Mel Gibson can't help being anti-Semitic — it's part of Christian culture, pagan historian says

By now everyone knows that Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite , at least when he's drinking. On Sunday the Pagan Temple blogged: "The won...

9/11 conspiracists unhappy with Oliver Stone's new movie "World Trade Center"

Oliver Stone, once the darling of the Conspiracy-Nut fringe for his conspiratorial movies JFK and Nixon , has now found himself their paria...

The Worshipful Master's New Clothes

The Worshipful Master's New Clothes by W:.Tim Bryce, PM, MPS An updated version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Chr...

One Happy World

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So g...

Faith healer restores eyeballs to empty sockets, causes missing hands to re-grow on arm stumps

You'd think this blog's raisson d'etre is to bash fundamentalist Christians, as much as I've written about them lately. It...

8-year old remembers his own World War II death

Eight-year old James Leininger remembers his past. That is, the past of another James — Lt. James McCready Huston, a World War II fighter pi...

8 things Southern Baptists hate about Freemasonry

In 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a new publication called A Closer Look at Freemasonry . The pamphlet expands on the eight ...

Rave reviews for A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly has finally opened across the country. Read GrouchoGandhi's superb review of what he calls "perfect" and ...

New alcohol Prohibition urged by Southern Baptist resolution

Originally published at Born Jesus In June, the Southern Baptist Convention met in Greensboro, N.C. They overwhelmingly passed a resolution ...

The Masonic Revolution continues: Newly constituted Grand Lodge of All England announced

On July 1, 2006, the Grand Lodge of All England was duly constituted. Earlier this month, a new Grand Lodge in the Philippines was also con...

India's blog-blocking was "technological error," official says

India today said their blog-blocking was a "technological error" caused by their trying to stifle just a handful of blogs, not al...

God doesn't take sides

It's no secret that I'm not a big fan of organized religion of any kind, or the preachers that push them. So it's with a certain...

Another Alabama Mason quits Blue Lodge in protest of racial and religious intolerance

Bro. Aaron of the blog Seeker's Observations , recently demitted (resigned) from his Blue Lodge. He had been a Mason less than a year. H...

The Burning Taper blog celebrates 250 posts

The Burning Taper blog passed a milestone of sorts yesterday by publishing its 250th post. I didn't notice it at the time, but it's...

Shriners ban water except for bathing

The 1947 Project has spent the last year immersing itself in the history and lore of Los Angeles, circa 1947, digging up old newspaper arti...

Anal-retentive veggie-counting censors run amuck in India, Pakistan and China

The clock of Progress may have slowed in the U.S. during the current administration, but in places like India and Pakistan, it seems the cal...

Update: Indian blog ban spreads to other blogging sites

Here's an update on the blog-banning in India, reprinted from Nancy Gandhi's blog Metroblogging Chennai . According to a report on N...

India bans blogs: Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blocked

On Monday Boing Boing reported that last Friday the nation of India enacted a ban on blogs. Specifically, the government ordered that Int...

Christian rewrites "Da Vinci Code" ending; Robert Langdon converts to Christian fundamentalism

Remember Josh the Baptist and his myrmidon anti-Masonic pals at Practical Theological Discussions blog? One of his fellow fundamentalists, ...

Quick! Read this story while it's still news!

How long does it take for new news to become old news? Thirty-six hours , tomorrow's New York Times will report. The research paper, wr...

Fizz Fountain of Diet Coke and Mentos!

What could you do with 101 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke and 523 Mentos? If you're as theatrically creative as Stephen Voltz and Fritz ...

White House design based on Ireland's first Masonic lodge building

The first public building to be erected in Washington, D.C., was The White House, originally called "the President's House." A...

Filipino Masons declare independence, form new Grand Lodge

Masonic brethren in the Philippines this week announced that two Masonic districts, comprising nine lodges, have declared independence and f...

Muslim Conspiracy Theory: What do Freemasonry, Hugh Hefner, punk rock, the Pill, Karl Max, Charles Darwin and international bankers have in common?

I'm not sure what to make of this. In tomorrow's online edition of the Greater Kashmir newspaper there is an article titled ...