A blog companion to the book by Susan Campbell
Of course, when no less a Big Thinker than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he believes the world is going to hell in a hand basket because people like me (women) drop the F-bomb, you really have to drop to your knees and pray about it for a moment. I mean: Scalia! Has! Fucking! …
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In yet another gift to satire writers everywhere, former Congresswoman and current Queen of Crazy Michele Bachmann said in a radio interview that…well, just listen to it, won’t you? You can listen to more here. According to Christian Extremist and Cosmic Birth Pains Observer Bachmann, the Rapture is coming. Jesus is coming, but it’s happening …
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See how that happens? Life’s a circle, grandbabies. You are from a fractious family separated by fissures deeper than the ocean, but you also come from a fierce and proud line of folks who, if necessary, will reach out from the grave to prop you up. I know this. It’s happened to me. I’m sorry …
The Rev. Creflo Dollar has askd for $60 million in donations so that he can buy a new jet (shown in the photo above, shooting straight up to God). Maybe if he asks nicely, he can park it in Joel Osteen’s driveway.
Judge Moore comes to the mercy seat — again — bearing the sin of arrogance, for which he should be delivered. Oh, Lord, we pray that Judge Moore — one of your own children — sees the error of his way in believing he knows the definition of “organic law.” We pray that Judge Moore …
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…we have to ask: Are natural disasters God vs. humanity? Eliza Wood writes at Huffington Post: When neither the crisis nor the human reaction to it can be controlled, many of us on the outside of a crisis wonder just what kind of God we have and what possible use is praying? These are age-old …
Depends on who you ask. Personally, I’m hoping She grades on a curve.
Yuck it up, Christians! I post this because it made me think because there’s the perennial question of why bad things happen, and why God lets that happen. I don’t struggle with this question because I’m not that deep. I just always figure God’s paying attention to someone/thing else, which makes you wonder about the …
Writer Anne Lamott posed the question, and all hell broke loose. If you’re not on Facebook, here’s what she said: I have been over at Twitter, causing problems again by saying that no matter how much we all hate this, God loves Jerry Sandusky as much as He or She loves our grandchildren. That’s the …
Dating Jesus 