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January 30, 2004

Georgia pretends science doesn't exist

Category: Miseducation

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

January 29, 2004

Quack doctors in Hell

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Medical quacks, bad doctors punished

Freethought Society loses

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Chester County courthouse. plaque of the Ten Commandments lawsuit

Sexist buddhists

Category: Asian , Category: Hodgepodge

Sexism and buddhism

January 28, 2004

The Wedge document

Category: Miseducation

Intelligent Design movement covert attempt to subvert science and establish theocracy

January 27, 2004

God in a leek

Category: Wishful Thinking

Young man finds holy name in vegetable

Ayurvedic buncombe

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Gullible Americans take up Ayurvedic medicine

Handology

Category: Cheap Laughs

Study of character traits from photographs or study of hands

January 26, 2004

Bishop of Rome enjoys breakdancing

Category: Catholic , Category: Cheap Laughs

Homophobic Paul John Paul II's mind grows dim

Discrimination against the nonreligious

Category: 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

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

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

Christians pester adult store visitors

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Texas Christians act as the Morality Police

January 24, 2004

'Light' female genital mutilation

Category: 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

Category: Hodgepodge

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

January 23, 2004

Missouri politicians against science

Category: Miseducation

Missouri legislators against science for intelligent design theory

January 22, 2004

Antichrist: vegetarian pacifist

Category: Superstitious Folly

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

Graveyard of the Gods

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Publish discussion forums for atheists, skeptics and free thinkers

Utah atheists vs. public prayer

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

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

Where would atheists go?

Category: Religious Intolerance

Iraqi Directive 137 gives power over marriage to religious leaders

North Carolina's fundamentalist politicians

Category: 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

Category: Wishful Thinking

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

Biblical Intolerance

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Bible study and criticism website

UFO real estate deal

Category: 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

Category: 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

Category: Hodgepodge

Will the European Union constitution contain reference to some silly god

Those amazing miracle supplements

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

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

Chinese reverting to superstition?

Category: Asian , Category: Wishful Thinking

Chinese superstitions

Martyrs atone for adultery

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Palestinian women become suicide bombers to atone for sin

January 19, 2004

Kucinich moves yogic flyers

Category: Wishful Thinking

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

Certified clairvoyants

Category: Wishful Thinking

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

January 18, 2004

That ol' devil Satan

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture

Carl Jung thought flying saucers were real

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

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

Oriental elixirs

Category: Asian , Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Oriental potions, lotions, TCM

Federally funded charity for Christians only

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Statement of faith required before help

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

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

January 17, 2004

Jesus' SMS account closed

Category: Cheap Laughs

Text messaged from Jesus service shut down

January 16, 2004

Southern Baptists most superstitious

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Many American pastors aren't nutty fundamentalist conservatives

Simple explanations for simple minds

Category: Hodgepodge

Laws of physics too subtle for intelligent design movement

Deceptive drug trials

Category: Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

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

Raelians = Christians = Nuts

Category: Cults , Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Christians are as silly, foolish as Raelians

January 15, 2004

Buddhists against the pledge

Category: Asian , Category: Hodgepodge

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

Fear of naughty words

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

HR3687 to curb language used on public airwaves

How to beat your wife

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Spain punishes author of book on wife beating

Corporate sponsorship sought for Bigfoot hunt

Category: Wishful Thinking

Man asks for companies to bankroll his search for Bigfoot

January 14, 2004

God's diet miracle

Category: Cheap Laughs

Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin

Don't let public school become Bible school

Category: Miseducation

Keep the Bible out of the classroom

January 13, 2004

King James Bible Textbook Initiative

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

AMERICAN ATHEISTS BLASTS PROPOSED KING JAMES BIBLE TEXTBOOK INITIATIVE

January 12, 2004

Fundagelical

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Fundagelical evangelical christianity combined with fundamentalist christians

Salvation inflation

Category: Hodgepodge

Silliness of American Christianity

January 11, 2004

Canadian seminary would rather not have queers

Category: Homophobia

Hompophobic testing at Canadian seminary

American Jesus

Category: Hodgepodge

Popular Christology studied in American Jesus by Stephen Prothero

January 10, 2004

10 Commandments graveyard

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

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

No communion for right-to-life supporters

Category: Religious Intolerance

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

Secularism is a dirty word

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

America is a secular country

January 8, 2004

Cable TV made his wife fat

Category: Cheap Laughs

Man blames cable television for his wretched life

Christian geology

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Creationism versus science is a big issue

January 6, 2004

Christian nudist church

Category: Cheap Laughs

Christian nudism, shake your penis for Jesus

Football as sinful as lust!

Category: Cheap Laughs

Competitive team sports are sinful

Placating diehard opponents of female consecration

Category: Religious Intolerance

Church of England and women priests

God: what a SOB

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

God is a terrorist, look how he treated Adam and Eve

January 5, 2004

Voodoo dust in the Magic City

Category: Superstitious Folly

Miami lawyer claims his trial influenced by voodoo dust from Santeria cult

January 4, 2004

Reason vs. religion

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Science doesn't need the trash of relious faith

Outside, Looking In

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Gil Gaudia, atheist, author of Outside, Looking In

When the promise of eternal bliss isn't enough

Category: Hodgepodge

Church desperate for attendees, members

January 2, 2004

Hackers from outer space ate my brain

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Silly fears of alient computer viruses, trojans

January 1, 2004

Hell: what a silly idea

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Hell is an utterly preposterous, foolish idea, notion

The Church of Tom Jones

Category: Cheap Laughs

Jack Stahl and the Church of Tom Jones