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It’s OK to be a bad Christian, as long as you’re a good liar

What a great rant by John Fugelsang on newly reelected scumbag Mark Sanford:

Casting the First Stone?

This week, Pat Robertson had a segment warning his viewers about a pyramid investment scheme that lured suckers in with references to religious scriptures. “Beware of these scamsters, especially scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible. I mean, run from them. They’re all over the place.” But just a day earlier, Robertson had praised a [...]

Russell Brand v. WBC

Russell Brand takes on two members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Complete bizarreness ensues. Who knew that Gandhi went to hell!

Backwards to the Future!

© Kevin Siers If the Catholic Church isn’t going to look to the future, how about going all the way back to the past? Ed Stein has a novel idea: It’s time for the Church to think outside the box. Pope Benedict is the first Pope to resign in six centuries. If you’re going to [...]

Holiday Special

© Drew Sheneman How can anyone believe there is a war on Christmas? I’ve been inundated with Christmas songs, decorations, and everything else for weeks already. If there is a war on Christmas, it is the effort to turn it into a consumer extravaganza, rather than a religious holiday.

Guess the Fundamentalists!

Slate has an interesting quiz. They have a list of nine quotes, and you are supposed to figure out if they were said by a Christian social conservative leader, or by an Islamic fundamentalist leader. Some of the quotes are easy because they were recently in the news, even though they sound completely crazy. Like [...]

Graven Images

© Ruben Bolling God commanded “Thou shalt not kill”. Four words, each of one syllable. Could he spell it out any clearer?

Bad Cinema

We are starting to learn more about the (so-called) film that caused all the fuss in Islamic countries. I say so-called, because it seems to be impossible to actually see the film. Most people haven’t even watched the 14 minute trailer (and for good reason). It turns out that the actors who were hired to [...]

The American Taliban

Does God Hate the GOP?

I don’t believe it for a moment, but you do have to ask the question… Four years ago, James Dobson and Focus On the Family actually ran an ad calling for people to pray to God to rain out Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. I don’t know how many people [...]

Pro-Life Obama v. Romney

[I am reprinting this article by Nicholas P. Cafardi from the National Catholic Reporter in its entirety because it is perfect. It is beyond hypocritical that politicians regularly claim they believe in one thing, while their actions directly support the opposite. And shame on us for letting them get away with it. -- iron knee] [...]

Marriage according to the Bible

from Unicorn Booty Personally, I believe that Jesus wouldn’t care one way or another about same-sex marriage, and that some people are just using the Bible to support their own homophobia and sexism. Which is pretty darn unchristian-like.

The Mormon Questions

Only Jon Stewart could get away with asking these questions:

What Moral Decline?

Are you getting tired of all the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth from the religious right about the moral decline of America? Rick Santorum claims that “Satan has his sights on the United States of America”. Newt Gingrich says “A country that has been now since 1963 relentlessly in the courts driving God [...]

Religion is Big Business

© Brian McFadden I’m definitely not anti-religion, but it seems crazy to me that we give huge (as much as 100%) tax breaks to churches to run normal businesses, and they even get to make profits. Doesn’t that violate the establishment clause since it allows the government to decide what is a religion, and then [...]