Someone's in the kitchen with His Noodly Appendage

Edible Flying Spaghetti Monster! Make your own!

Tales of the Darkseid

This DIY Chick tract is almost as creepy as the real thing!

Pope prays to rid priesthood of paedophilia

The Times reports that

Pope Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. All dioceses, parishes, monasteries, convents and seminaries will be expected to organise continuous daily prayers to express penitence and to purify the clergy.

Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate a person or group each day to conduct continuous prayers for the Church to rid itself of the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy. Alternatively, churches in the same diocese could share the duty. Prayer would take place in one parish for 24 hours, then move to another.

Well thank goodness they're organising it along scientific lines eh? It would be a real shame if god ignored their heartfelt pleas because of a technical prayer issue.

I'd advise anybody who works for a large organisation that has concrete proof of colleagues breaking the law, perhaps cooking the books or exploiting employees, to wish really hard that it wasn't happening - yeah that's probably the best solution.

Whether you believe in god and the efficacy of prayer or not it's hard to think of something more horrifically patronising than this news. When it comes to prayer I'm with Emo Phillips:

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

Hypothetically speaking...

Just as a thought experiment.

If somehow all trace of religiosity were removed from the planet earth; no believers, no texts, no cathedrals no trace at all... (I stress this is a hypothetical idea, I'm not advocating the complete removal of all traces of religion from planet Earth even if it were possible)

...what would happen within two generations? Within a hundred, a thousand?

My completely unqualified surmise is that faiths and religion would spring up, humans appear to be inclined toward it, it just wouldn't be Judaism, Islam Christianity or any of the current crop.

The True Meaning of Christmas

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?

Is God Using NAFTA Superhighway to Stop Homosexuality?

Yes. Obviously.