Archive for the ‘Religious scammers’ Category

FIR against rationalist for questioning ‘miracle’ Man files complaint against Sanal Edamaruku who dismissed water dripping from Jesus statue as due to capillary action, saying he had made statements against the Church Jyoti Punwani Mumbai was the birthplace of the Indian   Rationalist Association (IRA), founded in 1930 by Mumbaikar R P Paranjpe.   Almost [...]

Evil Eye Removal $50, Credit Cards Accepted Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, haredim can now get a deal on evil eye removal. Do you think the machashayfa next door is hexing you? You’re a phone call away from removing her curse. A mere $50 will do it. And your kabbalist savior [...]

[As previously blogged, conspiracism or conspiracy thinking and religious fundamentalism go hand in hand. Both are irrational world views. Conspiracism, like religion, provides a false sense of enlightenment and "... a thread of insistence exists that only certain, truly enlightened people can see the truth behind the secret plots. Most conspiracies are, so the thinking goes, [...]

Harry Potter Teaching Kids Witchcraft Because America Bows To Pagan God by David Badash on September 16, 2011 Harry Potter is teaching kids witchcraft and America now bows to a Pagan god, warns Pastor John Hagee in his TV special, (apparently not from New York,) “Faith Under Fire.” And what is that “Pagan god?” Why, [...]

Baptising Beck ‎Wednesday, ‎14 ‎September ‎2011, ‏‎5:11:40 PM | Richard Bartholomew Warren Throckmorton has the latest on David Barton and Glenn Beck: David Barton is feeling the criticism from Worldview Weekend founder Brannon Howse. Today, Barton responded to some of those criticisms as he framed them. Howse is particularly concerned that David Barton’s partnership with [...]

Tim LaHaye Against “Trivializing” Bible Prophecy The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the “Left Behind” series of Christian prophecy novels, said [Harold] Camping “trivializes the very serious study of Bible prophecy by ignoring Jesus’ statement that everyone seems to know except him, and that is that no man knows the day nor the hour” that [...]