Wednesday, Dan showed you the awkward footage that ensued when CNN news-idiot Wolf Blitzer accidentally asked an atheist if she thanked the Lord for delivering her from the tornado. Today, Christian Nightmares notices that Glenn Beck thinks the whole scenario smacks of a conspiracy. He begins, “I really like Wolf Blitzer, and I think he’s […]
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Scientology’s Shiny New Church/Giftshop
If you haven’t noticed, the Scientologists have a brand new storefront in downtown Portland and it’s awesome. If you’d like to watch promotional DVDs while feeling like the men in suits who watch your every move might murder you, then this is definitely the place for you. The Portland branch of the Church of Scientology—from […]
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The Pope Doesn’t Understand the Point of Atheists
Here’s something that Pope Francis said yesterday: The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of God of the first class! Um, gee. Thanks, I guess? But maybe […]
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There Are No Atheists In Foxholes
But there atheists in Moore, Oklahoma: Says BoingBoing: “This is CNN.”
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Portland’s Scientology Party a Rousing Success, According to PhotoShop
via Head over to Gizmodo for the heads up on how Scientology’s PR department made Saturday’s big, secretive event look like a massive success—with the help of computer magic! Poorly used computer magic! Meanwhile, Mercury pal Tim Nelson checked out the scene on Saturday. His tweets are worth a read. I hope he eventually got […]
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SCIENTOLOGY ALERT! Portland’s Scientologists are Doing… Something?
Dirk VanderHart Alas, what exactly that something is? We aren’t sure! The stretch of SW Third in front of the organization’s newly expanded and rennovated offices—which happen to be right by the Mercury‘s offices—is largely blocked off. Several Klieg lights, turned on and bright even in the middle of the afternoon, are set up on […]
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Let’s Get the Catholics’ Take on the New David Bowie Video!
David Bowie’s new video, directed by Floria Sigismondi and starring Gary Oldman, contains some of my very favorite things (these being Marion Cotillard, booze, sex, shame, and Bowie himself, among other things). But making sense of all this nutzoid religious imagery is easier said than done. Let’s turn to the Catholic League’s take—they should be […]
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Oregon House Votes for Daily Pledge of Allegiance
The Oregon House Representatives this morning said okay to a bill that requires all schools in the state to allow time—every day—for the Pledge of Allegiance. HB 3014 requires all Oregon classrooms, including public charter schools “to provide time for students to salute flag once daily during school hours.” School districts would also have to […]
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Cardinal Dolan to Gay Couples: “You’re Entitled to Friendship.”
We’re not entitled to romantic love, we’re not entitled to sex, we’re not entitled to equal treatment under the law. But we are entitled to friendship: Once again: marriage isn’t “one man, one woman, forever, to bring about new life” if you’re straight. Straight people don’t have to marry to have children, they don’t have […]
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Good Christian Michele Bachmann Wants to Stop Obamacare from Literally Killing Kids
Crooks and Liars says that self-identified “believer in Christ” Michele Bachmann wants to keep fighting Obamacare. Why? For the children, of course! “The American people, especially vulnerable women, vulnerable children, vulnerable senior citizens, now get to pay more and get less,” Bachmann opined. “That’s why we’re here because we’re saying let’s repeal this failure before […]
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Child Rape, Inc.
Hate to spoil the new pope’s coming-out party—and it was such a lovely party—but there’s this: The Catholic Diocese of Joliet will release as part of a lawsuit settlement more than 7,000 internal documents that reportedly show every bishop since the 1950s has been aware of diocese priests sexually abusing children. The documents include personnel […]