Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
From the stupid to the *really* stupid.
Some quick hits, absurd-religion-news style:
Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are 'unnatural creatures'
The gnomes, along with plastic flowers and other decorations such as teddy bears, have been called "inappropriate" and tacky by the Diocese of Bath and Wells.* * *
A spokesman for the Diocese of Bath and Wells said: "There is no such thing as a real gnome so why should we have such unnatural creatures in churchyards?"
Yo, Mr. Spokesman: Show me a 'real' cherub or angel, OK?
Cardinal at CUA: Obama is ‘Aggressive, Disruptive and Apocalyptic’
His Eminence James Francis Cardinal Stafford criticized President-elect Barack Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,“ and said he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform,” Thursday night in Keane Auditorium during his lecture “Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II: Being True in Body and Soul.“
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“For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden,” Stafford said, comparing America’s future with Obama as president to Jesus’ agony in the garden. “On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake.”
Don't worry, it gets worse from there.
And because of this kind of crap, Newsweek asks:
On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as "the eBay of prophecy," the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world. Already Barack Obama had drawn the attention of apocalypse watchers after an anonymous e-mail circulated among conservative Christians in October implying that he was the Antichrist. Former "Saturday Night Live" ingénue Victoria Jackson fueled the fire when, according to news reports, she wrote on her Web site that Obama "bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ." Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect's home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). "It is very eerie, and I take it for a sign as to who he really is," wrote one of Strandberg's correspondents.
*sigh* Got a favorite stupid religious headline from the news?
Jim Downey
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Gargoyles on the parapets, walls and ledges...
This is moronic...
Er, so why do gargoyles decorate so many Christian churches?
Any child.......
Sleeping child. Someone told me that it is only because they look so sweet and angelic when sleeping that you can forgive them for all the deviltry they did during the day.
:)
The Antichrist Thing
Yeah, that Obama Antichrist thing... I take it on here.
Interesting that these "lottery 666" idiots never bother to notice that the number has come up 5 times during the course 0f 2008 in the same Illinois lottery, including once on July 5 of this year. If it coming up the day after Election Day is a sign that Obama is the Antichrist, does it coming up the day after Indpendence Day mean that America is the Antichrist?
The probability of any three-number combination coming up is 1 in 1000. More significantly, though, on the same day that 666 came up, the numbers 779 were drawn not once but twice, the probability of which is much, much smaller. No attempt is made, of course, to divine some significance from that fact, because those numbers don't have a built-in superstitious meaning like 666 does.
And besides . . .
. . . the *real* Number of the Beast is 616, anyway. But of course, you can't tell the Fundies anything.
Jim Downey
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Religious headlines
Does this include the "face of Jesus on a piece of toast / in the bathroom mildew" variety?
This one's a couple years
This one's a couple years old, but it still cracks me up. From WingNut Daily, Soy is making kids 'gay'. And if that's not good enough, this particular link is just the first of six parts. O_o