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May 31, 2005

Louis Lamonica

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Hosanna Church pastor arrested.

Asperges Me (Dry Sin)

Religious Intolerance

Cultural Olympiad art exhibition curator on trial for painting insulting the Orthodox Church

May 30, 2005

Be patient!

Hodgepodge

Intelligent Design vs. Darwinian evolution.

Evolutionary theists

Hodgepodge

Some Christians accept evolutionary theory.

May 26, 2005

Ghosts in the brothel museum

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Dumas Brothel in Butte Montana

May 25, 2005

Varieties of atheism

Skeptics & Atheists

Dylan Evan's: The 21st century atheist

Anti-gay Disney boycott failed

Homophobia

Christian group attacked Walt Disney for allowing domestic partnership benefits and gay-themed events.

Play Catechumen and give glory to God

Christian Pop Culture

Christian computer games

Ignorant Kansans

Skeptics & Atheists

Enemies of science and creationists abuse scientists' words for political advantage.

May 23, 2005

Holy war against condoms

Christian Fundamentalism , • Miseducation

Christian rights's federally funded Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage message

Push back the theocrats

Skeptics & Atheists

Atheist backlash?

May 22, 2005

Carolina Cowboy Church

Christian Fundamentalism

House of worship in Midland, NC.

St. Augustine: founded medieval semiology

Hodgepodge

Christopher Hitchens review of a cultural studies, critical theory anthology.

May 21, 2005

Voodoo culture binds women to lives as prostitutes

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Belief in hexs and spells force them to sell themselves.

May 19, 2005

Untouchable puddings

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Evils of Indian caste system persist

Go climb John Paul II Peak

Catholic

Visited it many times to pray

May 18, 2005

Are your parents divorced? Then keep out!

Catholic

School bans admission to sons and daughters of divorced parents.

Exodus and Genesis become video games

Christian Pop Culture

Christian computer and video gaming

Haunted footwear

Spooky Nonsense: Ghosts & Hauntings

Dead butcher's spirit said to haunt Cornwall shoe shop.

The worship of Mary OK

Catholic

Anglicans seek to align themselves with Marian dogmas

$1,000,000 in Silver Ring Things

Christian Fundamentalism

Teen chastity movement based on 1 Thessalonians 4, 3-4

May 16, 2005

Wear human skin for riches

Absurd Inurbane Witless

Tanzanian witch doctors make charms from the skin of kidnapped people.

Taoist bun-scrambles

Asian , • Hodgepodge

They climb the towers and fight over the buns.

Paul Schäfer' Colonia Dignidad

Cults

Ex-Nazi ruled apocalypic mind control cult in Chile.

May 15, 2005

Jane Fonda meet Jesus Christ

Gossip

Says it is easy to reconcile feminism with Christianity.

May 14, 2005

Public schools are godless

Homophobia

Southern Baptist denounces tolerance of gay people

Captain MeLinda Morton

Religious Intolerance

Lutheran minister who reported abuse of other students by Christian cadets fired.

May 13, 2005

Happily Gay Atheist No Longer

Homophobia , • Richard Evans Lee

Homophobes and bigots didn’t understand my weblog’s comment form.

Christian long distance telephone company

Faith is Profitable

United American Technologies questionable sales tactics.

May 12, 2005

Dieting to look like Jesus

Faith is Profitable

The Maker's Diet, The Hallelujah Diet and Body by God, Lose it For Life, What Would Jesus Eat?

Chan Chandler leaves East Waynesville Baptist Church

Christian Fundamentalism

North Carolina Baptist church split by pastor’s abusive manner.

May 11, 2005

Jesus Christ returns ... to kitchen cabinet

Cheap Laughs

Bogus holy, faux miraculous apparitions are occurring all across America as the growth of religious faith is accompanied by an increase in gullibility.

Imagine a Vatican condom factory

Catholic

Pope Benedict XVI must see that the Vatican’s hostility to condoms is killing people.

This is an anti-theist, anti-lunacy weblog

Richard Evans Lee

Have fun talking about true Christianity elsewhere. I'm just here to laugh at everybody.

Jerry Springer offends even as an opera

Cheap Laughs

Religious people complain about TV broadcast of Jerry Springer opera.

African Child Tortured as Witch in Britain

Absurd Inurbane Witless

English refugee from Africa tortured as witch by family members.

Vatican Radio's Electro-smog

Catholic

Vatican Radio's Cardinal Roberto Tucci avoids jail

What else has to happen before Moshiach comes?

Wishful Thinking

Baskbetball victory signals return of Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

May 10, 2005

Rocking for Jesus in Marrakech

Christian Pop Culture

Christian music festival in Muslim Marrakech Morocco.

She's Back! Holy Power of Degreaser

Catholic

Visions of the Holy Virgin Mary spread like a plague of delusion.

May 8, 2005

Baptists tell Democratic congregation members to leave

Wearisome Bedfellows

Republican pastor of East Waynesville Baptist Church tells Democratic voters to get out of his church.

May 7, 2005

666 RIP. Number of the beast is 616.

Hodgepodge

Biblical archaeology at Oxyrhynchus reveals that the true number of the beast is 616.

Salt stain Madonna painted over

Catholic

Chicago Marian apparition – a tunnel wall salt stain – had graffiti written on it then it was painted over.

Bob Jones IV takes power

Christian Fundamentalism , • Miseducation

Stephen Jones takes over leadership of fundagelical Bob Jones University from father.

Catholic busybody seeks to block judge from Holy Communion

Catholic

Respect Life Office hopes to stop Florida Judge from being allowed communion.

Baptists don't like modern psychology

Mental, Social Pseudoscience

Baptist counselors trained to be homophobic.

May 6, 2005

Pope Benedict XVI's car goes for $244,000

Catholic , • Cheap Laughs

Golden Palace casino, of Austin in Texas buys odd and miraculous objects on eBay.

May 5, 2005

Pittsburgh man claims to know location of Holy Grail & Ark of the Covenant

The Da Vinci Code , • Wishful Thinking

Man claims holy artifacts are buried under the grounds of a Scottish chapel.

Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven

Gossip

Movie starring Orlando Bloom: anti-Christian, anti-Muslim? Simple-minded swashbuckler? Boring?

May 4, 2005

Holy Cow!

Superstitious Folly

India's struggles to cope with sacred animals that cause problems, kill and maim people.

Pope John Paul II trading cards

Catholic

The market for John Paul collectibles heated up dramatically

Acupuncture = placebo

Miracle Cures, Health Quackery

Chinese Traditional Medical cure is another example of the placebo effect.

The Evolution-Creation Struggle

Miseducation

Highlighting modern-day partisans as divergent as Richard Dawkins and Left Behind.

Definitely the bike Jesus would ride

What can you say?

Motorcycle riders have their bikes blessed my pastors and priests.

May 2, 2005

The onion squeezing witch

Superstitious Folly

Gosaiganj, near Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, is gripped by fears of a witch who begs for onions.