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July 30, 2004

KY Black Baptists: women can't vote

Homophobia

Kentucky's black Baptist churches vote against women voters and same-sex marriages.

July 28, 2004

Bullshit! Season 3

Skeptics & Atheists

Penn and Teller's debunking TV show Bullshit renewed for third season on Shotime.

Teens drive market for Christian games

Christian Pop Culture

Teenagers are the driving force behind the upswing in profitable Christian merchandise.

Christian sex

Christian Pop Culture

Good Sex is a Christian TV show exploring sexuality and the Bible.

July 27, 2004

Pilgrimage certificates

Christian Pop Culture

Israel to offer pilgrimage certificates to fundagelicals who tour the Holy Land.

18 million ordained

Cheap Laughs

Cheap and easy ministries from the Universal Life Church.

More Kabbalah gossip

Cheap Laughs , • Gossip

Kevin Federline, Britney spears may wed in Kabbalah ceremony.

July 26, 2004

Kill scientists

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Animal rights activists calls for murder of scientists. Hate to think of creationists making a similar call.

July 25, 2004

SETI scientist optimistic or arbitrary?

UFOs & Bogus Science

Seth Shostak, the SETI Institute's senior astronomer makes an arbitrary prediction of communication with ETs.

At the creationist museum

Miseducation

Museum proves that creationism is bad science.

Did God stop Hitler?

Miseducation

Christianit curriculum makes God out to be a busybody in human history.

Losing a Lost Tribe

Hodgepodge

Genetic research challenges the Mormon belief that the Lamanites - Native Americans are descendents of a Israelite patriarch Lehi.

Sukyo Mahikari

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Japanese religion used to treat cancer patients.

July 22, 2004

Gay marriage will destroy the economy

Catholic , • Homophobia

Spanish Catholic clergy say same-sex marriages would bring social and economic chaos.

July 21, 2004

Theocon, theocons

Wearisome Bedfellows

Theocon is a neologism denoting someone with a theological conservative political ideology.

Relgious book sale boom continues

Christian Pop Culture , • The Da Vinci Code

Religious books, including bad fiction and pious self-help books, sell ever better in the US of A.

Goodbye Protestants

Hodgepodge

Fewer Americans identify as Protestant or attend churchs in the Protestant denominations.

Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent

Cheap Laughs

Sun Myung Moon declared himself the Messiah.

July 20, 2004

Begging bishop

Absurd Inurbane Witless

John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds begs elderly hospital patient for bequest.

Glorious Appearing

Christian Pop Culture

Bloodthirsty loveless Jesus in Left Behind's Glorious Appearing.

July 18, 2004

Church of Spongebob

Cheap Laughs

Spongebob Squarepants becomes object of faith and worship: Church of Spongebob.

July 14, 2004

No evidence of 1947 Roswell UFO crash

UFOs & Bogus Science

Research funded by the University of New Mexico and the Sci-Fi Channel turns up no evidence of flying saucer crash in Roswell.

July 13, 2004

New Catholic priest sex scandal

Catholic

The Forum XXIII Catholic lobby for reform of the Austrian church demanded intervention by the Vatican.

Haunted kitchen

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Spain's most famous haunted house is for sale

Priests need their wine

Cheap Laughs

Priests afraid of drunk driving law.

July 11, 2004

Talking Jesus doll

Christian Pop Culture

Jesus action figure stands 12 inches high, wears biblical robes.

Cardinal Ratzinger's Kerry communion memo

Catholic

Cardinal Ratzinger's memo tells American bishops to refuse communion to John Kerry and other pro-abortion politicians.

Church advertising boom

Christian Pop Culture

American churches and denominations begin spending more and more money on television advertising.

Psychic crime stoppers

Psychics & Other Frauds

Psychics claim to solve crimes, evidence says psychics have never helped the police catch a criminal.

July 8, 2004

Cloned raelian baby interviewed

Cheap Laughs

Stuff magazine talks to the famous clone baby produced by the Rael cult.

Does popular science pander?

Hodgepodge

Brian Greene, physicist as celebrity, popular science writing as pap.

July 7, 2004

Objective in name only?

Richard Evans Lee

Objectivity isn't easily achieved, certainly to by those who claim to be objective and sometimes call themselves Objectivists.

Blaming disasters on god

Superstitious Folly

Earthquakes called the Will of God.

Unholy toilet seat covers, finger puppets, lingerie

Hodgepodge

Toilet seat covers, boxes of tissues, shoes, sandals and finger puppets have all been tracked down bearing images of Lord Krishna, Ram, Saraswati and so on.

July 6, 2004

Senatorial yawn on gay marriage

Homophobia

Family Research Council efforts not motivating voters in Senate elections in America.

Sacrifice a kidney for Jesus

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Leader of an internet cult today said some members have lied to health authorities so that they could donate their kidneys to Australians in need of a transplant.

A craziness difficult to understand for Europeans

Miseducation

Evolution in the American South.

July 5, 2004

Taliban murders women election workers

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Afghan women are being threatened for participating in the elections

July 4, 2004

Virginia revives Blue Laws

Cheap Laughs

Virginia restores Blue Laws Bible Factory employee wants Sunday off to go to church.

July 3, 2004

Voynich hoax

Hodgepodge

Voynichese: Edward Kelley may have concocted the document to defraud Rudolph II.

July 2, 2004

Presbyterian Church may schism over gay clergy

Homophobia

July 1, 2004

Din Rodef

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Jews who give away any part of Biblical Israel to non-Jews could be killed under a religious law.

John Kerry heretic

Catholic

John Kerry heretic for receiving Holy Communion as a pro-choice Catholic.