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Touchdown Jesus Burns, No Lessons Learned

by RichJune 25, 2010
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Before I begin, no, I did not mean for that headline to rhyme. But I like it, so we’re keeping it. Moving on… The internet-famous King of Kings statue went by was mocked by many names…Touchdown Jesus, Big Butter Jesus, Drowning Jesus, Super Jesus…but right now, he’s just Burn Victim Jesus. The 62-foot tall, 40-foot [...]

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Richard Dawkins Typography – “What If You’re Wrong?”

by RichJune 22, 2010

I love those moving typography videos all over YouTube, so when I saw this one using the audio from Dawkins answering the “most simplest” question, “What if you’re wrong?” I had to post it. If you haven’t seen the original verbal smackdown, you can watch it here. And as a bonus, I also found this [...]

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Doctors Find Near-Death Experiences Caused by Electricity, Not God

by RichJune 14, 2010

It looks like some more “proof” of god and the afterlife just bit the dust… A study of the brainwaves of dying patients showed a surge of electrical activity in the moments before their lives ended. The researchers suggest this surge may be the cause of near-death experiences, the mysterious medical phenomena in which patients [...]

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Hitchens on Obama’s Appeasement of the Vatican

by RichJune 9, 2010
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When Christopher Hitchens gets it right, he really gets it right, and when President Obama gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong. Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General and Obama’s pending nominee to the Supreme Court, and her office are also quite wrong…Wrong about what, you ask? It seems that both the president and the [...]

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Christopher Hitchens’ New Memoir, Hitch-22, Released Today

by RichJune 2, 2010

Whether you love or hate this polarizing writer/atheist/pundit/alcoholic, Christopher Hitchens has a new book out today, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive so far. It’s practically impossible to agree with the man on everything, but when he gets something right, goddamn does he ever get it right. While he’s known for [...]

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What You Don’t Know About the Nun Excommunicated for Approving an Abortion

by RichMay 31, 2010
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So we’ve been hearing a lot about Sister Margaret McBride in the news lately, the nun working for St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona who was excommunicated for approving an abortion. If you’ve been reading/watching the news lately at all you know the bullet points of the story: The woman in question was already a [...]

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