamentalist jury nullification.

October 2, 2003

Feel the fires of Hell

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Christian mother burns daughters hand