I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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Over at Screaming into the Void.

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I may actually agree with the state representatives of Tennessee in the following, though probably not for the same reasons:
A proposal that would allow the state Department of Education to develop a curriculum for the academic study of the Bible in public schools has passed the House.
The legislation sponsored by Rep. Mark Maddox was approved […]

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Religion Dispatches has a very interesting deconstruction of a well known Old Testament story, one used frequently to support “the Culture of Life” (forgive my scare quotes, but they scare me!), but which, RD argues, ought to be understood to support Justice.
Spark is a category for sharing links. No intense commentary, just a link & […]

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The Interfaith Alliance is keeping tabs on the race for Pastor in Chief of the United States of America and sums up the top ten creeptastic moments that remind us that, and I quote,
no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States
Good thing we […]

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George Carlin picks apart religious traditions & superstitions: “Suppose they hand you an upside down backward Chinese Braille bible with half the pages missing [for you to swear to tell the truth on]. At what point does all of this stuff just break down & become just a lot of stupid shit that somebody made […]

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First, there was John’s dabbling in mapping lolCats onto traditional religious images. Then, the folks over at Cracked gave us some awesome lolReligion interspersed in their 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree On (scroll down for the lolDog in need of a Catholic exorcism). But it didn’t stop there, oh no! Someone linked John […]

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God’s (i.e. Google’s) view of Biblical events (including the Crucifixion, the crossing of the Red Sea, and Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden) as imagined by the Glue Society.  Via Creative Review.

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I’d like to see a similar compilation of the Koran, but in the meantime, I shall leave you with this thought: instead of prayers in schools, we should have bears in schools. And let you find out for yourselves exactly which verse that describes.
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I’m not a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, but this made some sense to me:
Clinton later said Democrats should speak about religion more openly to frame policy debates.
“The Bible should be used to win debates over poverty the way Republicans tried to use it on gay marriage,” she said. “No one can read the New […]

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