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http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/16622429904

If your solution to massive industrial accidents is prayer, and furthermore you believe "man's efforts" are "futile" I cordially suggest that you don't get to have an opinion. Shush now, the grown ups are talking.

Wait a minute... wasn't she pushing the whole 'drill drill drill!' policy in Alaska? What were their plans in the event of some terrible accident, asking a passing thunderstorm to help out? Relying on Zeus coming back to his people in the form of a giant Red Adair?

Baby Dies After Mother Chokes Her With Bible Pages

While it would be a mistake to ascribe the tragedy to religion rather than mental illness, it's interesting that authorities are applying special scrutiny to the intersection of mental illness and religious fervor: in combination, these things can indeed be a red flag.

According to the Daily Telegraph, when social workers initially met with David Lovemore for assessment in 2009, "when he was asked what he would do if Faith or her sister got into difficulty he said he would pray first. He never said yes or no to calling a doctor." Additionally, Julia's aunt told authorities that her niece's "religious fervor" had distanced her from her family, whom she denounced as "heathens." In combination, these things cannot be dismissed as "the practice of religious beliefs" - at least not where children's welfare is concerned.

Wrath of God FTW!

Touchdown Jesus, Touch-Me Jesus, whatevs: game over.

Oilpocalypse Now

A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse?

About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Broadly speaking, these Christians subscribe to a theology called "premillennial dispensationalism." In this world view, they are warriors on the side of God: a cosmic battle—culminating in apocalypse, judgment, and, finally, the reign of Jesus in “a new heaven and a new earth”—will come soon. The most determined of these believers mine the Book of Revelation for signs that the end is near. A text of terrifying and mysterious prophesy, Revelation forecasts the apocalypse in coded language; Christians have spent lifetimes trying to break that code by correlating its verses to current events. (A New York minister named William Miller used Revelation and other sources to predict that the world would end on Oct. 22, 1844. He had previously predicted—wrongly, obviously—that the date would be March 21, 1843. The Millerites, once a powerful and fast-growing sect, quickly became extinct.)

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