# Stupid Religious news of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132 "2013-09-06T00:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/21 "2013-09-06T17:54:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > [How 'bout this link?](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Fchat%2F2656942%2Fposts&ei=SwsqUpylOoaIygHu3IDwAw&usg=AFQjCNEQx_944P01atSI0AbhUHNgkZUtgA&sig2=4ou3fRAyRjydwVKFPZykZg&bvm=bv.51773540,d.aWc&cad=rjt) Really? You had to go to a Freeper site to find the story? [Here’s a version from those commie bastards over at NPR.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/15/132937015/michigan-woman-recreates-a-masterpiece-with-lint-from-her-dryer) Really, the story is more about folk art than religion, though. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/22 "2013-09-06T19:20:03Z")
And she did cheat by buying towels in the colors she needed. God doesn’t approve of cheating, which is why it’s in Ripley’s and not the Louvre. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/23 "2013-09-06T19:31:09Z")
I’ve got two… First up this afternoon is [Dana Perino explaining](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/fox-news-host-tired-of-atheists-demands-for-freedom-from-religion-they-dont-have-to-live-here/) the fact that if you don’t like the Pledge of Allegiance, you should probably leave the country. I’m not giving Fox the clicks, so I linked to a Raw Story post. Second up is a Documentary called Mission Congo which tells the story of [Mister Pat Robertson](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/05/mission-congo-pat-robertson-aid-rwanda?CMP=twt_gu) raising millions of dollars on the back of the Rwandan genocide for a non existent aid program ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/24 "2013-09-06T22:37:02Z")
Only in America. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/25 "2013-09-06T22:49:08Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > Only in America. You only get to say that if you are an American. And it’s probably not true anyway. The world has a long history of religious leaders being out for their own benefit at the expense of poor believers. May I direct your attention to the pre-reformation Catholic church as one example? Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/26 "2013-09-06T22:57:11Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > You only get to say that if you are an American. > > Roddy Like hell. Listening to that schmuck is like listening to a Nazi white supremacist. He’d be in jail in any western civilized country. In the U.S. his followers cream their pants while babbling in tongues. If you don’t like foreigners complaining about American Christians preaching murder, as is their wont, stand up in solidarity with Islamic countries killing gays, and Russia turning gays into criminals and vowing to seize their children. Never say a word against it. But OK. Only in America and Kenya. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/27 "2013-09-06T23:00:41Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It’s a week or two old, but Pat Robertson’s claim that gays have special razor-edged rings they use to cut people when they shake hands, in order to spread AIDS, must certainly rank as one of the stupidest religious-based claims of the century. Is there a link for this? I’d be curious to view the actual words he used, or see the video clip. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/28 "2013-09-06T23:07:46Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Second up is a Documentary called Mission Congo which tells the story of [Mister Pat Robertson](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/05/mission-congo-pat-robertson-aid-rwanda?CMP=twt_gu) raising millions of dollars on the back of the Rwandan genocide for a non existent aid program It seems like if you claim to be christian enough, you can get away with anything in america. Good use of tax-exemptness, though, I’m sure, and it’s clear how much these churches deserve both it and “respect”! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/29 "2013-09-06T23:14:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Is there a link for this? I’d be curious to view the actual words he used, or see the video clip. [Here you go.](http://theweek.com/article/index/248905/watch-anderson-cooper-mocks-pat-robertsons-gay-aids-rings-conspiracy) Someone still doesn’t understand that once you put it out there, you can’t call it back. > [@](#): > > The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson launched in 1961, apparently thought its 83-year-old founding patriarch went a little too far, **editing that section out of the online broadcast of the show and scrambling to remove all versions from YouTube,** according to Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch — which was kind enough to save the clip for posterity. ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/30 "2013-09-07T05:49:41Z")
Let’s be real, if they didn’t edit it out somebody would lambast them for still airing it and re-airing it into eternity. What are they supposed to do? I mean, other than set Robertson out to pasture already. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/31 "2013-09-07T08:44:49Z")
