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Quivering Daughters
Quivering Daughters

Literally Noir

The streets of the city are always dark, especially when it’s raining. And they just put a fresh coat of grime down 67th street. It got all over my office window. Not that you can see anything out my office window anyway. And if you could, you wouldn’t want to. I’ve seen it [...]

Happy National Grammar Day!

March 4 is National Grammar Day! Hooray!

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to do a hilarious hagiography like I did last year, or much of anything really, being too busy correcting grammar for a living. So here’s the next best thing: What would a grammar holiday be without some rousing choruses of Schoolhouse [...]

Heavens! A St. Peter Joke with Good Theology!

Good heavens! Rev. Bosco Peters of Liturgy.co.nz has gone and found it. It’s a St. Peter joke (you know, this guy dies and goes to the pearly gates and he meets St. Peter and St. Peter says….) that actually has good theology. Well, for a St. Peter joke. Have a gander:

A man [...]

Five People You Won't Meet in Heaven (And One You Might)

by Eric M. Pazdziora

Many different people believe that if you are a Christian you will go to heaven… If this is so, that means that Fred Phelps will go to heaven. When you consider that non-Christians don’t, that would mean that Phelps would go but not Princess Di and M. Gandhi. Is [...]

Rudolph's Revenge: A Fractured Christmas Fable

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“Yes,” my visitor told me, glowering over the steam of his warm Christmas toddy.  “The whole thing was the fault of the reindeer.”

“Reindeer?”  I said.

“You know: Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.  But it’s amazing how many [...]

Merry Kitschmas: Tacky Nativity Scenes!

‘Tis the season: On the first day of Kitschmas, The Crescat gave to us the Tackiest Nativity Scene Contest!

You know things are going to get interesting when they start out like this:

That’s not even the half of it. Follow the link above [...]

More from the Annoying Art and Music Files: Atheism is Kitschy Too!

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If you’ve followed my blogging (here or elsewhere), you’ll have noticed that I have a weakness for poking fun at bad kitschy “art” that’s created in the name of Christianity. (The Christian Album Covers gallery being a prime example.) I also sometimes like to point out how atheist attacks on Christianity tend to [...]

Christian Album Covers: The Hall of Silliness

This is an oldie but goodie from my archives; it also got featured on Revelife.com to general hilarity. It’s been on my mind again as I’m trying to decide what to put on the cover of my forthcoming CD. I can assure you, it won’t be anything like these….

As long as [...]

The Tale of Mr. Fiddle

want to be famous!” said young Mister Fiddle. “I’m tired of feeling so humble and little. I want to have glory, and honor, and fame, And have everyone notice when they hear my name.”

So he went off to college and got a degree, Thinking this would impress them as sure as could [...]

The Modern Evangelical Really Short Catechism

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It's a travesty

(Originally posted: October 2004)

This travesty sprang from an off-the-cuff comment made a while back, which might have been based on something I heard somewhere else; I never keep track.  The only irreverence intended is to the lack of deep theological thought among many modern church folks.  [...]