Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2009
The governor of the Vatican visited CERN recently to reassure everyone that the Catholic Church “supports” “science.” In fact, according to his speech, the Church has always supported science. USA Today seems to have reproduced his quote, but for some reason they left out all of the footnotes, which I have carefully reconstructed below: “The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2009
I have little patience for promoters of secular causes who resort to religious appeals. I’m happy that you’re collecting pledges to stop breast cancer, but I don’t need a speech about how Jesus would have cured the Cancer-Sufferer if only the cave-people of his era had known what cancer was. It’s fine if you want [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2009
Is it June 5 already? That means it’s a triple religious holiday! And you can celebrate all three. 1. First, for Cambodian Buddhists, it’s National Donut Day. Grab yourself a dozen glazed and pour yourself a Pol Pot of coffee and meditate. 2. Next, for Gaia-worshippers, today is World Environment Day, which is their fourth-holiest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2009
The Catholic Church is warning its parishioners that Confession is not the same thing as psychiatry. Now, there wouldn’t be confusion if there weren’t similarities. Both involve lots of Latin buzzwords. Both are very unpopular with Scientologists. Both require you to tell your secrets to some weirdo in a dark room. And both present the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2009
The Bible: free 2 GB flash drive: $7.99 2 GB flash drive with the Bible on it: $39.95 Getting rich by selling overpriced junk to true believers: Priceless. I’m in the wrong business.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 2nd, 2009
Nothing, if you believe the RIAA-scripted talking points regurgitated by our friends at Everyday Christian: Under current copyright legislation, downloading music for free is definitely theft under letter of the law. Although I really shouldn’t expect someone writing on a site called “Everyday Christian” to be able to accurately describe the world, I can’t resist [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2009
Tragedy in (Wichita / Ottawa / Nepal / Israel), where (an anti-abortion activist / a devout Muslim / Hindu extremists / Ultra-Orthodox Jews) (murdered a doctor / murdered his sister and her lover / blew up a Catholic Church / beat up some missionaries) in order to (stop him from performing abortions / restore honor [...]
