A Polish priest who carried out an exorcism on a teenage girl says he is getting abusive text messages — from the devil. It appears Lucifer isn’t too happy that Father Marian Rajchel tried to save the young girl’s soul and has been voicing his displeasure via text. “The author of these texts is an evil spirit who has possessed her soul”, he told the Austrian Times. “Often the owners of mobile phones are not even aware that they are being used like this. However, in this case it is clear.” READ FULL ARTICLE |
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Bob Frey, a Michele Bachmann ally and Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, wants public schools to teach students that humans and dinosaurs lived together.
Frey, who also has his own bizarre theory about HIV/AIDS, alleged in a 2004 appearance before the Minnesota State Senate Education Committee that the fossil record proves that “dinosaurs have always lived with man,” and such “real science” should be taught in public schools. READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE The American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan and two secular groups are suing the city of Warren and its mayor, Jim Fouts, on behalf of an atheist resident who was forbidden from setting up a "reason station" alongside a long-standing "prayer station" in the City Hall atrium.
While Fouts has permitted a local church group to distribute religious pamphlets and pray with visitors in the atrium since 2009, he rejected a similar proposal by Freedom From Religion member Douglas Marshall to discuss atheism and freethought in April. Wednesday's lawsuit, filed with Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, claims that Fouts violated Marshall's First Amendment rights by endorsing "traditional religious beliefs over atheistic beliefs." "They are just there if someone wishes to seek solace or guidance from them," Fouts told the AP on Wednesday. "The atheist station does not serve that purpose. It will not contribute to community values or helping an individual out." Comparing atheists to Nazis and white supremacists, Fouts argued that Marshall's "reason station" would be fundamentally antagonistic to prayer. "The city has certain values that I don't believe are in general agreement with having an atheist station, nor in general agreement with having a Nazi station or Ku Klux Klan station," Fouts added. "I cannot accept or will not allow a group that is disparaging of another group to have a station here." READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE Of all the ways that marriage is changing in our culture—opening up to same-sex couples, becoming more egalitarian—one major shift has managed to happen without much mainstream media commentary: Marriage, or the wedding at least, is also becoming more secular. The iconic image of the bride marching
down a church aisle is turning into a distant memory for many Americans, replaced with weddings on beaches, in parks, in backyards, and increasingly officiated not by one's minister or rabbi but by a dear friend who turned himself into a minister overnight by getting ordained online. Becoming a fake minister has been a necessary part of the officiating job because many states require it. But those requirements received a big blow Monday, when a federal appeals court overturned such a law in Indiana, saying that the state must now allow "secular celebrants" to officiate weddings. ORIGINAL ARTICLE Creationist Ken Ham, who recently debated Bill Nye the Science Guy over the origins of the universe, is calling for an end to the search for extraterrestrial life because aliens probably don't exist -- and if they do,
they're going to Hell anyway. "You see, the Bible makes it clear that Adam’s sin affected the whole universe," Ham wrote on his blog on Sunday. "This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation." READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds7/22/2014
It took three years for comedians and Catholics to find a mutually agreeable way to rename part of a Manhattan street after George Carlin, the merrily vulgar comic who made religion a frequent target of his acerbic monologues.
A bill signed into law on Wednesday finally declared that a two-block stretch of West 121st Street was named George Carlin Way. But it was supposed to be only one block — and not the one once home to Mr. Carlin, and still home to the Corpus Christi Church. Priests there opposed the plan for years, calling Mr. Carlin, who died in 2008, unworthy of the honor. Yet in an irony of Carlinesque proportions, a clerical error means that Mr. Carlin’s childhood church will indeed reside on a block ceremonially named for the comic who relentlessly skewered it. READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Slicing into an eggplant turned into a religious experience for a Baton Rouge chef when he found the word "GOD" spelled out inside, arranged in seeds. Line cook Jermarcus Brady of Gino's Restaurant called it a "miraculous image" in an interview with WAFB, a CBS affiliate in Baton Rouge. Brady is religious and told WAFB that his faith has helped him to get through rough times.
"He's showing me that 'hey, I'm real' and that's the only thing I can depend on," he told the station. He told local ABC affiliate WBRZ that he's "scared to slice another eggplant." Gino Marino, one of the restaurant's owners, was also moved by the spiritual seed arrangement. READ FULL ARTICLE In 2007, a Pennsylvania woman also found God in an eggplant. Here's a Mitchell and Webb video that kind of sums it all up. |