# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 52
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1021 "2025-10-22T19:08:03Z")
Not a specific eligious fuck, and not exacty _in the NEWS_ as such, [this](https://medium.com/@hrnews1/study-religious-us-states-have-higher-rates-of-gun-violence-illiteracy-obesity-incarceration-90beb78ea6f8) fairly thorough _Medium_ article suggests that religion, in general, seems to fuck things up. Things we consider not-so-desirable tend to correlate with areas of greater religiosity. > [@The Honest Assessment](#): > > The data shows highly religious states cluster negative outcomes — obesity, lower education, gun violence, incarceration. Less religious states show better health and educational outcomes. State IQ inversely correlates with religiosity at r = −0.55. National religiosity predicts lower math and science performance at r = −0.65 to −0.74. > > But here’s what it might mean. > > High religiosity concentrates in economically disadvantaged regions with poor educational infrastructure. Poverty drives both high religiosity and poor outcomes. Does religiosity cause poverty, or does poverty cause religiosity? The answer probably involves feedback loops, not simple causation. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1022 "2026-01-15T03:47:10Z")
Replying to myself once again: The shooting had nothing to do with Greg Locke’s preaching. It was aimed at his stepson, who’s been in other kinds of trouble. > **[2024 shooting at Greg Locke’s home wasn’t persecution against controversial...](https://julieroys.com/2024-shooting-at-greg-lockes-home-wasnt-persecution-against-controversial-pastor-but-an-attack-directed-at-stepson/)** > > Prosecutors say a 2024 shooting at Pastor Greg Locke’s home in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee wasn’t persecution but a dispute targeting his stepson. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1023 "2026-02-26T01:10:43Z")
Not in the news, but I don’t know where else to put this. I can’t find a recent, relevant “crazy religious shit” thread. In the mail today, I received the short book called _National Sunday Law_ by A. Jan Marcussen. I searched and it doesn’t appear that this book that has supposedly been printed over 40 million times has ever been mentioned on the Dope. Sounds like the federal government will soon be mandating we go to church and then relax on Sundays. That sounds goofy, but with the current admin…maybe not. BTW, anyone else receive this in the mail? Anyone want my copy? 🙂 > **[Jan Marcussen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Marcussen)** > > Divisions > A. Jan Marcussen is a preacher, and marriage counselor. He is most known for views and promotion, through writing and other methods, of eschatology and the seventh-day Sabbath. Marcussen has offered to pay 5 U.S. dollars to anyone who can find biblical proof of a Sunday Sabbath. > Marcussen’s writings includes books by Amazing Truth Publications: Two Months to Live; Cousin Henry Potter (and the Terrible Time Machine); and National Sunday Law. Seven Secrets of Family Happiness is publi... ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1024 "2026-02-26T01:54:24Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Sounds like the federal government will soon be mandating we go to church and then relax on Sundays. No can do; jail please. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1025 "2026-02-26T04:12:07Z")
But…but, Sunday is the day I go whoring 😯 ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1026 "2026-02-26T04:22:49Z")
He’s a Seventh-Day Adventist, so he thinks that would be very bad thing, since the real Sabbath is on Saturday and observing it on Sunday is the work of the guy with the horns and pointy stick. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1027 "2026-02-26T06:57:09Z")
I could see where some people who hold to a strict Saturday sabbath might be a bit freaked out at the thought of mandating Sunday church attendance, as some of the more RWNJ folks in the current administration think they can do. Is it this book? Do you have any idea how you got on a mailing list for something like this? > **[National Sunday Law: Jan Marcussen: 9780912145082: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/National-Sunday-Law-Jan-Marcussen/dp/0912145080)** > > National Sunday Law \[Jan Marcussen\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. National Sunday Law I also heard earlier today that Jay Bakker got a call from a TMZ reporter wanting to confirm a rumor that his father, one James Orsen Bakker AKA Jim Bakker, was deceased. As I write this, he is not. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1028 "2026-02-26T13:46:55Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > He’s a Seventh-Day Adventist, so he thinks that would be very bad thing, since the real Sabbath is on Saturday and observing it on Sunday is the work of the guy with the horns and pointy stick You have such a slim chance of picking the correct flavor of religion and if you pick wrong, you go to hell. “Die, heretic!” as Emo Philips would say. That’s why I don’t even try. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Do you have any idea how you got on a mailing list for something like this? The reason this has been printed over 40 million times isn’t because folks are paying $10 for it on Amazon. Someone is buying them in bulk and mailing to everyone. It was addressed to “current resident”. Maybe Gideon doesn’t just give out Bibles? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1029 "2026-02-26T16:30:48Z")
If God expected us to rest on Sunday He wouldn’t have invented football. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1030 "2026-02-26T16:57:38Z")
Amen! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1031 "2026-02-26T16:58:31Z")
Or hiking! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1032 "2026-02-26T17:00:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Amen! Praise the Lord and pass the football! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1033 "2026-02-26T17:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Marcussen has offered to pay 5 U.S. dollars to anyone who can find biblical proof of a Sunday Sabbath. Undisputed winner of the award for Most Chintzy Challenge. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1034 "2026-02-26T17:18:36Z")
That made me LOL as well! Your award nails it. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1035 "2026-02-26T19:02:09Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Undisputed winner of the award for Most Chintzy Challenge. First published in 1983, apparently. I was hoping for 1883 (or even 1933) so that $5 would be a significant sum and the book was just never updated. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1036 "2026-02-27T00:51:46Z")
Last fall, one of my Facebook friends got a mass mailing from IIRC Boys Town that not only included a calendar, mailing labels, and notepads, but, as she put it, A FREAKIN’ PAIR OF SOCKS! She has no idea how they got her address, because she had never donated to them, nor had her parents, to her knowledge, whose house she inherited. FWIW, I finally got one of those random Jehovah’s Witness handwritten letters, which they were doing since COVID instead of going door to door, a few months ago. I put it in the recycle bin. I donated $500 to MSF/DWB after the 2004 tsunami, and I even remember doing it on the evening of December 31st, so I could get the tax deducation. I started getting big press packs with things designed for triptych displays and the like, and after the 2nd or 3rd one contacted them and told them to use their money to help people in serious medical danger. Never got another one (and I’ve donated smaller amounts a few times since). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1037 "2026-02-27T01:11:58Z")
I’ve stopped donating to several orgs that then go full-press court on you for more money. I feel like some of them pert near spend my entire donation trying to get me to donate more. Thanks, but no thanks. > [@Folacin](#): > > First published in 1983, apparently. I was hoping for 1883 (or even 1933) so that $5 would be a significant sum and the book was just never updated. Ha, I also had that same thought. Nope, 1983. And to my 13 year old self at the time, $5 was really cool (that would fill up my dirtbike fuel tank!). But, you know, I was 13. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1038 "2026-02-27T01:31:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I donated $500 to MSF/DWB after the 2004 tsunami I donated about 10 years after that, and for the next few years I received enough reusable shopping bags to ensure that every vehicle in my household now has at least three of the things stashed inside. I think they were some significant percentage of recycled plastic, so I guess that’s good? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1039 "2026-02-27T01:34:58Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I donated $500 to MSF/DWB after the 2004 tsunami I donated to some U of Minnesota fund (forget which one) in memory of my uncle. After about 4 years of updates on what good work they were doing I finally called them to let them know it was a one time thing. The mail stopped, and I think they ended up money ahead on my donation. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/1040 "2026-02-27T03:27:34Z")
Several years ago, a relative by marriage who was a deacon in the Catholic church requested memorial donations be made to a certain Catholic charity. I, too contacted them and told them the same thing, and haven’t seen anything else since. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=53)