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. hattip

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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 [...]

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Jana just sent me this link (it’s from 2002, but it’s new to me, and hopefully to you) to a 160 character, text-messagized version of the Lord’ Prayer. This was the winning submission of a contest sponsored by Ship of Fools Magazine: dad@hvn,ur spshl.we want wot u want&urth2b like hvn.giv us food&4giv r sins lyk [...]

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