Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Our New Superhero: The Laughing Atheist

Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, withstood two solid hours of death curses, evil spells, and vigorous hand-waving by India's foremost tantrik, Pandit Surinder Sharma. It all started as a political row (Sharma is a true political Pandit), and the whole encounter was covered live on Indian TV. His only defense against the powers of Darth Sharma was laughter, which seemed to work, in spades. After the alotted two hours of death curses had expired, the Pandit explained that Sanal was obviously being protected by a very powerful god that he worshipped. “No, I am an atheist,” said Sanal. The Pandit warned Sanal not to provoke him to use his double-secret, super-powerful evil curse which, as it happens, can only be invoked at night. So Sanal challenged him to try again that very night, again on live TV, which the network carried as "Breaking News".

Wanna guess how things turned out? Full coverage here. (Thanks, Cory!)

3 comments:

Tits McGee said...

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Dr. Sardonic said...

I knew you were. I could feel it. That's why I put my Tits voodoo doll in molasses to slow you down. Also, so I could lick the molasses off mini-you later. Now where did I put those special candles?

Tits McGee said...

In my pants.