If Pope Smirky doesn't like this cartoon, he can go to his imaginary Hell.


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When most of the Western democratic world are mourning the senseless murder of unarmed cartoonists in Paris, and rallying in huge numbers to reaffirm such basic values as freedom of speech and the right to criticize and resist religious bullying and authoritarianism, Pope Francis I took this moment as the perfect time to blame the victims and ( Read more... )

I just got home from EDS/HP headquarters, where the building shook for several seconds but showed no sign of damage. I'm home now, there's no sign of visible damage in my area, and so far, I see no damage in my house other than stuffed hedgehogs and penguins knocked on the floor. USGS now says the quake was about 5.9 in magnitude, and was felt as ( Read more... )

So Pope Palpadict is now in Britain, meeting with the Queen (God(s) save them all!) and continuing his desperate attempts to apologize for his Church's failure to deal appropriately with child-rapists within its own hierarchy, while protecting the all-important authority of the same backward authoritarian Church...

Pope Benedict XVI, beginning a ( Read more... )

If you teatards want to get pissed about a "mosque at Gound Zero," here's the real deal: a mosque that was on the 17th floor of tower 2, before both towers were destroyed. It survived the first WTC attack in 1993 (and heard no controversy about its presence afterword), but not the second in 2001 ( Read more... )

Okay, I finally saw Angels and Demons, the sequel to The DaVinci Code, in which Symbology Professor Robert Langton (Tom Hanks) is once again called upon to solve a problem for the Vatican using clues that were literally under their noses the whole time, but that they couldn't do anything with because they'd forgotten 90% of their own organizational ( Read more... )

Rereading an old Time magazine article about Pope Benedict XVI's admiration for America (04/14/08), I stumbled on this very interesting quote:

As Roberto Fontolan, the Vatican-savvy spokesman for the lay group Communion and Liberation, puts it, "Let's not talk about dogma, or whether my God is better than your God. Let's talk about reason that we ( Read more... )

Richard Cizik, chief lobbyist for the 30-million mamber National Asociation of Evangelicals, based in Washington, DC, and representing 45,000 churches from 59 denominations, has this to say about John McCain:

Richard Cizik is one of the country’s most powerful and outspoken Christian evangelical leaders. He happens to be a Republican, and he has ( Read more... )

First, the minor complaint: why are our "news" media insistently referring to the FLDS compound in Texas as a "polygamist cult" or "polygamist ranch" or "polygamist compound?" This degenerate community is not just a "polygamist" community -- it's a criminal cartel procuring (and imprisoning for life) underage girls as sex-slaves and brood-mares ( Read more... )

Today is the 40th anniversiary of Dr. Martin Luther King's supreme sacrifice for his vision of a more just America. I'm guessing everyone else will be commemorating King's achievements by citing quotes and video-clips from his more famous speeches; so I'll do my bit by citing this less-famous paper that King completed in 1950:

The Influence of ( Read more... )