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April 30, 2004

Vatican exorcsit #1

Category: Catholic , Category: Superstitious Folly

Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week

Shadowmancer: Christian Harry Potter

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Alternative book series for Christian children

April 29, 2004

The Church of Craft

Category: Hodgepodge

A church based on knitting and handicrafts

April 28, 2004

Not Da Vinci's but Satan's code

Category: Christian Pop Culture , Category: The Da Vinci Code

Christian fundamentalists angry about the Da Vinci Code, call it a deceptive plot

April 27, 2004

Hotties from the grave

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Make love to dead people, sexuality of ghosts

April 26, 2004

Robert Bork on gay marriage

Category: Homophobia

Robert Bork condemns court for accepting same-sex marraiges

American freethinkers

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

April 25, 2004

Jesus loves doughnuts?

Category: Cheap Laughs

Christian doughnut chain Bess Eaton declares bankruptcy

April 24, 2004

Alabama: atheists are (will be) all wet

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Alabama politicians oppose atheist gathering, meeting

Pope John Paul II indicated that Sen John Kerry and other Catholic politicians should be refused Communion

Category: Catholic

Roman Catholic Church considers forbidding pro-abortion politicians communion

April 23, 2004

Lord George Carey needs a kick & a slap

Category: Homophobia

Ex-Archbishop complains Anglican and Episcopal churches are becoming too inclusive

Penn Jillette on faith

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Penn Jillette talks about his and Teller's TV program Bullshit!, which exposes charlatans and quacks

April 22, 2004

Utah is absurd

Category: Hodgepodge

Many sane people will not work or do business in Utah, an overly pious and very homophobic state

Circumcision: the naked truth!

Category: Cheap Laughs , Category: Homophobia

A funny email comparing the fight to protect circumcision from pollution as a parody of the silly Christian attach on same-sex marriages

April 20, 2004

Oregon extraordinarily God-forsaken

Category: Homophobia

Homophobic protest before Oregon's state Supreme Court

Church as dominatrix

Category: Hodgepodge

The Roman Catholic Church is the celibate priest's dominatrix

April 19, 2004

Supreme Court says Baptists cops must enforce laws

Category: Cheap Laughs

Christian and Baptist police officers must help enforce laws, Supreme Court ruling.

The price of gullibility

Category: Richard Evans Lee

The cost and expense of gullibility, though some people find it profitable (or hope they will).

Vote wrong and go to Hell

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Greek Bishop warns against voting for United Nations plan for reuniting Cyprus

April 18, 2004

Ghosts in the toilet

Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Maylasian faith-healer rids toilets of ghosts

Claims creationism musuem is a church

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Creationism theme park owner in trouble for tax fraud

African bishops call on Americans to repent

Category: Homophobia

African bishops call American Episcopanians Satanic for gay bishop, demand they repent

April 17, 2004

Ruth Norman of Unarius

Category: UFOs & Bogus Science

Laughable space priestess Ruth E. Norman of Unarius

Santería

Category: Superstitious Folly

Cuban Santería in Miami Florida

April 15, 2004

Catholic priest says don't be like JFK

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless

Colorado Roman Catholic warns politicians to not be like John F. Kennedy

Fundagelicals invade SF to warn of same-sex marriage damnation

Category: Homophobia

Religious conservatives protest gay marriages in San Francisco

A daily review of religion and the press

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

The Revealer is a publication of the New York University Department of Journalism and New York University's Center for Religion and Media

One Convention So Over God

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

30th annual national convention of the American Atheists

April 14, 2004

90 million fundagelicals

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Queer beliefs of fundamentalist, evangelical, charismatic American Christians who feel sorry for themselves Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research poll of fundagelicals

3-D virtual church

Category: Blasphemy is fun

Virtual online cartoon church services

April 13, 2004

The Passion of St. Easter Bunny

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Christians whip Easter Bunny in emulation of Mel Gibson's movie about Christ

Me 'n' Jesus

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Fool enought to get saved, smart enough to become an atheist

Shroud of Turin: the shocking truth

Category: Blasphemy is fun

Silliness and nonsense making fun of the Shroud of Turin

John Kerry vs. American Catholic Bishops

Category: Absurd Inurbane Witless , Category: Catholic

John Kerry's struggle with conservative Roman Catholic bishops

Baptist vs. Baptist

Category: Religious Intolerance

Intolerant Southern Baptist Convention directors attack kindly Baptist World Alliance policies

