So ABC news has this story, about a Catholic priest refusing to give communion to a gay bereaver at her mother's funeral, but oh wait it gets better worse, he leaves while she reads her eulogy, and refuses to attend the burial, asking a substitute priest to take over..

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Lent is a penitential season for the Church. It's supposed to be a time for prayers acknowledging one's failings, accepting one's own responsibility in how shit is heading in the wrong direction, and turning actively toward God to try to fix it ( Read more... )

(16) Just then Mitt Romney came up to Jesus and said, “Rabbi, what good deed should I do to earn eternal life?”

(17) and Jesus didst snark, saying to him, “What am I, God's page boy? Go ask God if you really don't know how to be good. But since you came all this way to ask, I'll put on my Teacher Voice and say that if you want to get into that ( Read more... )

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In today's installment of How To Be A Christian, we will again strive for enlightenment by examining how Not to be one ( Read more... )

5...Jesus came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, and, tired as he was from the journey, sat down on the curb. It was severiously hot out.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to grab a tasty tasty drink, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a lemonade? 8My boys are grabbing us all some take-out falafel ..."
9 The Samaritan woman said to Him, “You sure I ( Read more... )

21 “Everybody can quote: ‘thou shalt not murder; or God will be pissed.’ Yes. You're very smaaht. Now shaddup. 22 Because I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother pisses off God; whoever insults his brother oughtta be jailed; and whoever says, ‘You IDIOT!’ will burn in the hell of fire. 23 So, you want to make things all better ( Read more... )

First Kings, Chapter 3 Verses 16-25

(16) One day two prostitutes came to King Solomon, (17) and one of them said:

"Your Majesty, this hooker and I live in the same house. Not long ago my baby was born at home, (18) and three days later her baby was born. Nobody else was there with us. (19) One night while we were all asleep, she rolled over on ( Read more... )

(1) Jesus, feeling pretty good after his baptism, ducked the groupies and split to the middle of nowhere, (2) where for 40 days he was tempted by the devil.

Jesus ate nothing during those days, and near the end of them he was starvin' like Marvin. (3) The devil said to Jesus, "Hungry much? No worries. If you are *really* the Son of God, tell ( Read more... )

Luke 6:29-35 ( Read more... )