Elie Wiesel believes that Jerusalem should belong to the Jews because it's mentioned 600 times in Jewish scripture and never in the Koran. Well, it's mentioned about 770 times in the Christian Bible (792 in NIV according to Bible Gateway, 789 from Biblos.com, 764 in KJV and 785 in NIV according to biblica, 767 in 21st C KJV from Bible Gateway, etc ( Read more... )

I have a plot for the next Dan Brown novel. Mother Teresa was secretly a Muslim, and a Vatican conspiracy found out and desperately tried to put a stop to her. Consider the evidence: (1) Teresa was born in Albania, a predominantly Muslim country. (2) She performed her ministry in Kolkata, a city containing 3 million Muslims that's close to the ( Read more... )

Wikipedia fun and links:

Cadaver Synod. The postumous trial of Pope Formosus by his successor Stephen VI in 897. Formosus was found guilty, his benediction fingers were cut off, he was reburied then disinterred and thrown in the Tiber. Pope Stephen was deposed by a mob, jailed, and killed in prison, and his predecessor was reburied with pomp.

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This was linked on Graham Linehan's blog and is teh dog's bollocks. The Bike King and the Ten Commandments movie trailer.

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Michael Wood explains how modern Hollywood action films are all secretly weepies, about sad, grief-stricken men blowing stuff up. Unless they star Clive Owen. Who is incapable of grief.

Hitler in a pair of gaiters and a ( Read more... )

I saw this advert on the Guardian website this morning, next to a story about a rightwing Dutch anti-Islamic politician.


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Roundup of the week's news
(1) The pope says something incoherent about sex/gender. Apparently he needs to defend heterosexuality, but not to the extent of having sex with a girl.
(2) Patrick Wolf is trying to raise £100,000 from fans to finance the release of his new album, which he's already recorded.
(3) Researchers find headbanging may cause ( Read more... )

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Rate My Fundamentalist, kind of - amusing quotes by creationists and other misguided religious people:Gravity: Doesn't exist. If items of mass had any impact of others, then mountains should have people orbiting them. Or the space shuttle in space should have the astronauts orbiting it. Of course, that's just the tip of the gravity myth. Think ( Read more... )