Cue up The Fixx on the iPod. Here’s an example of where belonging to one cult can lead to another. I had no idea Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam was involved with the “Church” of Scientology, but it appears that there are some significant connections between the two.
Category Archive: Religious Weirdness
Oct 10 2012
Romney and the White Horse Prophecy
Here’s something I’d never heard of before. Apparently there is something called the “white horse prophecy” in Mormon folklore, an old and unconfirmed story that Joseph Smith once had a vision that in the last days a Mormon will save the country and the Constitution:
Oct 08 2012
God About to Remove His Hand of Protection. Again.
As I’ve noted before, the wingnuts seem to be forever be doing two contradictory things: Telling us that God has “lifted his hand of protection” from America or is on the verge of doing so if we don’t do everything they demand (like punishing gay people more and sending them lots of money). Here’s Pat …
Oct 08 2012
Barton Finds More Non-Existent Parallels
Right Wing Watch is going through David Barton’s new Founder’s Bible, which contains many more of the kind of claims he makes constantly — taking a Bible verse and distorting the hell out of it to make some tenuous connection to something we now know to be true. Did you know that the Bible foretells …
Sep 13 2012
God: Deadbeat Dad
The Worldnutdaily has a very amusing headline that is, unsurprisingly, just another fake adverticle, a “news” article that is really just an ad for a book they’re selling. And though they only refer to a “Christian author,” it’s actually Joe Kovacs, one of their reporters. Here’s the headline: CHRISTIAN AUTHOR: GOD IS HAVING OFFSPRING ‘The …
Sep 12 2012
Blanchard Wants Undue ‘Respect’ for Rev. Moon
Kate Blanchard, a non-believing religious studies professor at Alma College, not far from where I live, writes at Religion Dispatches about the death of the recently deceased Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Unfortunately, she seems to think that the man, and his corrupt “church,” deserves some vague “respect” merely because he has managed to fool a …
Aug 28 2012
The Message of Hurricane Isaac, Decoded
For the second straight election, a hurricane has disrupted the start of the Republican National Convention. Given that a sizable percentage of the GOP’s base believes that weather disasters are sent by God as punishment, I was greatly anticipating the wingnut pronouncements of what this event means. Question answered.
Aug 19 2012
Get Your Blood of Jesus Oil
I used to be on the mailing list of Peter Popoff, the faith-healing con man exposed by James Randi in the mid-80s. One of his gimmicks, which he still uses, is to send you a vial of holy water, allegedly from the Jordan river. Here’s a very similar scam — blood of Jesus oil.
Aug 18 2012
A Cloud of Witnesses
This came up in conversation the other day and I thought I’d link to it again. It’s a document put out by Rev. Moon’s Unification Church called A Cloud of Witnesses and it’s one of the funniest things you’ll ever read. It was actually published in full page ads in newspapers all over the world …
Aug 15 2012
‘Faith Healer’ Brags About Violent Tendencies
Here’s a video of Todd Bentley, a “faith healer” (read: complete fraud), bragging to a congregation about how the holy spirit often tells him to become violent in order to heal people, including kicking a woman with cancer in the face. He claims he healed her, of course, but like all faith healers he can’t …
Aug 09 2012
Religious Ignorance and Religious Bigotry
One of the things that has happened in the wake of a shooting spree at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin is that some pretty prominent people have displayed rank ignorance of the most basic distinctions between different religions. Fox News host Gregg Jarrett, for example, seems to think that it was a Jewish temple that …
Aug 03 2012
Mikey’s Messianic Jew Correspondent Doesn’t Heart Me
I wrote the other day about a messianic Jew who wrote some highly stupid things to Mikey Weinstein, who told him in blunt language to have coital relations with himself and stop bothering him. So that guy, Menachem Mevashir, decided he would write to me too. In his first email he quoted JD’s comment on …
Aug 02 2012
Pastor Indicted for False Imprisonment, Kidnapping
From the Department of What the Hell Were You Thinking: A pastor in Pennsylvania has been criminally charged with false imprisonment and assault for staging a fake kidnapping of the youth group at his church that none of them knew was fake.
Jul 31 2012
Shooting Victim ‘Felt Evil’, Says God Saved Him
And here we have the perfect contrast to the rational survivor of the Aurora gunman who thanked the paramedics and doctors for saving her life; this guy says God saved him because he was praying. Oh, and that God was in the theater that night with him — but apparently not with all the dead …
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