Was It All Prophesied?
There’s nothing like a natural or man-made disaster to bring the fundamentalist Christians out of the woodwork, claiming that Biblical prophecy predicted what happened. The present economic meltdown in...
View ArticleAtheist Cashing In On Rapture
Christians of the apocalyptic sort — which includes most all of the fundamentalist Christians in the occidental world, especially in the US — look forward to something they refer to as “the Rapture.”...
View ArticleEarly Church History In The News!
This blog post is more light-hearted than usual but it’s something I found interesting, given my interest in early Church history and in linguistics. Normally a spelling bee wouldn’t be something I...
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Fingerprints, Mark Of The Beast!
There are certain Bible passages which have caused much more mayhem than others. Exodus 22:18, for example, has directly caused the deaths of many women over the centuries. Matthew 28:18-20 led to...
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Doomsayer Uses Japan Earthquake To Propound Doom
A funny thing happened while Tim LaHaye and a cadre of like-minded proponents of cosmic doom ventured to Hawai’i to discuss their predictions of divinely-ordained cataclysm: They were rudely...
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FactCheck Takes On Graham’s Apocalypticism
As a rule, people love to think they live in unusual times, and more often than not, they think the unusual things going on, are bad. Really bad. Historically-unprecedented bad. If you could ask anyone...
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Christian Sues His Employer Over ‘666’
A fundamentalist Christian in Georgia is suing the company that fired him because he refused to wear a sticker with the number “666” on it. The AP reports via the Washington Post On Faith blog on this...
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MS Judge Forces Youth To Write Bible Essays
Here’s something that’s not surprising, way down south in the Bible Belt Bobble Bayelt state of Mississippi. As the Biloxi Sun Herald explains, a judge there assigns Bible essays to youthful offenders...
View ArticleWas It All Prophesied?
There’s nothing like a natural or man-made disaster to bring the fundamentalist Christians out of the woodwork, claiming that Biblical prophecy predicted what happened. The present economic meltdown in...
View ArticleAtheist Cashing In On Rapture
Christians of the apocalyptic sort — which includes most all of the fundamentalist Christians in the occidental world, especially in the US — look forward to something they refer to as “the Rapture.”...
View ArticleEarly Church History In The News!
This blog post is more light-hearted than usual but it’s something I found interesting, given my interest in early Church history and in linguistics. Normally a spelling bee wouldn’t be something I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fingerprints, Mark Of The Beast!
There are certain Bible passages which have caused much more mayhem than others. Exodus 22:18, for example, has directly caused the deaths of many women over the centuries. Matthew 28:18-20 led to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doomsayer Uses Japan Earthquake To Propound Doom
A funny thing happened while Tim LaHaye and a cadre of like-minded proponents of cosmic doom ventured to Hawai’i to discuss their predictions of divinely-ordained cataclysm: They were rudely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FactCheck Takes On Graham’s Apocalypticism
As a rule, people love to think they live in unusual times, and more often than not, they think the unusual things going on, are bad. Really bad. Historically-unprecedented bad. If you could ask anyone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Christian Sues His Employer Over ‘666’
A fundamentalist Christian in Georgia is suing the company that fired him because he refused to wear a sticker with the number “666” on it. The AP reports via the Washington Post On Faith blog on this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MS Judge Forces Youth To Write Bible Essays
Here’s something that’s not surprising, way down south in the Bible Belt Bobble Bayelt state of Mississippi. As the Biloxi Sun Herald explains, a judge there assigns Bible essays to youthful offenders...
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