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June 30, 2004

God is a product of brain disorder

Hodgepodge

Belief in god, religious faith caused by brain disorder called temporal lobe epilepsy.

Shaolin monks seek trademark

Asian , • Cheap Laughs

Shaolin name used to sell a range of goods, from beer, wine and cigarettes to furniture and tires.

NC judge must restore references to God

Hodgepodge

District Judge James M. Honeycutt had taken it upon himself to change courtroom procedures.

Gwen Shamblin's Remnant

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Christian diet guru accused of fostering child abuse in her Remnant Fellowship Church.

June 29, 2004

Fundagelicals love President Bush

Wearisome Bedfellows

Christian right is gearing up for the campaign, eager to defend as one of their own a president who has pushed - at least rhetorically - their conservative social agenda and who said he is a born-again Christian.

Widow's mite not good enough for vicar

Hodgepodge

I felt it was not right that guests at weddings should be giving far less than Sunday morning worshippers

Rabbi's ban on Hindu hair fails

Hodgepodge

Jewish orthodox code of modesty requires married women to cover their hair in public so they wear wigs.

St Winefride's Well in Holywell

Wishful Thinking

The well is regarded both as one of the seven wonders of Wales

Order of Christ Sophia

Superstitious Folly

Parents Say Group Turns Family Members Into Strangers and changes name to Center of Light.

June 28, 2004

Christianity destroys families

Homophobia

Susan Serra and brother Town Councilor Richard Rippy Serra and gay marriage.

June 27, 2004

No Silver Ring Thing for Britain

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Britain's lack of virgins leads to failure of America's Silver Ring Thing movement.

June 24, 2004

Religious representations are sustained by a whole variety of different systems

Skeptics & Atheists

Psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience offer a more empirical understanding of religions.

Homophobic Christian 'Scientists'

Homophobia

Clementson married Suzanne Nightingale and was thrown out of Christian Science school.

June 23, 2004

Vatican vs Madonna, Esther

Catholic , • Cheap Laughs , • Gossip

Kabbalah promoted by Madonna, was high on a list of New Age fads.

Sound of one penis slapping

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Former nuns, who were found guilty of luring the girls to the temple for Chamlong to molest.

Republicans claim America for Jesus

Wearisome Bedfellows

A leading Jewish group Republican Party in Texas to stop calling the United States a Christian nation in its platform.

Welsh archdruid wants Stonehenge returned

Cheap Laughs

The archdruid of Wales has called for England's most famous landmark to be returned to Wales.

Will Jesus save Bush's presidency?

Wearisome Bedfellows

President George Bush believes that Jesus will return soon and that we are living the End Times as pictures in the book of Revelation.

Macaulay Culkin on Christians

Christian Pop Culture

Saved: The religious satire starring Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin and Jena Malone

The Power of Kabbalah

New Age (Old Silliness)

Rabbi Philip Berg has made the Kabbalah New Age touchy-feely mysticism

June 22, 2004

Christian idol worship

Christian Pop Culture

Wright Entertainment Group and Trinity Broadcasting Network bring America Gifted a Christian TV talent contest.

Christian dinosaur hunters

Superstitious Folly

South Dakota but the Christians excavating one remote cliff-face were digging not just for reptilian vertebrae

Handological analysis of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Cheap Laughs

Gerald E. Picard handology research reveals unseen character traits

June 21, 2004

Gay marriage ... yawn ... ?

Homophobia

Right wing Christian fundamentalist protest that gay marriages haven't roused churchgoers to homphobic activity.

June 18, 2004

Bush-Cheney pastors reception

Wearisome Bedfellows

Bush campaign escalates its appeals to conservative Christian churches

Mel Gibson's power

Christian Pop Culture

Actor Mel Gibson has been named as the world's most powerful celebrity by US business magazine Forbes

June 16, 2004

Vatican: just a little torture, murder

Catholic

Vatican research findings cannot excuse the work of the Inquisition that terrorized thousands.

Monsignor Peter Fleetwood vs the new age

Catholic

Pope John Paul II's church is far less tolerant about practices and beliefs that differ with Catholic theology.

Separation of church and state is a myth

Miseducation

Creationist opposes evolutionary theory, blames Supreme Court.

Fundagelicals protest Adam & Steve

Homophobia

American Christian fundamentalists protest gay marriages in New York.

June 15, 2004

Kerissa Fare (Playboy's Miss September 2000) & Armageddon

Cheap Laughs

Glenn Taylor Helzer said he was the one true prophet of God and devised something called the 12 Principles of Magic .

June 11, 2004

George Tenent felled by Pojan jinx

Cheap Laughs

George Tenet's sudden resignation: he fell victim to an ancient Albanian curse

Sovereign Christian nation of South Carolina

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Christian Exodus takes that idea one step further with the succession idea, and with its focus on Biblical issues.

Benny Hinn: should there be a law?

Superstitious Folly

Benny Hinn gets rich from his claims of miraculous healing. Sane Christians know he's a fake.

Television miracles banned

Superstitious Folly

Programs showing miracles have disappeared from TV.

Maria Lionza falls

Wishful Thinking

Maria Lionza has inspired hope and granted wishes to devotees for more than 200 years

Dinosaurs refused passage on Noah's ark

Christian Fundamentalism

Earth is much younger than scientists claim and dinosaurs co-existed with the first humans

June 9, 2004

Family Friendly Programming vs the gay agenda

Homophobia

Forum includes Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola.

The Hallelujah Diet

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Preacher-turned-diet adviser Hallelujah Acres North Carolina

Cosmic radio signals on your home TV!

UFOs & Bogus Science , • Wishful Thinking

Cosmic Radio Signals are at: 91mhz (91fm-radio); 160mhz (160 vhf-radio near the national weather station at 162.5mhz); 610mhz/ TV channel 78 UHF non cable TV.

Montana Baptists claim to be exempt from law

Homophobia

Gay rights advocates say the church should have filed with the commissioner before holding such an event

June 8, 2004

Galacto = intergalactic cash

UFOs & Bogus Science

Galactos propsosed as standard means of monetary exchange in outer space by UFO fan Kiril Kanew

June 7, 2004

Oregon churches use ballots to fight gay weddings

Homophobia

Basic Rights Oregon is doing what it can to keep the gay marriage ban off the ballot

June 6, 2004

Ronald Reagan

Christian Fundamentalism , • Richard Evans Lee , • Wearisome Bedfellows

Good bye to a president that cuddled up to Christian extremists and fundamentalist bigots.

Atlantis

Wishful Thinking

Earliest known records of this mythical land appear in Plato's dialogues Critias and Timaios

June 4, 2004

Dead author continues writing

Hodgepodge

Remained a steady presence on bestseller lists

June 3, 2004

Rabbi to Madonna: sluts can't be Kabbalists

Cheap Laughs

Philip Berg attacked for letting Madonna speak for the Kabbalah a spiritual movement rooted in Jewish mysticism

June 2, 2004

If you attack the Catholic Church, it’s like attacking Coke or Microsoft!

Catholic

The Catholic Church is so irrational that it must remain as it is. If it starts to open up, it will collapse