Ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables.

So apparently al-Qa'eda doesn't want women to buy cucumbers. And apparently, "Al-Qa'eda's very heavy-handed killing of civilians backfired on them. The Sunnis just wouldn't stand for it any more."

I feel forcefully reminded of Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment and Nuggan's Abominations ( Read more... )

So, I went online, looking for religion-related sites. And then I found this ( Read more... )

*is worried*

First thing I did this morning was write a ficlet for cordelia_v, who asked for "a sick, sacriligeous drabble. Bonus points if you can work in any of the following: his history as a member of the Hitler Youth; Ratzinger's pronouncement that all other religions are "deficient"; or a reference to the fact that (more than any other cardinal) he's ( Read more... )

This little ficlet was inspired by a conversation I led with hippediva months ago. I finally got down to writing it. It's... weird, to say the least ( Read more... )