faith alive

Faith Alive

1. Jewish rabbinical court sentences dog to death by stoning, on the grounds that he’s the reincarnation of a lawyer who once insulted rabbis.

2. The hierarchy of God’s love. (Via @shanehegarty)

3. In 1978, God changed his mind about black people.

4. “We stand tall…” Scientology power ballad from the late 1980s/early ’90s.

5. Finally, this man (top) should really, really be in jail.

Faith Alive

1. Out of control Amish teen in low-speed horse and buggy rampage.

2. Christopher Hitchens takes a charitable view of Mel Gibson’s recent transgressions.(Yeah, he does in his hole…)

3. Arab found guilty of rape after having consensual sex with Jew. Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE

Ordinarily, I’d wait until I had a few of these in the bag, but this one really speaks for itself… Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE

1. The new head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is a creationist.
2. Young Israeli volunteers patrol shopping centres and public places to break up Jewish-Arab dates… (God knows the last thing that place needs is an outbreak of tolerance and understanding!)
3. If it ain’t King James…

FAITH ALIVE

1. Animator Brad Neely relates the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
2. Is it a bird? Is it a plain? No, it’s 99 of the world’s lamest superheroes.
3. Outrage in Britain as an N.H.S. leaflet encourages teenagers to masturbate daily (kind of a redundant effort that, you’d have thought, but there you go…)
4. Southern Baptist pastor prays for the death of Obama.
5. Ultra Orthodox Jews riot in Jerusalem over the opening of a car park on Sabbath.
6. Finally, after a two year campaign of harassment by the mischievous spirit, a Saudi family is taking legal action against an unnamed genie in a religious court.

FAITH ALIVE

1. Frog that changes colour worshiped as god in India.
2. Veil-wearing Muslim teaching assistant strikes blow for religious freedom on BBC News 24.
3. What ever can it mean? Image of the Virgin Mary found on air conditioner in Texas.
4. Holy Spirit possesses American teenager, inspires her to speak in tongues. Also, turns on webcam and thoughtfully uploads video results to YouTube.
5. String him up! Christopher Hitchens on the human condition: Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE: APOSTASY EDITION

1. Former L.A. Times religious correspondent William Lobdell renounces his faith: “To see the Roman Catholic Church aiding, abetting, and facilitating paedophiles in staying undercover and unnoticed whilst they continued to rape children in their care, is enough to make one detest them.”
2. Meanwhile, here in Ireland: “The report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is the map of an Irish hell.”
3. But before anyone gets too carried away: “Fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle.” (Albert Einstein).

FAITH ALIVE

1. There aren’t too many websites that save souls or induce seizures. But the insanely brilliant International Congress of Churches and Ministers website does both.
2. Self-harming satanist. This, I believe, is what is referred to on the internet as a: FAIL.
3. One from the archives. Saudi religious police prevent schoolgirls from fleeing a burning building because they’re not wearing proper Islamic dress.
4. Finally, Frank Sinatra: homosexual menace.

[UPDATE: ICCM website was down yesterday, now working again. Well worth checking out, very The Day Today-esque.]