The fundies in California are pissed off.  They’re so pissed off that they’re urging conservative Christian parents to take their children out of the public school system and into home schooling where they will supposedly receive a better education while being indoctrinated with the “right” moral values.
The source of all of this uproar?  SB-777 - […]

Hamas, that lovable terrorist organization masquerading as a legitimate political organization in Palestine, has stepped up their propaganda with Saraa the Rabbit.  Saraa is a loveable plush animal who hails suicide bombers as martyrs and encourages young Palestinian children to kill Jewish people and occupy Tel Aviv, capital of Israel.
Saraa is a replacement for Nahul […]

An atheist in Huddlesfield, England has seen the image of the Big Bang in a piece of toast.  This miracle is almost enough to absolve the U.K. of the silliness surrounding their recent ghostbusting exploits.
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Today is chock full of religiously motivated stupidity, and I haven’t even had time to brush up on Christian News Wire.  But for today’s first post I’m going to shift gears away from mainstream religion for a moment and tackle some good old-fashioned superstition.
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?  The […]

I suppose it serves me right for saying something even remotely positive about Islam, because the same day in Denmark five muslim men were arrested in a plot to murder one of the twelve Danish cartoonists who drew a caricature of the prophet Mohammed that Islamic extremists deemed offensive, to put it mildly.
And as we […]

I came across this article at Radar online about the evangelical Christians who run Forever 21, a fashion retail chain that has grown into a national retail juggernaut.  The Changs, the Korean owners who started the business twenty-four years ago, attribute all of their success to the love of Jesus and the good old fashioned […]

Catholics in Singapore are getting worked up over a line of Jesus branded cosmetics on the shelves of British retailer Topshop.  Evidently it’s in poor taste to slap Jesus’ image onto a product and sell it at retail.
The self-righteous protests against using Jesus on something as worldly and frivolous as cosmetics are by far the […]

There’s a bit of a dust up taking place in Turkey right now.  The moderate Islamic AKP party that came to power in the early 00s in Turkey have successfully pushed through constitutional amendments that lift a ban on wearing head scarves.  The ban was put in place in the mid 90s by the ruling […]

Know the candidates is something that will become a regular feature here in election years.  These posts will cover the religious beliefs and background, and how those beliefs have influenced their political lives over the years.
I’m starting this feature with John McCain mainly because he has broken ahead of the pack as the front runner […]

John McCain received an endorsement from evangelical conservative Gary Bauer earlier today.  This doesn’t come as a surprise since Bauer endorsed McCain back in the 2000 election when his own campaign came to a grinding halt.
So McCain, who is reviled by the conservative wing of the Republican party for his moderate centrist political stance and […]