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Sen. James Inhofe Called “Ridiculous”
12.21.2009
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Is Sen. Jim Inhofe jealous of Sarah Palin’s starring role as pied piper to the idiot wing of the Republican party, or is he perhaps trying to position himself as a potential running mate for her in 2012? It’s hard to tell what the silliest Senator from Oklahoma was thinking, or if he’s really capable of much thinking at all. Witness what the witless Republican had waiting for him when he showed up in Copenhagen with his “message” of a Hollywood conspiracy that’s behind global warming:

Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.21.2009
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Lost city of Atlantis discovered?
12.17.2009
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File this one under: Maybe. First off, it strikes me as just a little suspicious that the “scientists” refuse to identify themselves. Most in the scientific field would be calling a press conference and looking for Hollywood agents, so take this news with a grain of salt. Didn’t stop the Daily Mail from publishing it as news, though and maybe it is, time will tell (or else we’ll never hear of it again…):

A group of ‘undersea archaeologists’ have become the latest to claim they have uncovered the lost city of Atlantis. The scientists - who have refused to identify themselves - have released a series of images taken beneath the Caribbean.

They insist the snaps show what appear to be the ruins of a city that could pre-date Egypt’s pyramids, which appeared after 2600BC. They even told a French newspaper that one of the structures appears to be a pyramid.

Now the anonymous group wants to raise funds to explore the secret location where the images were taken.They would not reveal the exact location, however, saying only that it was somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.

The claims have raised eyebrows on the internet, though skeptics refrained from debunking them entirely - just in case.

The legend of Atlantis, a city of astonishing wealth, knowledge and power that sank beneath the ocean waves, has fascinated millions. Time and time again hopes have been raised that the lost city has been found - only for those hopes to be dashed against the evidence (or lack thereof).

Its location—or at least the source of the legend—remained a tantalising mystery. In 1997, Russian scientists claimed to have found Atlantis 100 miles off Land’s End. In 2000 a ruined town was found under 300ft of water off the north coast of Turkey in the Black Sea. The area is thought to have been swamped by a great flood around 5000BC, possibly the floods referred to in the Old Testament.

In 2004 an American architect used sonar to reveal man-made walls a mile deep in the Mediterranean between Cyprus and Syria. In 2007 Swedish researchers claimed the city lay on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was submerged in the Bronze Age. And as recently as February of this year, what appeared to be grid-like lines that resembled city streets were spotted on Google Earth - in the ocean off the coast of Africa.

Sadly Google itself quickly debunked the suggestion, explaining that the lines were left by a boat as it collected data for the application. ‘Bathymetric (sea-floor) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor,’ a spokesman said. ‘The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.’

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.17.2009
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Mary And Joseph: Not So Morning Glorious
12.17.2009
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The above church billboard showing Joesph and the Virgin Mary in bed after having disappointing sex (or maybe they’re unable to consummate the good kind), is whipping up a shitstorm among Christians in New Zealand:

The large poster depicts a dejected-looking Joseph lying next to Mary, whose eyes are turned heavenwards, under the words: “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow.”  Both figures, painted in classical fresco style, appear to be naked.  Within hours of the billboard being erected outside the Anglican church of St Matthew’s in the City, in central Auckland, it had been attacked by a man who clambered on to the roof of his car to smear brown paint over it.  As a result it was almost obliterated and the church, which describes itself as “progressive,” is seeking a replacement.

Archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story “and that somehow this male God impregnated Mary.”  “What we’re trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about,” he said.

“We actually think God is about the power of love as shown in Jesus, which is something quite different than a literal man up in the sky.”  He said the church had asked an advertising agency to come up with ideas for the poster and the one they had chosen was not the most radical.  “One of the options we turned down had a sperm coming down with the words ‘Joy to the World,’” he said.

Christians Outraged By Poster Showing Mary And Joseph After Sex

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.17.2009
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Second-grader suspended over drawing of Jesus
12.16.2009
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imageA Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.16.2009
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Santa Takes the Christ Out of Christmas
12.10.2009
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Here’s a bizarre Christmas card guaranteed to bring holiday cheer this season from Etsy seller Dark Vomit. Each card measures 8 1/2 inches tall and comes in a set of five for $15.00.
 
