Wat Rong Khun Buddhist Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. As if the amazing exterior weren’t enough, inside there’s a painting that blends the worlds of The Matrix, Avatar, Superman, Transformers, and other film legend. [via]
Read moreAndy McMillan’s PTL shows what remains from Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker’s iconic televangelist community. [via]
Read moreAndy McMillan’s PTL shows what remains from Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker’s iconic televangelist community. [via]
Read more2010 IN PICTURES: A penitent from “La Sed” brotherhood, walks to the church to take part in a procession in Seville, Southern Spain, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Read more2010 IN PICTURES: A penitent from “La Sed” brotherhood, walks to the church to take part in a procession in Seville, Southern Spain, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Read moreWilliamsburg Hipsters Are Finding Jesus
Williamsburg Hipsters Are Finding Jesus
From New York Magazine’s Daily Intel:
The Reverend, a friend of Sufjan Stevens, is in a band, and the aisles are reportedly filled with artists. Live jazz accompanies the ceremony, but “the holy hipsters are serious about Christ.”
He sings, he dances, now he and his friends are bringing Christianity to the cool kids – is there anything Sufjan Stevens can’t do?
Religion Is Like A Penis
Read moreBaby Preacher is the craziest thing you’ll see today. Unless of course you saw it already. In which case I’m sure it was the craziest thing you saw that day. (WATCH NOW) [Thanks to Bart for terrifying me with the link.] (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Read morePope Knew of Sex Abuse of Wisconsin Deaf Boys, Did Nothing
Pope Knew of Sex Abuse of Wisconsin Deaf Boys, Did Nothing
If all of this is true, if Catholics are willing to forgive their Pope for ignoring cries for help from sexually-abused children, then is there anything he couldn’t get away with in the name of the church? I think we can all agree, outside of cold-blooded murder, there isn’t any act more unforgivable and wrong than playing a role in the abuse of a child. When you’ve reached the point where even that won’t be held against you, ‘above the law’ doesn’t even begin to describe the power you’ve summoned over your indoctrinated.
You can mock other beliefs as cults, laugh at all the far-out Xenu stories you want – from where I’m sitting, all of this sounds at least AS crazy, if not 10x crazier than any portion of L.Ron’s Scientology canon.