Recent Praying to the Porcelain God

• A Simple Question

  If we can fork over $85 billion to AIG, pony up as much as $700 billion to rescue the jerks who caused all this mess in the markets in the first place, and spend who knows how many 100s of billions of dollars to basically buy FannieMae and FreddieMac (not to mention the hundreds of [...]

  September 20th, 2008

• People Are Stupid – Part 3: Todd Bentley and the Lakeland Church Revival

  The idea that anyone would think that God told them to kick a man who has colon cancer is actually beyond stupid, and yet hundreds and thousands of people involved in the “revival” taking place at the Lakeland Church in Florida seem to have no problem with this idea at all.  In fact, they have [...]

  July 1st, 2008

• People Are Stupid, Part 2: Obama the Antichrist

  There are times when I am frankly amazed at how stupid some people can be, and this is especially the case when one mixes fundamentalist and literalistic Christianity with politics.  It seems that we now have a new candidate for the position of Antichrist, and his name is Obama.
  I don’t remember how I stumbled upon [...]

  May 5th, 2008

• Two Interesting Quotes

  While perusing The Christian Century today in the Union County (Lewisburg, PA) Public Library, I came across two quotes that struck a nerve in my old liberal self.  The first is from Ellen Goodman (The Boston Globe March 21, 2008) and concerns our current fiscal and economic crisis.  While the Federal Government refuses to "bail [...]

  April 17th, 2008

• Tacky Religious Products

  In a blog post, “20 Tacky Religious Products Guaranteed to Anger God,” on cracked.com, written by Ian Fortey, Fortney writes,
  For as long as there has been religion, there’s been someone hawking religious crap to scam a buck off the devout. But once the market becomes saturated with tasteful silver crosses and Star of David pendants, [...]

  February 22nd, 2008