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Thread #88465 Message #1662265
Posted By: Amos
05-Feb-06 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
Subject: RE: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
The Onion, Teribus, has published many parodies of religion, depicting God as a disgruntled employer, and so on. A small sample:
Well, it's been a long, hard road, but I'm finally almost finished with Cosmysticism, the new religion I've been working on for the past year or so. And I must say, I'm pretty proud of how it's turned out. It's a delicate blend of love and wrath, mystery and science, history and fantasy
JERUSALEM Jesus announced that Allah has revealed Himself to Him through the holy words of the Quran.
LOS ANGELES According to a report released Monday by the American Institute of Religions, the Church of Scientology, once one of the fastest-growing religious organizations in the U.S., is steadily losing members to the much newer religion Fictionology.
WASHINGTON, DC A U.S. judge ruled that God is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered Him to break up into smaller deities.
NEW YORK-- Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday.
BROWNSVILLE, TX Despite deep, irreconcilable differences that might have led to divorce for other married couples, Clint and Carol Colson have managed to keep their family together through the power of faith. Their belief in God is living proof of the old adage that the family that prays together suffers
CARTHAGE, MO -- An embarrassed God admitted Monday that He was late for the Saturday wedding of Patrick Moore and Dina Roble, arriving halfway through the ceremony but catching "most of the important stuff."
JERUSALEM Dissatisfied with dwindling receipts in recent years, redeemer of humanity Jesus Christ issued a rare public statement Monday, sharply criticizing His followers' lack of generosity and demanding a marked increase in their contributions to the long-standing religion based upon belief in Him.
GASTONIA, SC Eight months ago, Larry Dunne was alone. He didn't have a friend in the world. But all that changed with his baptism at the New Hearts Fundamentalist Church. Ever since becoming a born-again Christian, Dunne has a friend through Jesus. "Let's see, there's Richard and Janet and Craig...."
COLUMBUS, OH The gloriously jubilant gospel singing that pours forth each Sunday from Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is enough to make local resident Doug Kamin wish he believed in all that God bullshit.<
Note that as far as I know, anyway, the Onion has never been targeted for any of these highly droll stories.
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