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May 31, 2004

Pope worries about US, elevates Law

Catholic

Pope calls Americans materialistic, protects Cardinal Bernard Law from justice.

Doesn't it seem like the world is getting dumber with every passing year? Well, maybe it is!

Hodgepodge

Average IQ level will diminish during the 21st century

May 30, 2004

Bishop Ross Davies: sexist pig

Catholic

Australian female bishops worse than homosexuals says Bishop

Daniel Wirth: prayer is worthless

Christian Pop Culture

Daniel Wirth pleaded guilty to multi-million-dollar IVF fraud charges.

Anne Catherine Emmerich

Christian Pop Culture

Emmerich portrays the Jews as cruel Christ-killers

Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Christian fundamentalist teachings, strict discipline and corporal punishment

May 28, 2004

Who's driving the anti-Enlightenment?

Skeptics & Atheists

Wheen writes of an incongruous coalition of postmodernists and primitivists, New Age and Old Testament

May 27, 2004

Christian ministers turn to cyber dating

Hodgepodge

Divinity schools are often likened to marriage factories

16 reasons for foolish faith

Wishful Thinking

People are not drawn to religion just because of a fear of death or any other single reason, according to a new comprehensive, psychological theory of religion

May 25, 2004

Political support of same-sex marriage is evil

Catholic , • Homophobia

Roman Catholic moral theology is often homophobic

May 24, 2004

Tim LaHaye puts Christian bookshops out of business

Christian Pop Culture

Christian bestsellers like Left Behind series cause fundamentalist book stores to fail and close their doors.

Baptist pastors finance gay cruising

Homophobia

Retirement fund for Baptist preachers helps finance Carnival Cruise Lines Gay Days cruises.

May 23, 2004

Unitarian Universalists don't love god

Religious Intolerance

State of Texas persecutes Unitarian Universalists and demands they pay taxes.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair strikes from beyond the grave!

Cheap Laughs

Let Madalyn Murray O'Hair rest in peace instead of keeping her so busy.

Generation Cross

Christian Pop Culture

Lino Rulli's Generation Cross on Metro Cable Channel 6 in Minnesota, America Roman Catholic TV program for Gen X folks

Roy Moore's 10 Commandments Pin

Christian Fundamentalism

Christopher was terminated for making political statements while he was in the course and scope of his employment

May 21, 2004

Lou Sheldon: America's most homophobic Christian?

Homophobia

Lou Shelton opposes gay marriage, queer spouses, civil partnerships, denouces what he perceives as the homosexual agenda and fights to keep marriage for heterosexuals only.

Thou shalt smite the sinner with boiling french fry grease

Christian woman pours boiling french fry oil on boyfriend in bible fight

Thank you

Richard Evans Lee

Gullibility reviewed

It doesn't take all that much to create a universe

Hodgepodge

Andrei Linde theory of chaotic inflation

May 20, 2004

Roy Moore's attempt to own the 10 commandments

Christian Fundamentalism

Does Roy Moore love the Ten Commandments so much that he wants to own them?

May 19, 2004

Liberal Anglicans pursuing gay agenda

Homophobia

Right wind Anglicans accuse liberal members of promoting homosexuality

America's founding fathers

Hodgepodge

America's founding fathers were freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists who did not accept the divinity of Jesus Christ.

Toothless messiah

Cheap Laughs

Corinth Mississippi Messiah Bill Godwin

May 18, 2004

North Carolina's godly license plates

Christian Pop Culture

Sponsors of a bill to create a special "In God We Trust" license plate said Monday the tag could raise $1 million

Phenomena Tourism

Wishful Thinking

Ron Russell runs a tour company of various popular crop circle sites in England

May 17, 2004

Idolatrous wigs

Superstitious Folly

Many Orthodox Jewish women, who adhere to rules of modesty by allowing only their husbands to see their natural hair

Summon Hecate to punish Iraqi soldiers

New Age (Old Silliness)

