Archive for June, 2006

Death Threats for Jesus: CNN Interview with Ava Lowery

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Ava Lowery (the girl who created a Flash video with images of injured Iraqi children juxtaposed with “Jesus Loves Me” and received death threats from True Christian-American Dominionist Patriots and other members of Wingnutia) was interviewed on CNN. Though the interview is a bit wonky, it’s interesting to note that Ava hasn’t received hate […]

Preach It, Tom!

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Tom Lyberg of the Wired Jesus Podcast/blog posted a concise, right-on commentary about a Comic Book Jesus (see his blog for the images and whatnot).

It’s just crazy when people don’t understand the power of myth and literally turn Jesus in[to] a comic book character. [S]ome folks just don’t get anything past the third grade.

I […]

Dance Monkey, Dance!

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Dance Monkey, Dance!

Ann Coulter: Episcopalians Aren’t Christians, but Jews Are

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

It’s been my intent to avoid commenting on Ann Coulter’s new book (Godless: The Church of Liberalism) because she’s sorely lacking in the intellect department (sorry Sofyst, your future ex-wife is a moron), rarely has anything of substantive value to say, and “any press is good press.” However, this is a good example of […]

U.S. Senate Barely Vetoes Bigotry

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Looks like institutional bigotry, ignorance, and hate was defeated in the Senate. Frighteningly, only by a narrow margin and quite sadly, this is no mere serpent of an issue, it’s a Medusa head.

Rest In Peace, Billy Preston

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_MbfAS9hE

True Spirituality.

Dumbass In the Lion’s Den

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Unbelievable jackassery.

Back in Black

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Teenagers who take pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to deny having taken the pledge if they later become sexually active. Conversely, those who were sexual[ly] active before taking the pledge frequency deny their sexual history, according to new study findings.

These findings imply that virginity pledgers often provide unreliable data, making assessment of […]