This is always a source of amusement. This time God came to Pat in the guise of Al Roker. Or something. Pat told viewers of the 700 Club: "If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms." On today’s show, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami … Read More
About The Da Vinci Code
Conservative Christians don’t want you to see it because they don’t want people to entertain the possibility that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child. Religious sect Opus Dei don’t want you to see it because they don’t like the fact that they’re depicted in the film as a bunch of self-flagellating albino weirdos. But there’s another … Read More
Unholy Alliance
Time magazine, June 1998: "The G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn’t find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives." New York Times, May 13, 2006: Some of President Bush’s most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning … Read More
Where Is Jesus Today?
On a piece of sheet metal? On the side of a tree? On some bedroom furniture in Romania? Or the drywall in Alabama? With his mother in a Chicago underpass? With his mother on a grilled cheese sandwich? You know, she’s the sandwich; he’s the potato chips? No, that’s silly. Jesus wouldn’t be on a potato chip — he’d be … Read More
James Dobson Called Me A Homo
I don’t know why I take these people seriously anymore, but because so many others do, I do. Focus On The Family founder James Dobson recently spewed some more pseudo-science out of his ass. In trying to explain the roots of homosexuality, he advances a theory known as "detachment and differentiation." I’ll let him explain, in his own words: This … Read More
Midway High School Messes Up
"The Day of Silence" was a youth-led national event in which LGBT high school students and their supporters chose not to speak for one day in school. Instead, they handed out cards to those who asked, explaining why they were not speaking. The day was April 26. The purpose was to focus attention on the actual silencing of homosexuals as … Read More
Blessed Are The — Huh?!?
The 2006 Exodus Freedom Conference is a-comin’, and sex-obsessed fundamentalists will be gathering this year to engage in workshops about, well, sex. Some of it is okay (workshops dealing with harassment, etc.), but mostly, it’s about same-sex issues and how not to be gay. There’s so much to choose from. You can listen to a former "sex addict" lecture on: … Read More
Gay Marriage Does Not Affect Religious Liberty
What effect, if any, will same-sex marriages have on religious liberty? At first blush, your answer is probably "none". After all, if the gay couple down the street gets married, whose religious freedom does it impugn? But, as Maggie Gallagher points out, there is an argument here: Catholic Charities of Boston, one of the nation’s oldest adoption agencies, had long … Read More
The Da Vinci Code Controversy
From Reuters: In the latest Vatican broadside against "The Da Vinci Code", a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded. Well, I’m pretty sure that Christ himself never founded the Catholic Church (Peter, perhaps), but let’s set that aside and look at the legal … Read More
Creationism = Paganism
Okay, here’s the quote of the day: "Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism" Now, it’s your turn. Who made this claim? Was it the ACLU? Some atheist organization? Nope. It was… The Vatican! This not going to go down well with evangelicals: Believing that God created the universe in six days … Read More
The Unitarian Jihad
This is only funny if you are familiar with the Unitarian Church. A San Francisco columnist received an anonymous letter from the Unitarian Jihad: Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one … Read More
Pump Prayers
I don’t know what to make of this: WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) — A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps. Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. … Read More
The Elusive O
Some rightwing Christian nuttery is simply too good not to pass on. Via Sadly, No, via TBogg, we’re treated to the musings of a blog called the "Edicts of Nancy", and her unique theories: The Left continues to tout the existence of the elusive female orgasm, despite all biological evidence to the contrary. As I have often said, if The … Read More
We’re Awaiting Pat Robertson’s Interpretation
Lightning kills 5 Mexican children in prayer Youths between 9 and 16 die praying at metal cross in central Mexico