When your prayers are only ever answered by mortals, it’s time to stop asking god.

Saw another prayer request on Mark Shea’s blog that I thought begged for comment. My reader who has been suffering from profound depression has a treatment option open to her, but will need resources to do it, particularly childcare every day for three weeks from 8 to 5.  FWIW, I’ve suggested she start a Kickstarter [...]

Pat Robertson marriage counseling: men sometimes cheat – go make the house nice.

Oh, Pat Robertson. Someone asked her for advice on how to forgive her cheating husband.  Here’s comes the failure bomb: You see, if you’d have just kept the house nicer, he wouldn’t have cheated.  You have nobody to blame but yourself. The irony?  She’ll probably be thankful for that advice.

Behold! One of Anna L. Pierre’s signs.

So, remember when Anna L. Pierre said she was endorsed by Jesus Christ in her bid to be mayor of Miami? She said she knew Jesus endorsed her because of three signs which she said she wouldn’t discuss publicly. Well, I just read one of them: Pierre had told the Miami Herald Jesus came to [...]

Mark Shea: the Catholic Church is awesome for not doing anything to Keith O’Brien.

My favorite whipping boy, Mark Shea, has a post up about disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned over groping men in his charge, including teenage boys.  Apparently O’Brien leaving his post of his own accord shows how awesome the Catholic Church is: Vatican announcement: Disgraced Cardinal O’Brien leaving Scotland for “penance and prayer”… Memo for [...]

Well, the votes are in for mayor of Miami.

Anna L. Pierre, who said that Jesus had endorsed her to run for mayor of Miami, came away with 56% of the vote. Wait…not 56% of the vote…she just got 56 votes.  Total. Of course, you won’t hear her say “Gosh, I guess I read too much into naturally occurring phenomenon and wrongly interpreted it [...]

Mayoral candidate in Miami claims to be endorsed by Jesus Christ.

Jesus has endorsed a long list of failures: Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, John McCain, George W. Bush (who wound up getting elected, which shows god is not the best judge of who to appoint to positions of power), Joseph Ratzinger (god could’ve chosen someone who wouldn’t ignore victims to shield child rapists from justice, which [...]

No, the FFRF does not approve of your elementary school’s bible distribution program.

I read this story today.  It’s about an elementary school in Tennessee that sent home permission slips with kids.  If signed, it would permit the child to return home with a copy of the New Testament from the Gideons. Immediately I thought “that’s obviously against the law.” But then I kept reading and I saw [...]

Dad responds to letter to the editor on Sodom and Gommorah.

Father saw this letter to the editor in the local paper: After seeing some of a documentary on TV about why Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, well, I had to speak up. They said it was destroyed because the people lacked hospitality. Really? Read Genesis 19:1-13. Two angels came to Lot to take him and [...]

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to ride a broomstick above 150 meters.

It seems the lawmakers in Swaziland are tackling the big issues about as well as Republicans in Texas.  Should you ever visit Swaziland, be careful how high you ride your broomstick. “A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit,” Civil Aviation Authority marketing and corporate affairs director Sabelo Dlamini told the [...]

Minnesota is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED! (But it feels so good!)

Like a Christian high schooler who sees their peers having pre-marital sex and thinks “I want to try that” despite the promises of hell from their faith, Minnesota has taken a swift look at Delaware and decided they want a taste of that hot, steamy equality action, even though it means the state will be [...]