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January 30, 2004

Georgia pretends science doesn't exist

Miseducation

State of Georgia wants to take a stand against science, biology and evolutionary theory

January 29, 2004

Quack doctors in Hell

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Medical quacks, bad doctors punished

Freethought Society loses

Skeptics & Atheists

Chester County courthouse. plaque of the Ten Commandments lawsuit

Sexist buddhists

Asian , • Hodgepodge

Sexism and buddhism

January 28, 2004

The Wedge document

Miseducation

Intelligent Design movement covert attempt to subvert science and establish theocracy

January 27, 2004

God in a leek

Wishful Thinking

Young man finds holy name in vegetable

Ayurvedic buncombe

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Gullible Americans take up Ayurvedic medicine

Handology

Cheap Laughs

Study of character traits from photographs or study of hands

January 26, 2004

Bishop of Rome enjoys breakdancing

Catholic , • Cheap Laughs

Homophobic Paul John Paul II's mind grows dim

Discrimination against the nonreligious

Wearisome Bedfellows

The always interesting Cathy Young writes about the new discrimination against the nonreligious

January 25, 2004

Republicans will win because Americans are backward

Wearisome Bedfellows

The Republican party appeals to American ignorance, the Democrats are too humane and sane

Christians pester adult store visitors

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Texas Christians act as the Morality Police

January 24, 2004

'Light' female genital mutilation

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Infibulation, the mutilation of the genitalia of young girls in Italy

There's a Gumbylike quality to Jesus in the United States

Hodgepodge

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon by Stephen Prothero

January 23, 2004

Missouri politicians against science

Miseducation

Missouri legislators against science for intelligent design theory

January 22, 2004

Antichrist: vegetarian pacifist

Superstitious Folly

Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Gustaaf Joos antichrist is philanthrophist, most gays are really perverts

Graveyard of the Gods

Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Publish discussion forums for atheists, skeptics and free thinkers

Utah atheists vs. public prayer

Skeptics & Atheists

Utah Atheists seek to make prayer equal or to eliminate political prayers

Where would atheists go?

Religious Intolerance

Iraqi Directive 137 gives power over marriage to religious leaders

North Carolina's fundamentalist politicians

Christian Fundamentalism

North Carolina Christian Fundamentalist politicians hate atheists and diversity

January 21, 2004

Sigmund Freud vs. C.S. Lewis in a Texas death-match

Wishful Thinking

Silly book mixes C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on PBS: The Question of God

Biblical Intolerance

Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Bible study and criticism website

UFO real estate deal

UFOs & Bogus Science

Man tries to selll one-square-inch plots of land in Iowa which he claimed UFOs had flown over

Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact With Government Leaders

UFOs & Bogus Science

The Conspiracy Behind Conspiracy Theories: Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact With Government Leaders?

Amazon Shop

Atheist books list

January 20, 2004

God & the European Union

Hodgepodge

Will the European Union constitution contain reference to some silly god

Those amazing miracle supplements

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Dietary supplements that claim to give you muscles, shed fat, bogus aphrodisiacs

Chinese reverting to superstition?

Asian , • Wishful Thinking

Chinese superstitions

Martyrs atone for adultery

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Palestinian women become suicide bombers to atone for sin

January 19, 2004

Kucinich moves yogic flyers

Wishful Thinking

Home of Maharishi University of Management and a center of the Global Country of World Peace

Certified clairvoyants

Wishful Thinking

Learn psychic superpowers, amaze your friends, be the life of the party

January 18, 2004

That ol' devil Satan

Christian Fundamentalism

Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture

Carl Jung thought flying saucers were real

UFOs & Bogus Science

Psychologist Carl Jung believed that UFOs, flying saucers were actual and factual

Oriental elixirs

Asian , • Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Oriental potions, lotions, TCM

Federally funded charity for Christians only

Wearisome Bedfellows

Statement of faith required before help

If you don't believe in God you're evil

Skeptics & Atheists

January 17, 2004

Jesus' SMS account closed

Cheap Laughs

Text messaged from Jesus service shut down

January 16, 2004

Southern Baptists most superstitious

Christian Fundamentalism

Many American pastors aren't nutty fundamentalist conservatives

Simple explanations for simple minds

Hodgepodge

Laws of physics too subtle for intelligent design movement

Deceptive drug trials

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies, loaded to generate the results they need

Raelians = Christians = Nuts

Cults , • Skeptics & Atheists

Christians are as silly, foolish as Raelians

January 15, 2004

Buddhists against the pledge

Asian , • Hodgepodge

Buddhists do not believe in a creator god and oppose the Pledge of Allegiance

Fear of naughty words

Wearisome Bedfellows

HR3687 to curb language used on public airwaves

How to beat your wife

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Spain punishes author of book on wife beating

Corporate sponsorship sought for Bigfoot hunt

Wishful Thinking

Man asks for companies to bankroll his search for Bigfoot

January 14, 2004

God's diet miracle

Cheap Laughs

Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin

Don't let public school become Bible school

Miseducation

Keep the Bible out of the classroom

January 13, 2004

King James Bible Textbook Initiative

Wearisome Bedfellows

AMERICAN ATHEISTS BLASTS PROPOSED KING JAMES BIBLE TEXTBOOK INITIATIVE

January 12, 2004

Fundagelical

Richard Evans Lee

Fundagelical evangelical christianity combined with fundamentalist christians

Salvation inflation

Hodgepodge

Silliness of American Christianity

January 11, 2004

Canadian seminary would rather not have queers

Homophobia

Hompophobic testing at Canadian seminary

American Jesus

Hodgepodge

Popular Christology studied in American Jesus by Stephen Prothero

January 10, 2004

10 Commandments graveyard

Christian Fundamentalism

Ten Commandments monument gone, well, good riddance to bad rubbish

No communion for right-to-life supporters

Religious Intolerance

Diocese of La Crosse, Bishop Raymond Burke mixes church with state