Now more than ever, science needs defending, so thank God for Bill Nye, who’ll take time out of his busy Science Guy schedule to publicly debate Ken Ham, founder of Kentucky’s Creation museum, on the subject of evolution vs. creationism. As Ken Ham writes on his website: Most of you will recall Mr. Nye as […]
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Fox News: The Pope Doesn’t Know Anything About Economics
The Pope doesn’t know anything about economics, argues a Fox News columnist, so Pope Francis really should shut his mouth about youth unemployment or income inequality. Currently digging through the columnist’s archives to see if he objected to the previous pope commenting on abortion, birth control, adoption, and gay sex—also not areas of expertise for […]
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For the Bible Tells Me So
Christian Nightmares posted this disturbing video of politicians using the Bible to argue against climate change. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. (Sob!)
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Teabagger Says “Jesus Christ Is Weeping in Heaven” Because Pope Francis Doesn’t Love Capitalism
Raw Story’s Travis Gettys says that prominent Virginia teabagger Jonathon Moseley took issue with Pope Francis’s claims that unfettered capitalism is hurting the world. Moseley wrote an essay titled “Jesus Christ is a capitalist” that tries to take the Pope on using scripture. Moseley, a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney, supports his claim with […]
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The War on Jesus: American Atheists Want the IRS to Stop Giving Breaks to Churches
A case that is “currently before the United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky”: On December 12, 2012, American Atheists and two co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky demanding that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stop giving preferential treatment to churches and religious organizations via the […]
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Today in Gloriously TERRIBLE: The Heaven is for Real Trailer
Really bad news, guys! HEAVEN IS FOR REAL! Or at least this incredibly terrible/awesome trailer for the upcoming Easter movie Heaven is for Real says it is! Poor Greg Kinnear plays the dad, and someone who looks exactly like that gal from Little House on the Prairie plays the mom, and they have a son […]
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Christian Couple Stiffs Young Gay Waiter and Call Him a Faggot—Because, You Know, God Is Love and Shit
Here’s the note that a pair of pious bigots left in place of a tip for their twenty-year-old waiter: “Thank you for your service, it was excellent. That being said, we cannot in good conscience tip you, for your homosexual lifestyle is an affront to GOD. Fags do not share in the wealth of GOD, […]
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I Blame Jesus! (For the Debt-Ceiling Crisis)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) says that the end is nigh! “This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is […]
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Today in Asking the Barber If You Need a Haircut
A devout Christian woman who’s paid tithes all her life is now facing mounting medical bills. She should maybe use her would-be tithe funds to pay her medical bills? Guess what the zillionaire televangelist tells her. Thank you, forever, Right Wing Watch.
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Rick Santorum Has Gone and Made Himself a Big-time Movie Producer
Lookee here, Hollywood: Rick Santorum has become CEO of a Christian film production company called EchoLight. And according to The Dissolve’s Vadim Rizov, Santorum’s got some big plans: “I’d like to see Dallas and Fort Worth be to faith and family entertainment what Nashville is to music,” Santorum told [The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary] Darling. […]
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Popewatch: The New One Is Still Better Than the Old One, but the Old One Was a Nazi
1. As a rebuttal to all the hoopla over Pope Francis’s suggestion that the Catholic Church should spend a little less time obsessing over gays and abortion last week, Tim Stanley at the Telegraph points out the case of a former priest from Melbourne named Greg Reynolds who “appears to have been both defrocked and […]
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Six (Actually Eight) Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Send Your Daughter to College
It takes this crazy Catholic blogger thousands and thousands of words to say, essentially, “edumacation fer girls gets in the way of the whole barefoot-and-pregnant thing.” Because, you see, a college-educated woman is going to get a job of her own and a woman with her own job is less dependent on her man and […]