Big Turbans

Everyone knows that Sikhs wear turbans. But the size of the more ceremonial ones had escaped me.

Thanks to Deborah Newton.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 16, 2010 - Comments (5)
Category: Religion, Reader Recommendation, Headgear

Know The Enemy

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 03, 2010 - Comments (13)
Category: Public Humiliation, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Religion, Self-help Schemes, Urban Life, Psychology

Christian Pirate Rap

Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 24, 2010 - Comments (10)
Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Religion

Grade A Exegesis

Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 10, 2010 - Comments (6)
Category: Movies, Religion, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, Cars

The Vatican, Without Sin, Casts The First Stone

The year is 1482. The Vatican has just released a statement that reads, "ordaining women into the priesthood was a sin on par with pedophilia." Nobody blinks and life goes on... oh, gosh, I'm sorry! It wasn't 1482 after all. That statement was issued this year. Just a few days ago, in fact. You can see how I might have gotten the dates wrong, though, since that kind of misogynous declaration couldn't possibly hold true today. Unfortunately, they really said it. But why? Author Tim Padgett, in Time magazine, explains it "When any institution is as convinced of its own moral infallibility as the Catholic Church is, it tends to lash out at criticism - especially charges as serious as the priestly rape of children - with Dostoyevskian paranoia. And the church then fortifies its less popular stances, like an all-male priesthood or the condemnation of gays, in the process becoming even more uncompromising." And don't start thinking that Mr. Padgett is against the Church, or Christianity, in any way. He was sitting in mass, watching his daughter serve as an altar girl, on Sunday, when he got the idea for his article.

Posted By: Nethie - Tue Jul 20, 2010 - Comments (6)
Category: Gods, Religion, Can’t Possibly Be True, Ethics and Morals

Lucifer’s Women

Also known as DOCTOR DRACULA.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 08, 2010 - Comments (1)
Category: Horror, Movies, Religion, 1970s

Devil’s Dance of Prizzi

The devil's dance of Prizzi from todavideo on Vimeo.

More information here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 06, 2010 - Comments (3)
Category: Holidays, Religion, Superstition, Foreign Customs, Europe

Best Graduation Speech Ever

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 05, 2010 - Comments (11)
Category: Disasters, Public Humiliation, Regionalism, Religion

God Made Me Do It

If this book is not pure catnip for us WU-vies, I'm not sure what is. Here's the product description from the link to the right:

Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings?

According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment.

Including:

* The man that God told to perform surgery on himself
* God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank
* The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station
* The woman God instructed to direct traffic—topless
* And, sadly, many more

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 10, 2010 - Comments (2)
Category: Eccentrics, Religion, Books

Gay News Today

Was Jesus Gay? Elton John seems to think so. He stated as much in a recent Parade magazine interview. Of course the mere idea struck terror into the hearts of all homophobic Christians and those who choose to interpret the bible as saying "discriminate openly" rather than "love thy fellow man".

And what about those silly gay people who want to serve in the military? Surprisingly, a recent CBS News poll asking about Obama's wish to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, finds that a majority of the public support allowing openly gay men and women to serve. But what's even more surprising is that the same poll doesn't want homosexuals to serve. I suppose the poll was worded badly. Or maybe the people who answered that poll still think gay means 'having or showing a merry, lively mood'. In that case, who wouldn't want a bunch of merry old souls in the military?



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Posted By: Nethie - Fri Feb 19, 2010 - Comments (11)
Category: Body, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Crime, Domestic, Government, Law, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Africa, Europe