Courtyard Of The Gentiles? What’s the Point?
Word has leaked out that the Catholic Church is planning a new strategy for transforming people who don’t believe in gods into Catholic believers. It’s called the Courtyard of the Gentiles, and it will...
View ArticleProtesting The Pope
This Saturday, at 1:00 PM local time, a group of humanists will meet in Hyde Park, London, and march to Downing Street to protest against Pope Benedict XVI, who will be visiting the United Kingdom at...
View ArticlePope Benedict Calls Religious Freedom “Anti-Clericalism”
Pope Benedict has been complaining this week about the “Anti-Clericalism” in the country of Spain. Specifically, he’s upset that the government of Spain no longer requires its schoolkids to take...
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Pope Ratzinger Blames Jesus for Catholic Sexual Abuse of Children
All over the world, large numbers of Catholic priests have been caught raping and sexually molesting children. All over the world, large numbers of leaders in the Roman Catholic Church covered up the...
View ArticlePope Ratzinger Resigns To Spend More Time With His Family
This morning, it was announced by the Vatican City that Joseph Ratzinger, who uses the alias Pope Benedict, will resign at the end of the month. The explanation that was provided: Bad health. I suppose...
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A Vatican Of Bad Fish
Ten days ago, I wondered what could be the real explanation for Joseph Ratzinger deciding to become the first Catholic Pope in over 600 years to resign rather than die in office. Given that his...
View ArticleBernard Sanders Cites Pope Frances
This week, Bernard Sanders, the socialist independent U.S. Senator from Vermont, stood up in front of his colleagues to quote the Pope. “I don’t usually comment much on religious matters, but I was...
View ArticlePope Francis Identifies God’s Specific Physical Qualities
In a remarkable reversal, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has declared that the Christian god is not omnipotent after all. Rather, it seems that God can only move so fast. Specifically, God is...
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Charisma News Advocates Putting Corpses On Trial
“We must recover America’s Christian heritage,” writes Charisma News, a web site that purports to report the news from a Christian perspective. What might that Christian heritage be, though? The word...
View ArticleAn Alabama Christian’s Strange Alternative History
Many of the threats against Amanda Scott by Alabama Christians, in retaliation for her request for equal legal rights for atheists, were frighteningly violent. I described some of those earlier this...
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Pope Who?
Today I’ve been in the city of Rome, and the trinket trade is immediately noticeable. Being symbiotically attached to the Vatican City as a remora to a shark (you guess which one is which), there are...
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What the Pope vs. Trump Smackfest Reveals
Over the last day, Pope Francis and Donald Trump have been exchanging verbal volleys from their standpoints as the only living man to head both a nation and a religion and another man who aspires to...
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