Magic spell using three black candles; a picture of a spider; black yarn; and pepper

May 16, 2004

Bishop warns against evil votes

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Roman Catholics who cast evil liberal votes will suffer in purgatory says Bishop

Buddha snot candy

Cheap Laughs

Packaging shows an irreverent picture of Buddha picking his nose

May 15, 2004

Day care license deemed ungodly attack

Christian Fundamentalism

Tennessee Baptist day camp says demand for license violates their rights

May 13, 2004

The eternal quest for bigger breasts

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Diagnosed with cyclomastopathy when she found it was difficult for her to breathe

May 12, 2004

Ensenada virgin no miracle

Wishful Thinking

Virgin on the wall ruled not miraculous by Mexican Roman Catholic Church

May 11, 2004

The Day After Tomorrow

UFOs & Bogus Science

change would cost at least $150 billion each year, yet would do no more than postpone global warming for six years by 2100.

May 10, 2004

Crucified Christ: no communion for Kerry!

Absurd Inurbane Witless , • Catholic

American Life League attack Roman Catholic Church prelates who tolerate liberal democratic politicians

John Kerry = Dukakis redux

Wearisome Bedfellows

Fundagelicals, cultural values, homophobia assure a Bush win over Kerry 2004 election

Public schools teach homosexual lifestyle?

Homophobia

Southern Baptists denouce public schools as being too tolerant of gay students.

How aliens will bring perfect peace & wisdom

UFOs & Bogus Science

Flying saucers form giant educational structure says Ruth Norman

Tardy UFO search

UFOs & Bogus Science

Many searches for Norwood UFO evidence many decades too late

May 9, 2004

Bishops vs. Catholic politicians

Absurd Inurbane Witless , • Catholic

Roman Catholic Bishops seek to force American politicians to condemn abortion by denying them holy communion

May 8, 2004

Twelve Tribes open cafe

Superstitious Folly

Cult waits for 144,000 male virgins to gather and world to end

Prophet Fred

Cults , • Superstitious Folly

John Frum faithful fight a breakaway sect led by Fred Nasse, who calls himself Prophet Fred

May 7, 2004

Godly Good Sex

Christian Pop Culture

Church initiates sexuality programming in an effort to win converts

What would Buffy do?

Wishful Thinking

Buffy the Vampire Slayer viewed as a great moral force

May 6, 2004

Aliens put George Bush in the Oval Office!

UFOs & Bogus Science

Did aliens from outer space arrange for George Bush to become the president of the US?

The Science of Good and Evil

Skeptics & Atheists

Michael Shermer interviewed on the publication of The Science of Good and Evil

May 5, 2004

Fundamentalists are everywhere

Religious Intolerance

Fundamentalists battle what they see as modernity's evils - they themselves are a moden evil.

May 3, 2004

God save America from the fundagelicals

Christian Fundamentalism

The race for the White House will be decided by fundagelicals. That's good news for twice-born George Bush

Creationist funfest & theme park

Christian Fundamentalism

Creationist tourist attraction denouncing Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory

Gangster saint: Our Lady of Death

Superstitious Folly

Mexican crooks and hoodlums worship Santa Muerte

UFOs over Iran

UFOs & Bogus Science

UFO and flying saucer appear in the skies of the Middle East

Arizona & evolution

Miseducation

Some Native Americans reject evolutionary theory, Darwinism

Brazilian psychic wants $25 million

Psychics & Other Frauds

Jucelino Nobrega da Luz claims he found Saddam for the US military

May 2, 2004

Kabbalah Goes Hollywood

Gossip , • New Age (Old Silliness)

Madonna, Mick Jagger, and Britney Spears and the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles

God says to vote for Brother Eddie

Wishful Thinking

Philippines evangelist Brother Eddie runs for president

An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics

Hodgepodge

Christian Fundamentalists are too greedy to let taxes feed and care for the poor