Got to Get Me a Piece of This Racket

This sounds like a guaranteed money making racket business!
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.
Prayer … as a medical expense! Expense, as in cost or charge. Yep, wave your hands [...]

Halloween Aversion

Halloween is undoubtedly my favorite holiday. It just has an attitude about it that other holidays could only hope to have. For many Fundamentalist Christians, however, Halloween is seen as an unholy celebration of all that is evil. This fear of Halloween is known as Samhainophobia, and it isn’t just a trivial matter to them; [...]

Top Scientologist Refuses to Answer Xenu Question

A short video outlining the bizarre Xenu story attributed to the Church of Scientology.

This story is very popular on the internet and has been featured on South Park. Is this true? Is the Xenu story a tenet of Scientology? I, for one, would love to know. Wouldn’t it be great if [...]

Pro-Lifers To Burn Effigies on Halloween

In yet another return to the middle ages show of pure unbridled emotion, an anti-abortion activist is burning images of House and Senate leaders on Halloween.
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a “Burn in [...]

Baby Einstein … not so much

According to this article:
the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses.
They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect.
So, it turns out that turning on [...]

35 Is The Holy Highway

Just when you thought Christians couldn’t get any stranger, a Christian Movement has come to the conclusion that Highway 35 is the Holy Highway.
A growing number of evangelical Christians around the world are convinced that Interstate 35 is a holy highway. The movement, which began in Texas where the interstate begins, has some strong local [...]

Superstious Stare At Sun To See God

A group of superstitious Irish, chose October 12th to stare at the sun until they started to see things. They apparently expected to see a manifestation of a female character in a two thousand year old Jewish myth. Their experiences differed though, if this turns out to be like other sun staring events, [...]

Round Round, Get Around, She Gets Around

Jesus never really bothered extending his travels to teach his message anyplace outside of walking distance of Galilee, (unless you’re Morman, of course). But, his mother is making up for that. She’s just turned up in Samoa.
A week after Samoans prayed en masse for a safe switch to driving on the left, a vision of [...]

Rabbis in Airplanes “Fight” the Swine Flu

Well, when swine flu magically disappears later today, you’ll know who to thank. Rabbis in airplanes.
“A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu.”
Yep, you read that right. A group of rabbis, like holy super heroes, have [...]

Did George Bush Try to Start Armageddon?

According to this article at secularhumanism.org, Jacques Chirac has come clean that George W Bush’s principle motivator for war in Iraq was fulfillment of the Biblical concept of the Apocalypse. It would explain a lot, the Bush administration did seem to ignore a lot of detractors prior to the war; they did seem to have [...]