The Jehovah's Witnesses redefine irony : Pharyngula

Is atheism on the march?

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Critical review of the latest "Chick Track"

New Chick Tract--"Stinky"

So.  We've got a new Chick Tract.  (eye roll)

This one is trying to scare the young children of "unbelievers".  Underlying messages:

• Halloween is Satan's birthday.
• Celebrating it makes Satan happy and is a form of Satan worship.
• You will encounter real demons while you go trick-or-treating.
• Angels like it if you hand out Chick Tracts to trick-or-treaters, and if you do, they'll protect you from Satan with their superpowers.
• You're going to live in Hell with smelly, mean demon bullies if you don't accept Jesus as your personal savior.

Need I even mention how sick it is to manipulate children in this way?

Why don't these people just worry about their own families and leave others alone?

'Dan Rather Reports' Exposes Coordinated Effort by the Catholic Church to Protect Assets From Abuse Victims

DALLAS, June 24/PRNewswire/ -- Next week, "Dan Rather Reports" investigates how the Roman Catholic Church has been hiding and shielding assets from victims of priest abuse. Some say the Church is behaving more like a big corporation than a sacred institution.

From the Vatican on down, the church has vowed to make peace with hundreds of victims of a decades-long epidemic of sex abuse by its priests. But "Dan Rather Reports" found evidence that the church has done just the opposite: Wealthy U.S. Dioceses from California to Delaware have claimed to be broke and have filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying damages; Bishops have exploited arcane corporate laws to shield church assets from liability; and, in San Diego, parish priests have been caught literally hiding money in safes, according to court records....'Dan Rather Reports' Exposes Coordinated Effort by the Catholic Church to Protect Assets From Abuse Victims

Police: Girl raped, then relocated

...The victim said Phelps told her she would be put up for "church discipline," where parishioners go before the congregation to apologize for their sins.

She asked why. "Pastor Phelps then said that (Willis) may have been 99 percent responsible, but I needed to confess my 1 percent guilt in the situation," the victim told the police.

"He told me that I should be happy that I didn't live in Old Testament times because I would have been stoned."...

Police: Girl raped, then relocated - Page 2 | Concord Monitor

MN Father Refuses Chemo Treatment « Liveshots

MN Father Refuses Chemo Treatment « Liveshots

BBC News - Teenage Jehovah's Witness 'died after refusing blood'

BBC News - Teenage Jehovah's Witness 'died after refusing blood'

The Skeptical Review Online - Garden Of Eden Not A Historical Place / Part One - Author Brett Palmer

The Skeptical Review Online - Garden Of Eden Not A Historical Place / Part One - Author Brett Palmer