Talking to children about god exposes some serious flaws in credibility: "He could just make the earth collapse," says one child; "When he gets happy, he brings out the sun," says another. These kids are all over the fucking map.
Here Is What a Double-KO to the Nuts in a Christian Fight Looks Like
"Fight Church" is a new documentary about the counterintuitive subculture of Christian mixed martial arts fighting. The clip above gives you a taste of what a full contact Muay Thai fight night in a Christian church looks like.
Church Canceled Funeral Because Deceased Son Was Gay, Family Says
The day before Julion Evans' funeral was scheduled to happen at Tampa, Florida's New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Evans' mother reportedly got a phone call from a pastor. Because the deceased was gay, he said, the church would have to cancel the funeral.
Michele Bachmann: Gays Will "Freely Prey on Little Children Sexually"
Michele Bachmann—former presidential candidate, soon-to-be-ex-congresswoman, corn-dog enthusiast—wants to make sure you know what's at stake in the gay-rights debate: tyranny, deviancy, and most of all, lots of child rape.
Fired Editor Sues for His Religious Freedom to Write About "Gaystapo"
Back in May, the Newton Daily News of Iowa fired its editor-in-chief for comments he'd made on his personal blog. This week, the editor filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming he was fired for his sincere religious beliefs, which compel him to fight "the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo" to the last.
"We've come to Washington to ask our government to stop demanding for Israel to show restraint," the Christians United for Israel founding pastor told his audience. Later, an IDF veteran told the cheering, flag-waving Christians: "The soldiers of Israel must smash their skulls and break their spines."
Naked and Unafraid: Baring Witness at a Christian Nudist Festival
The first thing everybody at Lake Como Nudist Resort seems to want to tell me is they're not like those creeps over at Caliente, the resort up the street. "They're not even nudists," says a nurse in her late 40s, with a red sarong around her waist and grand breasts that rest just short of it, as she drinks a beer at…
The Church of England Just Voted to Allow Female Bishops
The General Synod of the Church of England voted Monday to allow women to become bishops. Women have been priests in the church since 1992, but legislation to make them bishops failed in 2012.
Clerk's Screwup Puts Catholic Church on Street Named for George Carlin
The late George Carlin—comedic evangelist for the profane, antagonist of the faithful, author of When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?—is getting a Manhattan street named after him, and thanks to a paperwork failure, it will run past the childhood Catholic parish he embarrassed so badly in life.
Rick Santorum's Making a Hobby Lobby Movie Comparing Liberals to Nazis
Well, hiring a Japanese T&A anime guru didn't fix Rick Santorum's movie studio, but maybe this film will give it a shot in the arm. One Generation Away: The Erosion Of Religious Liberty. Coming to a concerned grandmother's VHS near you on September 1!
Liberia's top governmental medical officer is pleading with the country's pastors to stop keeping people infected with ebola in churches. Many there believe they "can be healed through prayer."
House of Worship for Muslims, Christians, and Jews Proposed In Berlin
A new proposal in Berlin is seeking donations for its so-called House of One, a multi-purpose house of worship for Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The building will hold a synagogue, a church, and a mosque all under the same roof.
America's Catholic bishops are considering whether their voter's guide's "discussion of evil, now focused on abortion and racism, should be revisited in light of the pope's description of economic inequality as a social evil." Well... let's not be hasty.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), the pride of Nacogdoches, tells a liberal Christian pastor that the pastor is not really a Christian. In the middle of a televised hearing. Because Louie Gohmert knows things.
A tea party House candidate in Oklahoma has endorsed stoning gays to death. It "goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I'm largely libertarian," he says, "but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss."
There's a megachurch in Texas, 90 percent of whose 4,500 members are LGBT. And it's been officiating gay marriages for like 40 years. Give us that old-time religion!
Church Billboard Quotes Hitler on the Importance of Educating the Kids
Pity the youth ministry. It's a real struggle recruiting kids to your cause. You know who else struggled to recruit the young people? Life Savers Ministries of Opelika, Alabama, sure does.
Dead Guru's Followers Stick Him In Freezer, Claim He's "Meditating"
The family of India's wealthiest guru, with an estate reportedly valued at $167 million, believes he died of a heart attack in late January. But his followers have spirited him away to a temple freezer and refuse to turn his body over because, they say, "he has been in deep meditation."
Paul Weyrich tried to found the political religious right in the '70s around porn, school prayer, the ERA, and abortion. "I was trying to get these people interested in those issues and I utterly failed," he said. Then he found something that worked: Fighting for racial segregation.
Catholic Church Hastens to Reassure Everyone the Pope Is a Capitalist
Cool new Pope, "Francis" (not his real name), has won lots of new fans for pointing out the exploitative and rapacious nature of global capitalism. The Catholic Church would like to assure you the Pope is not a commie. He loves the free market!
