It Was All Satan’s Fault!
As if the pathetic Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean (about whom I’ve blogged a couple times already), weren’t already a caricature of everything that’s wrong with fundamentalist Christianity in the...
View ArticlePat Robertson, Hyperreligious Cretin
Televangelist Pat Robertson has said a lot of terrible, even reprehensible things over the years. I’ve already covered a couple of them. At times I wonder if he could ever top some of the stuff he’s...
View ArticleIrish Clergy Blame The Children And The Devil!
Several times already I’ve blogged about the scandal of abuse of children in the care of the Catholic Church in Ireland, which has been investigated and is considerably worse than anyone had imagined....
View ArticleTV Report Incites Anti-Muslim Vandalism
Here we have yet another journalism FAIL. WTVF-5 in Nashville teased a report that supposedly would link a local Muslim group with terrorism … then finally aired it, and the result was that there was...
View ArticleChief Exorcist Claims Devil Is In Vatican
A high-ranking Roman Catholic exorcist claims that the Devil is alive and well in the Vatican, and that recent scandals result from it. The (UK) Times reports on this apparent revelation (WebCite...
View ArticleNow Pastor Wants God To Kill 219 Congressmen
This past summer I blogged about the creepy but popular southern California preacher Wiley Drake praying for God to kill Barack Obama. With the passage of healthcare reform, he’s added to his list of...
View ArticleSatanists Gather In Oklahoma, And Christians Protest
In the state which has become the latest battleground in the Religious Right’s ongoing effort to remake the country into a fierce Christian theocracy — as I’ve blogged a number of times already — a...
View ArticleSantorum Claimed In 2008 That Satan Is Taking Over U.S.
Rick Santorum is an agnostic blogger’s dream. Almost daily the guy trots out some insipid, moronic Christofascist comment or other. Among other things, he claims to be an expert on theology, and you...
View ArticleChristofascist Literally Demonizes Progressives
One of the things religious fundamentalists like to do, is conflate all their opponents into one huge mass of people, groups and things that are trying to wipe them out completely. I’d remarked on how...
View ArticleExorcists Meet In Poland To Deal With The Threat Of … Madonna?
A civil war raging in Syria. The Eurozone crisis causing financial chaos. US spies rummaging through Europeans’ private lives. Youth unemployment all through the continent. One would think Europe has a...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Loves Illogic And Fallacy
By now most of my regular readers have heard about Antonin Scalia’s New York Magazine interview. The main news out of it has been that Scalia believes Satan is a “real person.” I hadn’t commented on...
View ArticleR.C. Bishop Plans To Exorcise Gay Marriage From His State
Illinois will soon permit gay marriage (WebCite cached article). And Thomas Paprocki, bishop of that state’s capital, is not happy about it. He’s so angry, in fact, that — as CNN’s Belief blog reports...
View ArticleParanormalists Cause Havoc Around “Portal To Hell” In Ohio
As I’ve said so many times, the ubiquity of “ghost hunting” shows on television has caused the numbers of “paranormal investigators” in the US to proliferate ridiculously. Anyone can now grab a light...
View ArticleChurch Sign Says Satan Demanded “Equal Rights”
Christians in the US continue to believe themselves a persecuted minority, in spite of the fact that they’re anything but. The relentless expansion of gay marriage has done more than almost anything...
View ArticleAbortions Powered By Satanic Magick?
This is one of those stories so ridiculous, I considered not posting about it. But … since this follows a common Christianist model (i.e. a Christian claiming to have converted from some profane or...
View ArticleWas Halloween Cancelled In Milford CT Public Schools?
Halloween is one of those odd things that most Americans don’t think much about, but a small number obsess over. It’s become a vast economic boon, being one of the most profitable retail holidays. It’s...
View ArticleIs Hillary Clinton a Satan Worshipper?
I’ve already blogged a time or two about some of the asinine things retired neurosurgeon — and militant Christianist — Dr Ben Carson has said. The guy clearly is brilliant enough to have had a...
View ArticleWashington is Run by Witches and “Demonic Forces”
Most of my readers have never been part of fundamentalist Christianity. As such, they’re unaware of fundies’ very strange — and supernaturally-saturated — worldview. As a former fundie myself, I’m...
View ArticleIt Was All Satan’s Fault!
As if the pathetic Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean (about whom I’ve blogged a couple times already), weren’t already a caricature of everything that’s wrong with fundamentalist Christianity in the...
View ArticlePat Robertson, Hyperreligious Cretin
Televangelist Pat Robertson has said a lot of terrible, even reprehensible things over the years. I’ve already covered a couple of them. At times I wonder if he could ever top some of the stuff he’s...
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