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April 30, 2004

Vatican exorcsit #1

Catholic , • Superstitious Folly

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

Shadowmancer: Christian Harry Potter

Christian Pop Culture

Alternative book series for Christian children

April 29, 2004

The Church of Craft

Hodgepodge

A church based on knitting and handicrafts

April 28, 2004

Not Da Vinci's but Satan's code

Christian Pop Culture , • The Da Vinci Code

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

April 27, 2004

Hotties from the grave

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Make love to dead people, sexuality of ghosts

April 26, 2004

Robert Bork on gay marriage

Homophobia

Robert Bork condemns court for accepting same-sex marraiges

American freethinkers

Skeptics & Atheists

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

April 25, 2004

Jesus loves doughnuts?

Cheap Laughs

Christian doughnut chain Bess Eaton declares bankruptcy

April 24, 2004

Alabama: atheists are (will be) all wet

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

Catholic

Roman Catholic Church considers forbidding pro-abortion politicians communion

April 23, 2004

Lord George Carey needs a kick & a slap

Homophobia

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

Penn Jillette on faith

Skeptics & Atheists

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

April 22, 2004

Utah is absurd

Hodgepodge

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

Circumcision: the naked truth!

Cheap Laughs , • 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

Homophobia

Homophobic protest before Oregon's state Supreme Court

Church as dominatrix

Hodgepodge

The Roman Catholic Church is the celibate priest's dominatrix

April 19, 2004

Supreme Court says Baptists cops must enforce laws

Cheap Laughs

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

The price of gullibility

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

Absurd Inurbane Witless

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

April 18, 2004

Ghosts in the toilet

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Maylasian faith-healer rids toilets of ghosts

Claims creationism musuem is a church

Christian Fundamentalism

Creationism theme park owner in trouble for tax fraud

African bishops call on Americans to repent

Homophobia

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

April 17, 2004

Ruth Norman of Unarius

UFOs & Bogus Science

Laughable space priestess Ruth E. Norman of Unarius

Santería

Superstitious Folly

Cuban Santería in Miami Florida

April 15, 2004

Catholic priest says don't be like JFK

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

Homophobia

Religious conservatives protest gay marriages in San Francisco

A daily review of religion and the press

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

Skeptics & Atheists

30th annual national convention of the American Atheists

April 14, 2004

90 million fundagelicals

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

Blasphemy is fun

Virtual online cartoon church services

April 13, 2004

The Passion of St. Easter Bunny

Christian Pop Culture

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

Me 'n' Jesus

Skeptics & Atheists

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

Shroud of Turin: the shocking truth

Blasphemy is fun

Silliness and nonsense making fun of the Shroud of Turin

John Kerry vs. American Catholic Bishops

Absurd Inurbane Witless , • Catholic

John Kerry's struggle with conservative Roman Catholic bishops

Baptist vs. Baptist

Religious Intolerance

Intolerant Southern Baptist Convention directors attack kindly Baptist World Alliance policies

Mother of God a big crybaby

Superstitious Folly

Bogus weeping Virgin Mary in Australia

April 11, 2004

Christian is the new gay

Christian Pop Culture

Sad success of Christian movies and book publishing

Cracks in the Easter egg

Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

Christian myths about Easter exposed in the Easter quiz

The Good News is massively outweighed by the bad

Skeptics & Atheists

Iain Macwhirter reads the Bible

Most Washingtonians still praying

Hodgepodge

Religious faith still alive in Washington State

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism

Skeptics & Atheists

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby

Politics & the godliness gap

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

Cheap Laughs

Pop singer Madonna has concert on Sunday upsetting priests

April 10, 2004

South Park vs. Mel Gibson's Passion

Skeptics & Atheists

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

April 9, 2004

New passion for witness cards

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

Hodgepodge

Easter Bunny and marshmellow candy chicks aren't Christian

DVD player for Christians

Christian Pop Culture

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

St. Mel boosts bible reading

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

Christian Fundamentalism

Christians mistake religious faith for goodness

Evolutionary theory & history site angers creationists

Skeptic & Atheist Websites, Weblogs

University of California Museum of Paleontology website upsets creationists

Hardcore Skeptic

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

Christian Pop Culture

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

The Passion & anti-Semitism

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?

Richard Evans Lee

Tired and bored with American Christian Fundamentalism and Liberals

Americans hate atheists

Richard Evans Lee

Americans won't vote for atheists

Bible study ends in beating

Christian Fundamentalism

Littleton NH man kicked and beaten after Bible study discussion

The Darwinian adaptability of American religions

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

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

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