Scary self-proclaimed Christian 'prophet' Cindy Jacobs says gays in the US military caused bird deaths

Just in case you feel that life is too short to sit through the full, deranged, 12 minutes 44 seconds of nonsense, here's the core of her argument:

"According to biblical principles, marriage is between a man and a woman , so we have to say “what happens when a nation makes a decision that’s against God’s principles?” Well, often what happens is that nature itself will begin to talk to us – for instance, violent storms, flooding. And you know there are actually some patterns that you can see where a nation will make a decision that is contrary to the principles of God and after that there is some kind of answer that God gives, being the God of creation, the God who created nature, but we don’t always understand what He’s saying.

Well, there’s something interesting we have been watching – let’s talk about this Arkansas pattern and say, could it be a pattern? We’re going to watch and see. But the blackbirds fell to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas, well the Governor of Arkansas’ name is Beebe. And also, there was something put out of Arkansas called Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by a former Governor, this was proposed, Bill Clinton. As so, could there be a connection between this passage [Hosea 4] and now that we’ve had the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell where people now legally in the United States have broken restraints with the Scripture because the Scripture says in Romans 1 that homosexuality is not allowed.

It could be because we have said it’s okay for people who commit these kinds of acts to be recognized in our military for the first time in our history, there is a potential that there is something that actually happened in the land where a hundred thousand drum fish died and also where these birds just fell out of the air."

Bonkers.

Happy Feast of the Circumcision of Baby Jesus

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Circumcision by Francesco de Goya

Aside from being New Year's Day, 1st January was traditionally the day that marked the circumcision of Baby Jesus - perhaps one of the lesser-known of the Christian feast-days. And if you have a little time to spare, why not read up on the subsequent adventures of the Sacred Foreskin (or foreskins - don't ask me how that happened, I assume it must've been a miracle)?

The Pope and Aids | Ben Goldacre

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Ratzinger has proclaimed that “The most effective presence on the front in the battle against HIV/AIDS is in fact the Catholic Church and her institutions.” This is a ludicrous claim. They’re the only major influential international political organisation that actively tells people not to do something that works, on a huge scale.  Their own figures show that their numbers are growing in Africa, even faster than the population does.

Read the full article at badscience.net

 

The Catholic church believes ordaining women priests is as grave a crime as child rape

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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (or the Inquisition, as they used to be called) have decided, in their document the Substantive Norms, that attempting to ordain a woman as a priest is every bit as terrible a crime as a priest abusing their position to sexually assault a child.

Clearly this is offensive, misogynist nonsense and is designed to protect the patriarchal power structures of the church. And as you would expect, sane people the world over are outraged by the proclamation.

Of course, if you happen to live in the UK, your taxes are going to fund the Pope's state visit to Britain later this year to spread more superstition and intolerance - you might want to check out the link below.

Vote Cameron, Get Fundamentalist Homophobic Nutters

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This woman is likely to be a Conservative MP after the next Thursday and a 'high-flier' within the party.  As head of the so-called Centre for Social Justice, she is credited with shaping many Conservative 'social policies' [sic].

She is also a Fundamentalist Christian, believes in demons and founded a church that tried to 'cure' gay people by praying for their 'demons' to be cast out.

The prospect of this kind of superstitious and bigoted woman™ having any influence at all on the government of our country is a scary one...

Read the Observer article here

Jesus found in a frying pan

Praise the lard!

By GUY PATRICK

Published: 12 Mar 2010

DOZY Toby Elles cheated death in a pan fire as he tried to fry bacon - then found the face of JESUS burned in the cooking fat.

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Relief ... Toby shows off his pan
Caters News Agency

Toby, 22, put on the rasher for a late snack, but fell asleep on the couch.

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Holy toast ... this image drew lots of attention when first reported in 2005

He woke up an hour later after smelling Holy smoke and saw the meat was ablaze. When he moved the charred bacon, he spotted the Lord's face in his frying pan.

Bank worker Tony, of Salford, Gtr Manchester, said: "It's a miracle. But for the smoke, it could have been a very bad situation.

"I'll never clean the pan, I'll keep it forever."

 

Michael Jackson's 'face' on baby scan | Telegraph

An image captured in a baby scan has been claimed to be the 'double' of Michael Jackson.

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Photo: NORTH NEWS AND PICTURES

Parents-to-be Dawn Kelley and William Hickman were looking at the ultrasound scan of their unborn baby when they realised it looked like the late pop singer.

Mr Hickman, 29, a window cleaner, said: “I showed my daughter Ami, who’s six, and she saw it straight away, so I thought 'well if she can see it too it’s not just me seeing things’.”

Mother-of-six Miss Kelley, 34, went for her 20-week scan at Sunderland Royal as normal last month, but doctors could not see the foetus’s stomach or diaphragm.

A few weeks later she was sent to Grindon Lane Walk in Centre for a closer look.

The more powerful scanner there is normally used to examine internal organs so the images it produces much more detailed.

Mr Hickman said: “We were looking at the pictures again, and I just saw Jacko there.

“None of us are really Michael Jackson fans. I mean I like him, but we’re not crazy about him or anything.”

The children Chris, 16, Amanda, 15, Jason, 13, Alisha, 10, Ami-Lee, six, and Kye, four, all see the famous singer’s face in the scan photo too.

But the new family member will not be called Michael – the couple already know they are having a girl.

Miss Kelley is 24 weeks pregnant and due to give birth to her daughter in March. She said: “I’ve had plenty of scans before and none of the photos have ever looked like this one. It’s a bit spooky really.

“But it is my seventh child, and they say seven is a mythical number.”

Funny that, I always thought seven was a very real number, not a mythical one...