Eric Scheske

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More Terrible Than Kali

Celebrate it, claim it's normal, and later we'll somehow institutionalize it. Link [http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/06/08/health/c01060705_01.txt]. Excerpts: > They call her ''Ana.'' She is a role model to some, a goddess to others -

One Born Every Minute

Prosperity theology fails yet again: > A man posing as a government employee approached a business owner and said he needed to take soil samples from the property. > The next day, the suspect returned with a metal detector claiming he found gold or silver in the soil. > The

Female God Incarnate

> A new edition of the Gospels of the Bible for the first time shows Christ as a woman, named Judith Christ of Nazareth, and God as female. In all other respects, the classic texts of the Gospels remain unchanged. > The publisher, LBI Institute, has released this new Bible

Ban Bible from U.K. Hospitals?

> Hospital bosses in Britain were meeting on Friday to discuss a controversial move to ban Bibles from patients' bedsides after they were decreed not only insensitive to other religions but also a health risk. . . > . . . The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, which runs the three main hospitals

No Swearing in the Netherlands?

> The name of the Lord may no longer be taken in vain in the Dutch village of Staphorst. > Staphorst, in the so-called Dutch "bible belt" of eastern towns where religion holds sway, approved a ban on swearing by 13-4 council votes. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/

Wiccan Persecution

Get Religion wrote a nice piece about an Indiana judge who entered an order that prohibits a Wiccan couple from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." Get Religion responds: > This is an important parents' rights case and is, in a strange way, very

Naked Zorro

> It sounds almost comical, an exhibitionist dressed only in a Zorro mask and white sneakers following women around the streets of Doylestown. It is not only the talk of the town, but it has become big business. At Finney's, t-Shirts are being sold for $10 a piece

Ah, Grasshopper, Much You Don't Understand

> Five Thai Buddhist monks have been defrocked and fined after a brawl with monks from a nearby temple, police and newspapers said Tuesday. > The street fight was the culmination of years of antagonism between monks from the two temples who had often exchanged curses, insults and rude gestures

Catholic and Naked

Here's a great blurb about Katie Holmes: "devout Catholic" who strips for public viewing and is Tom Cruise's "lover." Link [http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/42732004.htm]. Excerpt: > Katie Holmes says she would happily strip off on-screen. > Devout Catholic

Best Story of the Weekend

The Church of England will allow gay ministers to marry . . . if they agree not to have sex. The C of E gets funnier every day. Link [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=820]. Excerpt: > Homosexual priests in the Church of England will be allowed to “marry” their boyfriends under a