For all their faults both in structure and execution, mainstream religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are pretty open with followers and the outside world when it comes to what the religion is all about. In Christianity, for instance, its all there in the good book – how the earth was formed, how Jesus [...]
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When Interviews With Charlatan Faith Healers Go Bad
October 20th, 2009
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Benny Hinn is my “favorite” of the fake faith healers on TV — he’s the one who throws the holy ghost into the crowd and they all fall down. Check out his flack trying to ruin an interview when the ABC reporter gets a little too inquisitive.
Hostile Takeover By Catholic Church?
October 20th, 2009
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As someone who watches this church stuff from the sidelines as a bemused observer, this move by the Catholic Church sounds like when a corporate raider buys up an ailing corporation and absorbs their intellectual property and a few valuable assets.
The Vatican said Tuesday it has worked out a way for groups of Anglicans who [...]
Video: Atheist Comedian Performs In Church
August 19th, 2009
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Funny stuff from this Magnus Betnér guy.
This probably wouldn’t happen in most churches in America or Jamaica, in my experience.
Video: “One Regular, One Indian”
August 13th, 2009
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This makes my head hurt. I comfort myself with the thought that it might not be real. I hope.
If it is real, it’s a pretty good example of what orthodox religion screws up in people.
Logic You Can’t Argue With
June 23rd, 2009
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TV preacher explains the evil magic of Michael J. Fox, Stevie Nicks, and Kenny Loggins. Highway to the danger zone is clearly the theme song of hell.
Emulating The Religious Right?
May 19th, 2009
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That’s what John Aravosis is doing here when he extrapolates the sentiment of one Mormon that Jon Huntsman should evangelize for his church in China to be a set-in-stone mandate that no matter what Huntsman says, he will do this. Huh?
Huntsman is no more bound by his church’s beliefs than anyone else in the world. [...]
Literal Bible?
April 18th, 2009
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I do a lot of bitching about atheism, but this video was a funny way of poking holes in the bible.
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Conservatives Lied About “Cover Up” Of Religious Symbols At Georgetown
April 16th, 2009
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Shock.
CNSNews.com, a conservative web site affiliated with the Media Research Center, reported that the gold “IHS” monogram inscribed in Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was covered by a piece of black-painted plywood.
The White House denied that there was any effort to specifically cover up religious imagery or symbols and noted that on the wall directly behind the [...]
Happy Easter Folks
April 12th, 2009
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And lets remember the peace and love side of Jesus while we’re at it…
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.”
Matthew 5:9
Catholic Church Hid Child Rapists Decades Before Previously Acknowledged
April 1st, 2009
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As I’ve said in the past: Until the church is subject to a full RICO-style investigation of its serial crime, justice will not be served.
As early as the mid-1950s, decades before the clergy sexual-abuse crisis broke publicly across the U.S. Catholic landscape, the founder of a religious order that dealt regularly with priest sex abusers [...]
More Catholic Church Nuttery
March 19th, 2009
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Oh, Pope Benedict. You are the spiritual leader for so many, why can’t you do better?
Since stepping off the papal plane Tuesday, attention to Benedict’s pilgrimage has been largely focused on the Vatican’s refusal to advocate condoms as a way to help stop the spread of AIDS, which is ravaging Africa in a pandemic that [...]
The Honest Archbishop
March 15th, 2009
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At least one Catholic archbishop is speaking 9yr old out about that Brazilian girl who had to get an abortion lest it kill her.
Sadly, this is more the exception to the norm when it comes to church business.
Catholic Church Excommunicates Mother, Doctor Of 9 Yr Old Who Had Abortion But Not The Father That Raped Her
March 8th, 2009
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The Catholic church once again demonstrates the follies of organized religion.
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church’s Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that [...]
I’m As Powerful As Ted Turner*
March 2nd, 2009
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Well, it isn’t every day that I get compared to the founder of CNN. The proud know-nothings at Newsbusters are up in arms over this post I made on Ash Wednesday. In the twisted mind of Ken Shepherd, the post was somehow mocking of the entire concept of Ash Wednesday.
I thought for a second about [...]
Religion Is Weird
February 25th, 2009
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As I write this, millions of people around the world have a charcoal cross scratched across their foreheads, and everybody who doesn’t have one on will walk past these people and act as if everything is normal.
Religion, you are weird.
Vatican Feels Pressure On Holocaust Denier (We Checked! #3)
February 4th, 2009
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Bill Donohue won’t be pleased. That’s a good thing.
The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted into the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vatican also said in a statement that Pope Benedict XVI didn’t know about Bishop Richard Williamson’s views when he agreed to lift his excommunication [...]
Bill Donohue Defends Catholic Church Reinstatement Of Holocaust Denier
February 2nd, 2009
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Predictable, but still kind of amazing the lengths Bill Donohue and the conservative Catholic League will go to defend whatever the church does, hides, and endorses. From a Catholic League press release:
On January 29, nearly 50 Catholic Democratic congressmen sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI stating their concerns over Bishop Richard Williamson’s comments questioning [...]
Vatican Knocks Another One Out Of The Park, Brings Holocaust Denier Back Into The Fold
January 24th, 2009
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So, is this what the church does when it isn’t covering up for pedophiles? Seriously, come on.
Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including that of a Holocaust denier whose rehabilitation sparked outrage among Jewish groups.
The four bishops were excommunicated 20 years ago after they were consecrated by the [...]
