Category Archives: religion

Lunchbox: Death battle over between life enhancers

October 19, 2009 – 12:25 pm

Feeling healthy again?: A super-bitchy major health care provider and its super-bitchy nemesis insurer have finally agreed to disagree. With the end of the Norton-Anthem dispute — in which services between the two were halted July 1, after Norton demanded double-digit increases in reimbursements and Anthem said no — comes reinstatement of patients’ full, hard-earned [...]

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KY Pastor Nixes Jackson Mural, Fun

October 6, 2009 – 12:14 pm

Apparently some people still need closure on this, the death of President Michael Jackson::

WTVQ-TV in Lexington reports that Owingsville First Church of God Pastor Lowell Rice heard about the mural at his church. Rice approached the school officials to complain about the mural, questioning whether Jackson is an “appropriate role model.”
[Visual arts teacher Lorraine] Leadingham [...]

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Thou Shalt Not Smirk: Atheists Drive Mechanical Ark to Creation Museum

August 12, 2009 – 7:03 pm

How in the wide wide world of sports did we miss this?
PETERSBURG, Ky., Aug. 11, 2009 – While no one was sure what to expect when ideologies clashed on Friday, staff at the Creation Museum were pleased overall (despite some minor incidents) with how well the visit from the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) went. In [...]

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Rev. Pagano: “We’re on,” for Open Carry

June 25, 2009 – 11:44 am

Upon learning that this Saturday’s “Open Carry Church Service” at New Bethel Church might fail to live up to its promise, my heart sank a little. According to a TIME article by former LEO Guru Cary Stemle, the church had yet to secure an insurance policy on the event, and would therefore be just a [...]

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Baptists to Women: “Cook something already…”

June 23, 2009 – 12:21 pm

There are few things we here at Fatlip love more than time travel.
It’s a miraculous thing –  you start in one epoch and then, by virtue of reading the turgid bullshit spewed by Mary Kassian, a “professor” of women’s studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (aka NAMBLA), you’re suddenly transported back to an era where [...]

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Land of the Lost, KY Style

June 10, 2009 – 1:25 pm

So that Creation Museum we all try in vain to forget about was resurrected on the front page of today’s Courier-Journal – something about a record-breaking number of attendees, or how cavemen and dinosaurs were awesome BFFs, or something of that nature — and, wouldn’t you know it: A teleological debate hath come about in [...]

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Atheists “Believe” in Obama (For Now)

June 9, 2009 – 12:42 pm

Wahhhh… there is no god… life is meaningless… wahhh… But hark! Politico is paying attention to us, we the persecuted non-believers!
Nathan Bupp, director of communications for the Center for Inquiry, says that many nonbelievers view Obama’s invocations of faith as nothing more than a “symbolic gesture” used to aid his quest for social justice.
“There [...]

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