The Airing of Grievances

Where Was God?

Read the article, read the comments. I can't even begin to do this justice, so I won't even try. I'm just wondering where god was? (Thanks Ann Tye)

What's Really Up With God

Hat tip Davenyc.

More Bad News for the Catholics

You heathens may not remember this but back in 1999, JPII pronounced that hell was not a physical place but a symbol for the absence of God. Apparently, the current pope doesn't think this idea does enough to strike fear into the hearts of the wicked and simply enables the sinners to do their thing. In light of that, he has now confirmed that hell is in fact a physical place where non-repentant sinners will burn for eternity.

Hell is a place where sinners burn in an eternal fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, the Pope has said.

So to recap...Hell is not a symbol. Sinners will enter the gates of Hades whereby they'll be condemned to a life of first degree burns, a constant barrage of pitch forks to the temple, and being gang raped by Hitler, Stalin, Pot, Hussein, Tom Brady, and Assman's brother.

Tread carefully, folks.

Sinners Welcomed

The Catholic Church is apparently actively solicting confessions. I'm not sure what I think about that, and surely it can't be worse than constantly seeking your money, but it does provide an opening for my non-religious self to ponder about the practice of confessing. Quite frankly, I don't get it. I mean, you sodomize a bunch of little boys and then go into a booth and confess to some dude in a black suit with a white strip around his neck, say your hail mary's or whatever and all is good with you and God? Am I missing something? WTF?

The Catholic Church Has Your Back

"New York City leads the nation in HIV cases. In 2005, 1,400 city inhabitants died of AIDS, the third-leading killer for residents under 65, behind only cancer and heart disease."

Yet Cardinal Egan and his ilk know what's best for us. Granted I don't have any use for organized religion, but I'm honestly wondering how this type of stuff is even remotely defensible? (Thanks ddd)

Purity Balls?

Feel like being creeped out?

(hat tip: Pandagon)

Ohio: The Heart Of It All!

Here's what you can learn about the people in your past on a slow day at work:

1) That your college marketing professor is a leading Intelligent Design proponent using her position on the Ohio state school board to push for the teaching of religion in public schools.
2) That you always thought your old professor was a dipshit and now finally have a good reason for that suspicion.
3) That an old friend's father, an 8-term Congressman and former teacher, has been drafted to unseat said dipshit.
4) That the dipshit just received about as brutal a smackdown as the scientific community at one of the country's leading universities can offer.

More exciting news from the cultural battleground that is Akron, Ohio coming later tonight...

"It's truly like an ATM for Jesus"

So says some pastor or the other. I say it's just a nice clean capitalistic way of ripping off some gullible folk.

"Color of the Cross"

Wonder how this is gonna sit with Jim Billy Bob and them. (Thanks Kristal K)

Guess Which State?

Now obviously the pastor is a special kind of scumbag, but a return engagement? Really? Wow.