The “out to pasture” idea is worth a try, though. Why don’t we give it a shot and see what happens? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/32 "2013-09-07T11:13:02Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Here you go.](http://theweek.com/article/index/248905/watch-anderson-cooper-mocks-pat-robertsons-gay-aids-rings-conspiracy) > Someone still doesn’t understand that once you put it out there, you can’t call it back. Thanks for the link! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/33 "2013-09-12T04:26:36Z")
[Terry Jones’](http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/terryjones1.jpg) evil twin is baaaack! > [@](#): > > MULBERRY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida pastor was arrested Wednesday as he drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with kerosene-soaked Qurans to a park, where the pastor had said he was planning to burn 2,998 of the Muslim holy books— one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. > > Sheriff’s deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., 44, each on a felony charge of unlawful conveyance of fuel. Jones had said he was heading to a nearby park in Mulberry to burn the Qurans on Wednesday, the 12th anniversary of the attacks. Sheriff’s officials said that Jones was also charged with unlawful open-carry of a firearm, a misdemeanor, and that Sapp faces a charge of having no valid registration for the trailer. > > Both were being booked Wednesday night into the Polk County jail, according to Sheriff Grady Judd. > … > Jones is the pastor of a small evangelical Christian church. He first gained attention in 2010 when he planned to burn a Quran on the anniversary of 9/11, although he eventually called it off. His congregation did burn the Muslim holy book in March 2011 and last year he promoted an anti-Muslim film. All three incidents sparked violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan. > > The most violent protest happened after the 2011 Quran burning as hundreds of protesters stormed a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including four Nepalese guards. > > Jones has repeatedly ignored pleas from the U.S. military asking him not to stage his protests. Military officials say his actions put American and Western troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere in danger. > … > An Egyptian court convicted Jones, along with seven Egyptian Coptic Christians, in absentia, sentencing them to death on charges linked to the film. The ruling was seen as largely symbolic because Jones and the other defendants live outside of Egypt. [http://news.yahoo.com/fla-pastor-arrested-could-burn-qurans-223237072.html](http://news.yahoo.com/fla-pastor-arrested-could-burn-qurans-223237072.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/34 "2013-09-12T04:28:00Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > Only in America. Or Uganda. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/35 "2013-09-12T05:16:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > A Michigan woman has recreated the last supper – savior and all – out of laundry lint. > No, it’s not some weird new spin (cycle) on the Da Vinci code… but a massive painting 14 feet long and 4 feet high – and it took Laura Bell about 200 hours to make (not to mention nearly 800 hours of laundry loads). > > And now, it’s a proud new addition to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! collection. > > Ripley’s spokesman Tim O’Brien says the painting is everything Ripley likes in a piece of art. > > “We have smaller lint art pieces in our collection, but what hit us about this one is its immense size,” he told me. “That combined with the amazing color she was able to get from natural lint to the details of the characters make this one great piece of art, albeit a very non-mainstream piece artistic endeavor.” I agree with **Skammer**. And I’m not sure of the lady’s faith and “The Da vinci code” can bite me, but the real [del]turtle[/del] Leonardo was more likely to have been a master parodist or was trolling the church, “Why yes, my dear king Francis, did you noticed? I made the human brain creating Adam!, Yes, that was Mary Magdalene in The Last Supper, and most of the girls were men in the roof of the church! The pope hasn’t noticed yet!”, “Hah! Good one Leo!” (Francis high fives Leonardo). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/36 "2013-09-18T20:29:43Z")
[Rev. Scott Lively](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-obama-antichrist-working-satanic-gays-bring-about-apocalypse): Obama is the Antichrist, and is working with the Satanic gays to bring on the Apocalypse. He is, however, going to cancel all debt and bring peace to the Middle East. So there’s that. Set your calendars to September 30, 2015. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132/37 "2013-09-18T20:51:53Z")
You might be stupid, though pious, if: [You blame the restructuring of funding for your Ark Park on Obamacare.](http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2013/09/god-moves-in-my.html#more) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-religious-news-of-the-day/668132.md?page=1)