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September 30, 2004

Satan's cell phone cameras

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Arabs fear cell phone cameras spread obscenity and do evil by taking photos of women.

September 29, 2004

Fiberglass Jesus

Wishful Thinking

In Texas pilgrims give homage to a statue of Jesus Christ that floated in from the sea.

Walt Disney's Buddha Mouse

Cheap Laughs

Walt Disney speaks from beyond the grave about his new character.

Jimmy Swaggart's tax-exempt status challenged

Homophobia

Does Jimmy Swaggart Ministries federal tax laws because of televangelist's attack on gay people.

Doctor Butcher's Chop Shop

Christian Fundamentalism

Heritage Baptist Church in Loganville PA will have anti-abortion Halloween float.

A Kumari's life

Asian , • Superstitious Folly

Young girls live temporarily and Buddhist and Hindu goddesses only to be tossed aside at puberty.

The Free Church of Country Sports

Cheap Laughs

The increase in the religion’s membership is yet another indicator of the desperation among pro-hunt campaigners to stave off a ban

Christian brawl at Jesus' tomb

Hodgepodge

Christians beat each other up at the Holy Sepulcher.

September 28, 2004

Gay marriage: a virus

Homophobia

Spain legalizes same-sex weddings, Roman Catholic Church complains.

Get Jesus on that credit card!

Hodgepodge

Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network is just another example of the American prosperty gospel scam popular with TV preachers.

Psychic dogs predict election outcome

Psychics & Other Frauds

Stallone's ESP powered dogs predict election results.

September 27, 2004

Maya Keyes

Homophobia

Alan Keyes lesbian daughter. How does he feel to be the father of a gay woman?

Kooky Kübler-Ross

Mental, Social Pseudoscience

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross bad sociology, junk science, false psychology.

September 26, 2004

David Koresh's Chevy Camaro

Cheap Laughs

Donald Feldpausch of San Antonio won David Koresh's Chevy Camaro at auction.

Shouldn't Muslim pupils pay attention in class?

Religious Intolerance

Christian teacher has gone into hiding in the northern Nigerian city of Kano

Another child-abusing preacher goes to prison

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Donald Lee Flanery pastor of The Family of Christ jailed for abusing minor.

Popetown!

Blasphemy is fun

Popetown cartoon comic gives an unflattering portrayal of the Roman Catholic pontiff and the college of cardinals.

Praying about football is banal

What can you say?

Norwegian Minister of Culture and Church Affairs remarks about praying for soccer teams prompts debate in Norway.

September 23, 2004

Gullibility around the world

Superstitious Folly

Zealots of all persuasions – Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and Jewish – welcome attacks on science and reason.

Hell Houses

Christian Pop Culture

Hollywood Hell House parodies the fundamentalist Hell Houses.

Halloween falls on Sunday

What can you say?

Roanoke City Council will keep Halloween on Sunday.

Harjas

Cheap Laughs

Dr. Wendy Lockwood: Harjas is to to protect the planet from another so-called messiah named Maitreya, who looks like Osama bin Laden.

Mexican priests jam cell phones

Hodgepodge

Mexican churches employ mobile telephone jamming systems

Special sun rays produce male children

Superstitious Folly

Couples have to perform long rituals to purify themselves before bathing in the pond together.

Woman beaten for not resurrecting child

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Bihar woman blamed for the death of an infant due to her witchcraft was made to carry the dead body and then beaten

Spooked statisticians

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Students at a Delhi university have been given an unexpected week off - thanks to a ghost on the campus.

September 22, 2004

Dr. Gene Scott has cancer

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Lovable old fraud and television preacher Doctor Gene Scott has prostate cancer and faith didn't heal him.

Where would Jesus boogie?

Blasphemy is fun

Church leaders have united in condemning the use of the Christian cross as the focal point for the refurbishment of a popular nightclub.

September 21, 2004

American fundamentalism drives Bush's Middle East policy

Christian Fundamentalism

American Christian fundamentalists control President George Bush's Middle East policy

God Vishwakarma stops train accidents

Wishful Thinking

Claim made that Hindu God keeps trains safe.

Yoga: an aberration

Religious Intolerance

Muslim clerics say the Hindu yoga violates Islamic law.

God and the Democratic Party

Wearisome Bedfellows

Democrats will never again be capable of winning the hearts and minds of a majority of the American people unless they are seen as a party that takes religion seriously.

September 20, 2004

Liberals to ban Bible

Cheap Laughs

Republicans tell citizens of West Virginia that Democratic politicians will ban the Christian Bible.

Jimmy Swaggart: I'd kill that faggot

Homophobia

Jimmy Swaggart likes hookers but would kill queers.

September 17, 2004

Baba Mohan Das

What can you say?

Lotan Baba claims to have blessings of a goddess

September 16, 2004

Haunted by procreation

Homophobia

Alen Keyes says gay marriage is evil because it isn't haunted by procreation.

Pope: deplores unrestrained secularism

Catholic

Pope says people in New Zealand spend too much time with rugby, soccer and football.

September 15, 2004

Harry Potter = aimless looting

Cheap Laughs

Evil Harry Potter will loot and plunder, aimlessly making war as a tool of Satan.

September 14, 2004

Witchcraft & soccer

Superstitious Folly

Witchcraft, juju being used to influence the outcomes of soccer matches.

Wine bibbing priests want chauffeurs

Catholic

Croatian priests often drunk after communion services.

Pope: gay marriage violates God's plan for humanity

Catholic , • Homophobia

Roman Catholic Pope condemns gay marriages.

She killed him with an evil grin on her face

Superstitious Folly

Murderer claimed she was controlled by Kabbalah cult.

V.S. Naipaul: destroy the intolerant

Hodgepodge

V.S. Naipauls solution to religious wars: destroy those that start them.

Should we blame God for George Bush?

Wearisome Bedfellows

Are the White House and the Bush campaign actively encouraging the idea that Bush has been put there by God?

Naked Raelians

Gossip

Followers of Rael to do nude pictorial in Playboy.

September 13, 2004

Alien beings beam fear via TV

UFOs & Bogus Science

Aliens from outside the galaxy send fear waves via television.

September 12, 2004

Paul Crouch vs. Enoch Lonnie Ford

Homophobia

Televangelist Paul Crouch president of Trinity Broadcasting Network had gay affair with another man.

Witchdoctor license

Some 70% of South Africans consult healers, known as sangomas, the health ministry says.

Theory of evolution ban

Miseducation

Biologist Nikola Tucic described the original ruling as outrageous

Virgin Mary here, there, everywhere

Catholic

An investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world, the priests and scientists who investigate them

September 11, 2004

Walt Disney and god

Hodgepodge

The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust by Mark I. Pinsky

17 year old girls and god

Gossip

Seventeen magazine brings religion to America's young girls.

September 10, 2004

Open season on Great Lake Monster

Wishful Thinking

Storsjon means Great Lake, the monster is Sweden's answer to Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, Norway's Selma and Argentina's Nahuelito

Thou shalt not ... er ... something ...

Hodgepodge

Few in England know the 10 commandments. Church of England gets ever smaller.

September 9, 2004

Teenage girls love religion

Gossip

Seventeen magazine published for young American women adds a section devoted to faith and god.