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how priests handle customer complaints
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how priests handle customer complaints

A satirical customer complaint about prayer shines a light on the problem with telling people you can speak to a deity able to grant your desires in return for obedience and reverence.

a stormy movie is on the horizon
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a stormy movie is on the horizon

Tim Minchin's famous beat poem about a woo-ey dinner guest is getting made into a short film.

wielding blasphemy in a religious world
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wielding blasphemy in a religious world

The modern world needs blasphemy not just as abstract right, but being actively exercised when the occasion calls for it.

spotting the illuminati on saturn’s north pole
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spotting the illuminati on saturn’s north pole

Mike Adams thinks he might have found an Illuminati symbol on Saturn. But not really. But totally yes. But maybe not. But maybe.

space nazis, coming to a screen near you
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space nazis, coming to a screen near you

Way back when this blog was just getting started, I decided to include an odd and neat little image I once found making the rounds on the web in a post on Jim Marrs’ latest conspiracy potboiler. That graphic was a piece of concept art for an alt history film Iron Sky, currently being produced […]

why reporters shouldn’t quote ufologists
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why reporters shouldn’t quote ufologists

Despite what you may have heard, Voyager 2 remains very much under human, not alien, control.

selling paranoia to angry creationists
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selling paranoia to angry creationists

S.E. Cupp's profound insight: if liberals agree with the tenets of evolution, teaching science must be a conspiracy to destroy America.

weird things vs. the accommodationists
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weird things vs. the accommodationists

Chris Steadman and the (Non)Prophet Blog are very upset at my criticism and are ready to diligently dodge every one of my arguments.

alienating atheists one story at a time…
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alienating atheists one story at a time…

The (Non)Prophet blog has a contest for the atheists least likely to offend religious zealots and whose identity is based on how accommodating to their beliefs they are.

the strange world of non-believing preachers
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the strange world of non-believing preachers

What happens when a preacher loses faith? They may have no choice but to keep preaching...

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