FollowI’m a little disappointed in you, evangelicals. In years past, I could always count on you for prime blog fodder during this season. Your War on Halloween used to be a wonderous (and, let’s face it, hilarious) combination of ignorance and fear that pushed you to outlandish extremes which were then used for evangelism; i.e. […]
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Pat Robertson: Wordsmith
After a month or so of going at Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham pretty hard, I decided to take a break from writing about their shenanigans. That hiatus was still in force this morning when I was going through my emails and found a Google alert about the host of The 700 Club that linked […]
Why, That’s Just Crazy Talk!
Recently, a friend shared an article that quoted part-time pastor and full-time shill for Israel John Hagee as saying that women should be put in jail for calling out, “Oh god” when they’re knocking boots. I have to say I was ecstatic at this gift from comedy heaven; maybe not as thrilled as Jon Stewart […]
You’re Making Us Look Bad, Pat
I think it goes without saying that Christianity isn’t the sanest belief system on the planet. I mean, orthodox belief says that “a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove […]
And, So It Begins
I suppose it was inevitable that some ignorant asses would blame Muslims for Monday’s bombing attack during the Boston Marathon before anyone knows anything and they have. You might think Erik Rush was first, with his “Let’s kill them all” tweet, but Rush says he was being sarcastic. He may have meant it as sarcastic, […]
Defending Pat?
One thing I never thought I’d do is take up for Pat Robertson. I’ve always thought he represents what I hate about the Church: judgmental, narrow-minded and legalistic. On many occasions, he’s said things that are way beyond the pale. He’s accused Haiti of making a pact with the devil, said that liberals back abortion rights because lesbians […]