Posts under ‘Religious Freakazoids’

Reader AG says:

On [Bill] Maher’s show last week, Andrew Sullivan made a big show of defending religion and expressing contempt for Maher’s movie, Religulous. [The exchange begins at around 6:45 -- GB]:

But today, Sullivan says, “[e]ven I am a little shocked by this video from Palin’s church. Asking God to protect her from witchcraft?”

I don’t [...]

Jesus has taken time out of his busy schedule to imprint his visage on the ceiling of a weight loss clinic in Arkansas City, Kansas to help full-figured gals shed some extra lbs.  Heretics will say that this is a water stain cased by a leaky roof.  You’d have to be a real fool to believe that. 

“Believing is [...]

Never forget what a bunch of 9th Century throwbacks did to us seven years ago today.

PZ Myers has an incredible video of the kinds of things that may go on inside the Wasilla Assembly of God, one of Sarah Palin’s Alaska churches.  That congregation is associated with the Third Wave of the Holy Spirit Movement.  Adherents speak in tongues, writhe around on the ground, scream like their hair’s on fire, and would [...]

(H/T: SD)

I think in Iran, this is called “chutzpah.”
Iran protested Tuesday against a threat by Pensioners’ Affairs Minister and former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan to kidnap President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declaring it would not hesitate to act in self-defense.
In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran’s UN ambassador referred to Eitan stating that kidnapping Ahmadinejad is “an [...]

Isn’t that sweet?  Someone made a cross out of a John McCain “Service” placard. (Sorry for the grainy photo.)

I have to admit that when I first heard Sarah Palin speak, I immediately thought of Linda Novotny from Election.  But this, from Australian Hugh Atkin, is so much better:

Yesterday, I wrote about some of the weirdos who have spoken at Sarah Palin’s church over the years.  I wondered then whether she actually heard any of those sermons, since the right thought it was a legitimate question vis-a-vis Obama/Jeremiah Wright.
Now we know.  Linking to Politico, John Aravosis at AMERICAblog has additional information and it [...]

You really had to know this was coming.  Watch this video of Sarah Palin speak to her church on June 8 of this year.  [To be clear, Palin's speech is here.  The video below is not her.]
Although this was the first time I’d seen it, it was as if I’d heard Palin’s speech before.  I [...]