Archive for the 'World Events' Category

“The Defense calls the The Holy Ghost…”

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Jesus Christ is on trial in Italy. You heard it here first (unless you already heard it somewhere else).
Once upon a time, Luigi Cascioli studied to be a Catholic priest. Luckily, he figured out the scam somewhere along the way and became a militant atheist. This led to him writing a book […]

Indiana: The South Carolina of the Midwest

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Indiana has been displaying an inordinate amount of religious craziness given its latitude. I just read an article called “Puritan Politics” on nuvo.net. The Christian right is up to its elbows in the state government, and all heaven is breaking loose.
To put it briefly, if you’re gay, and you live in […]

Sometimes Killers Lie

Monday, October 10th, 2005

I have a plan that will solve the problem of Muslim fundamentalist terrorism. All we have to do is point out to captured terrorists the passages in the Quran that tell them to be nice to people. Then we’ll get them to apologize and promise never to do it again. If they […]

State of the World

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

President George W. Bush says that the U.S. has been blessed by the contributions of people of many different faiths. “Our Muslim citizens,” he says, “have helped make our nation a stronger and more hopeful place through their faith, generosity, and compassion” [source]

Bush said al Qaeda-linked terrorists are seeking to establish a “radical Islamic empire […]

Theocracy Watch: Buddhist Fundamentalists to Hijack Island

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Sri Lanka may now be an officially Buddhist nation.
On October 4, the Sri Lankan Parliament was due to vote on the proposed 19th amendment to their constitution. This piece of legislation, which was ruled unconstitutional by Sri Lanka’s supreme court last year, was put forward for another hearing by the Jathika Hela Urumaya party […]