religion

If you are wondering about our recent coverage of Phelps et al. it does not represent a change of direction – it is merely a reflection that right-wing Christianity’s most lunatic fringe is increasingly finding targets in popular culture; on the 28th of July the target of their hate-filled...

Parents whose children attended a sex education class at Shenandoah High School, Iowa have taken issue with an instructor’s usage of stuffed toys to simulate sex acts in front of a group of eighth graders. A mother of one of the children, Colleen Dostal, told Fox News Radio: It...

The “King of Kings” statue was a 62-foot colossus that sat outside the evangelical Solid Rock Church in the town of Monroe in southwest Ohio. The upraised arms led people to nickname the landmark “Touchdown Jesus” because of the similarity to the hand signal that used when a footballer...

Danish police are urging the Vatican to take action over a Dutch nun suspected to be involved in the death of one of her fellow sisters. The nun in question, one Mother Theresa Brenninkmeijer, is suspected to have covered up the death of an elderly sister who succumbed to...

When it comes to the world’s recent earthquakes, it seems that there are two conspiracy theories in circulation: some folks (and Jesse Ventura) propose that a massive array of antennae in the Alaskan wilderness is the cause of all our shaking, a cleric in Iran, on the other hand,...

A suicidal man was left feeling so angry that he lost the will to kill himself after the priest at the suicide helpline that he called fell asleep. When the 44-year-old man called emergency services at 2am on Friday reporting to be feeling “psychologically unstable”, he call was forwarded...

It’s Valentine’s Day. In most countries that means love is in the air, but for folks living in Saudi Arabia it means it is time to put those emotions in check and to make sure that they don’t do anything that could be perceived as being romantic – lest...

A family of North Carolinian evangelists is planning to set up a mission in Australia’s northern city of Darwin. The Gibbs family is heading to the “unreached city” on account of the high rates of drinking and sexually transmitted diseases. From the Gibb’s family site: As we continue to...

I’d like to think that this was all a part of an expensive, well-organized prank – but you never know. If it is a prank, a person or people would have had to stock up on communion products and lube, the same as if it is not a prank,...