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Daily Hilarity: Fake Ad For “Burn A Quran Day”

DC Douglas captures the common denominator between religiously inspired book burning and professional wrestling/monster rally aesthetics: By DC Douglas, via Boing Boing and thanks to Eric. Your Thoughts?

Mr. Deity And The Denial

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Sundaily Hilarity: Proof Of Monkey God

It’s about as good as all other arguments for a personal god: Thanks to Linus for the link. Your Thoughts?

Sundaily Hilarity: God Answers Prayer Of Paralyzed Little Boy

An Onion classic from 1998: SAN FRANCISCO–For as long as he can remember, 7-year-old Timmy Yu has had one precious dream: From the bottom of his heart, he has hoped against hope that God would someday hear his prayer to walk again. Though many thought Timmy’s heavenly plea would never be answered, his dream finally [...]

Sundaily Hilarity: God’s Limits

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Daily Hilarity: When Larry Met Deity

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On Confronting The Harsh Truths About Death

My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth -that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally – but I didn’t want to upset him. More deep [...]

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Daily Hilarity: Are We God’s One And Only?

In response to the attention I brought to the great comic strip about “The Four Horsemen” earlier tonight, The Vicar recommends this great comic strip, Head Doctor Productions, from Daniel B. Willingham: Your Thoughts?

“Mickey Mouse Jesus” Gets Art Curators Convicted Of Inciting Religious Hatred In Moscow

The LA Atheism Examiner reports: Two art curators, Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, were convicted Monday by a Moscow court of “inciting religious hatred’ for putting on an exhibet called “Forbidden Art” in 2007. A Mickey Mouse Jesus, a Coca Cola Christ with the slogan “this is my blood” and a Christ on the cross [...]

“I Didn’t Evolve From You”

Some classic Saturday Night Live with Dana Carvey as Regis Philbin and Jan Hooks as Kathy Lee Gifford. The era on the show that they come from (and which extends for me just a couple years beyond them) ~1986-1994 was when I came of age, so it will always be my favorite: Thanks to Heather [...]

Sundaily Hilarity: Permission Slip

I have been hearing numerous appalling stories of late of public school districts incorporating field trips to churches into their activities.  On Facebook, in reply to my friend Jessica’s anxiety about what to do about a proposed trip for her own son, another friend, Glynis pointed to an e-mail exchange presenting one approach for dealing [...]

Daily Hilarity: Stephen Colbert On Homosexuals

Okay, I couldn’t post that video in which a Christian singer unironically sings “I am America” without balancing it out with a little of Stephen Colbert deliciously ironic, I Am America (And So Can You!). In this clip he all too depressingly accurately apes homophobic logic: Your Thoughts?

South Park’s Chef Explains God And Answers The Problem Of Evil

I used this video to help illustrate a point over a year ago. Back then we did not have the capabilities to actually embed the video. Oh, and we had almost no readers either. But now that we are at a new host that lets us embed whatever we want, it’s been finally added to [...]

God’s “Orbit Plans” For Bristol Palin

Tinfoiler interprets current events for her son: Blessed Bristol Palin is back in the news discussing her wonderful love child.  When my son Hunter asked me why it was okay for Bristol Palin to have a baby before she was married, I told him that God has special rules for special people.  God knew that Bristol [...]

Judge This: The Pancake Mix Rebuttal To Street Evangelism

This looks quite effective: If you consider it too antagonistic or too mocking, I’m interested in your views about my standards for fairly mocking religious beliefs, which I discuss in the posts, In Defense Of Mocking And Embarrassing Religion and My Thoughts On Blasphemy Day.  If you accept my standards but still disagree, why do you think [...]

Daily Hilarity: 40 Proofs Of God’s Existence

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Mr. Deity: The Prequel

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Daily Hilarity: A New Pope In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

The absurdity of religious ceremonial pretensions are clarified a bit: Thanks to Heather for the link. Your Thoughts?

The Thing That Made The Things For Which There Is No Known Maker

Strictly deriving belief in the Christian God logically from the problem of where everything comes from: It’s amazing how the problem of how something comes from nothing leads to so many obvious and unavoidable truths, isn’t it? Your Thoughts?

The Story Of Abraham And Isaac In A Memeshell

From, via. Your Thoughts?

Muhammad Returns With Updated Laws

Praise Allah!  He has sent his Prophet back to us with an updated set of moral rules.  Finally the conflict between Islamic and Western values has been peaceably resolved as Allah now is demanding a modernization of values in the Islamic world! Your praises for Allah and pledges of allegiance to Muhammad’s new Sha’ria?

Daily Hilarity: “Any Type Of Hug Is A Gateway Hug”

As we already learned previously, young Evangelical Christians are just mad crazy about the side hug: (Thanks to Chris!) More stuff evangelicals like. (Hint, premarital kissing is not one of them.) Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Restore Joss Whedon

In reply to the infamous, unintentionally hilarious “Restore Stephen Baldwin” video (which is unfortunately no longer accessible on YouTube, comes this pitch-perfect satire, apparently with the exact same narrator: “Restore Joss Whedon” (apparently major Serenity spoilers within): Your Thoughts?