Jesus Christ and Santa Claus Christmas Card print set

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.10.2009
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Ted Haggard: Back In The Saddle
12.07.2009
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While crystal meth and male prostitutes might have sent him into exile, disgraced former preacher Ted Haggard is now mounting his return as a spokesman for God.  This time, though, rather than lavish cathedrals, his flock will have to settle for the barn beside his house:

Last month, Haggard—who declined to be interviewed—opened his home for a prayer meeting.  He expected a dozen people.  More than 100 came, and the Haggards moved the furniture out of the living room to make space.  A week later, he swept out his barn and rented 75 chairs.  When they were filled, people stood against the back walls.

Many were former or current members of his old church who called him Pastor Ted.  They said they had missed him, that he was born to preach—not to sell insurance as he had when he first returned here.  They said they had forgiven what they and Haggard regarded as his sins.  If Haggard can make a comeback, it will be because many evangelical Christians find his story appealing, said Michael Hamilton, an associate history professor at Seattle Pacific University who studies evangelicalism.  “Sin, sorrow, repentance, conversion and trying to live out your new faith—that’s the standard evangelical way to look at one’s life,” he said.

But whether Haggard can achieve his previous success is questionable, said Larry Eskridge, associate director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College in Illinois.  One sticking point could be that Haggard reportedly did not complete a church-mandated “restoration process.”  New Life officials have said Haggard quit the process in early 2008; he maintains that the church ended the process and that he did not ask to be released from the obligation.

“The larger question is the inability to put himself under someone else’s authority and whether it shows true repentance,” Eskridge said.  Another issue is the nature of the scandal itself.”  Even though evangelical theology doesn’t make distinctions between sins,” Hamilton said, “homosexuality is a hard one for evangelicals to cope with.”

To watch Alexandra Pelosi‘s Trials of Ted Haggard in its entirety, click here.

 
Ted Haggard Returns To The Pulpit In Colorado

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.07.2009
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Fry and Hitchens Slam the Church
12.02.2009
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Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry absolutely scathingly slammed the sins of the Church at the Intelligence?Ǭ? talks. See resources below.

Here’s a good discussion thread about the talk.

And here’s the whole conference, via Richard Dawkins.

(Previously on Dangerous Minds: Canonizing Sinead O’Connor, Catholic Church Covered up Child Sexual Abuse for 30 Years.)

 

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.02.2009
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Bulgarians Befriend Betelgeuse
11.27.2009
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Bulgaria has, apparently, contacted aliens. Not suprisingly, no reaction from the world at large. Metro.co.uk reports:

Bulgarian researchers are analysing pictograms contained in 150 crop circles which have appeared around the globe in the past year. And the researchers say they have already posed the extra-terrestrials 30 questions, one of which might have been: ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.27.2009
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Catholic Church Covered up Child Sexual Abuse for 30 Years
11.27.2009
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An Irish Church investigation has come to absolutely damning findings that the Church actively covered up institutionalized sexual abuse for thirty years. Via the Irish Times:

The Commission of Investigation into Dublin?

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.27.2009
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The Jesus Diet
11.23.2009
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Jesus will let you eat anything you want as long as you believe.

From Mail Online:

But there’s a new diet trend which claims dizzyingly high success rates, promises painless life-long commitment and allows dieters to eat anything they want.

Faith-based diets take the principles of Christianity and apply them to our overwhelming craving for chocolate, chips and cheese.
Advocates say dieters learn to fill the spiritual hole inside themselves with something more powerful than saturated fats.

The basic principle common to the U.S. programmes Christian Weigh Down and Thin Within (‘Helps you grow in faith while shrinking your waistline’), and the British equivalent Fit For Life Forever, is that dieters need to identify the deeper reasons why they over-eat, before they can hope to lose weight and keep it off permanently.

The trend began in America in the Eighties, but it’s finally taking hold here, with Christian weight-loss groups springing up, and dramatically increased sales of ‘spiritual dieting’ books such as What Would Jesus Eat?, Hallelujah Diet and The God Diet.

Read more of Good Lord! It’s the Jesus diet: How more people are turning to religion to help them lose weight

 

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.23.2009
12:14 pm
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