Mother of God a big crybaby

Category: Superstitious Folly

Bogus weeping Virgin Mary in Australia

April 11, 2004

Christian is the new gay

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Sad success of Christian movies and book publishing

Cracks in the Easter egg

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Christian myths about Easter exposed in the Easter quiz

The Good News is massively outweighed by the bad

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Iain Macwhirter reads the Bible

Most Washingtonians still praying

Category: Hodgepodge

Religious faith still alive in Washington State

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby

Politics & the godliness gap

Category: Wearisome Bedfellows

Political statement by attending religious services or celebrating Passover or Easter - or by ignoring the religious holidays.

Madonna doesn't honor Lord's Day

Category: Cheap Laughs

Pop singer Madonna has concert on Sunday upsetting priests

April 10, 2004

South Park vs. Mel Gibson's Passion

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

South Park on Comedy Central mocks Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

April 9, 2004

New passion for witness cards

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ causes more Christians to buy witness cards

April 8, 2004

Easter Bunny is pagan

Category: Hodgepodge

Easter Bunny and marshmellow candy chicks aren't Christian

DVD player for Christians

Category: Christian Pop Culture

ClearPlay technology to automatically skip DVD content to be sold by Wal-Mart

St. Mel boosts bible reading

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Evangelicals claim they are reading their Bibles more often after watching The Passion of the Christ

April 7, 2004

Faith doesn't make you good

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Christians mistake religious faith for goodness

Evolutionary theory & history site angers creationists

Category: Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

University of California Museum of Paleontology website upsets creationists

Hardcore Skeptic

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Playing with Beliefnet's silly online quizzes and tests about spirituality and religious beliefs

April 6, 2004

Isaiah 53:5 - Passion pays

Category: Christian Pop Culture

Items inspired by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ prove profitable for Christian merchants

The Passion & anti-Semitism

Category: Religious Intolerance

Survey examines the effect of The Passion of the Christ on American anti-semitism

April 5, 2004

American Protestant Christians: don't you wish they all just go away?

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Tired and bored with American Christian Fundamentalism and Liberals

Americans hate atheists

Category: Richard Evans Lee

Americans won't vote for atheists

Bible study ends in beating

Category: Christian Fundamentalism

Littleton NH man kicked and beaten after Bible study discussion

The Darwinian adaptability of American religions

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture reviewed by Michael Shermer

April 4, 2004

Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds , Category: Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Review of Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg

Goodbye Bigfoot, we never knew you

Category: Psychics & Other Frauds

Greg Long's The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story puts the myth in the grave

Utah street preacher Lonnie Pursifull

Category: Religious Intolerance

Lonnie Pursifull. Pursifull, a Baptist preacher and member of Pennsylvania-based World Wide Street Preachers' Fellowship

April 3, 2004

She knows the truth but won't share it

Category: Richard Evans Lee , Category: The Da Vinci Code

Odd claim by woman that the Bible is based on manuscripts written within 20 years of Christ's death. Probably read the Da Vinci Code

Siberians say wrath of Princess of Altai causing tremors

Category: Superstitious Folly

Siberian shaman's blame tremors on mummy's curse

Paranormal Rights

Category: Mental, Social Pseudoscience

Crank psychologist calls for Paranormal Rights for people who've had unlikely experiences

April 2, 2004

Bible more accurate than Homer

Category: Christian Fundamentalism , Category: Homophobia , Category: Richard Evans Lee

Strange Christian Fundamentalist remarks comparing the Bible with Homer's epic poetry

Atheist school student punished

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Washington school student punished for taking under god out of the pledge of allegiance

April 1, 2004

Jerry Falwell and the dildo

Category: Hodgepodge

Christians beware evil site called Jesus Loves Porn. You will do to Hell if you visit it like Dr. Falwell

Dr. Gene Scott redux

Category: Cults , Category: Hodgepodge

Imagine you have a crazy roommate who is addicted to watching Doctor Gene Scott on satellite TV

And God looked and it was silly

Category: Richard Evans Lee , Category: The Da Vinci Code

On the first April Fool's Day God laughed at what he had created

Bullshit Season 2: Penn & Teller take on the Bible

Category: Skeptics & Atheists

Christian Bible is subject of Penn and Teller's Bullshit TV show season two