Missouri just passed a law about the "right to pray" in order to "protect" the 80% Christian majority from those nasty heathens oppressing them with their insistence on equality... This amendment is for conservative Christians who are offended that they might have to acknowledge that not everyone in the world is Christian.

Here is a quiz from the Pew Center about religious knowledge. (Kevin and I each scored 14/15, missing the same one.) I am greatly amused by the results that show that the people who know the most about religion want the least to do with it.

Hello, Malaysia? Whether you call it God or Allah or Buggeryboo, if there IS a Supreme Being, I can't see It being bloodthirsty enough for you to torch churches over the word you use to describe It. Morons!

Describing the sound of a spoke breaking led me to remember John Shelby Spong, whose theses of a New Reformation are, to use his word, "threatening."

( Noodly goodness )

And I thought Catholic ritual was weird. No wonder the Mormons call the rest of us (even the Jews) "Gentiles."

I went to this site after Googling "Mormon Kansas City Independence" to test my memory ( Read more... )

you must have heard by now of the Pastafarians, true believers in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Lo, it has been revealed to babysasquatch by the Angel Macaroni: Ye Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster of Latter-day Saints, hie ye to your wagons and to the Great Sauce Lake....

The Church tell us sex is bad.

Sex is used to sell every product in the American market from toothpicks to tampons.

We see the sexy ad and are trained to feel guilty for feeling sexy.

We transmute our guilt by buying the product.