religion

The holidays can be joyous time, but things can go south very quickly when the conversation around the Thanksgiving table gets a little controversial.

A pastor recently told his New Jersey congregation a story of how he punched a kid in the chest and brought him to the Lord. Really?

A high school teacher in Rio Rancho, N.M., has resigned after a controversy surrounding one of her creative writing assignments.

Years ago, a woman claimed to see the image of Jesus Christ in a grilled cheese sandwich. That helped set off a events in which people were seeing Jesus in everything from food to windows to toasters. Things had calmed down for a while with the Jesus sightings, but now he's back!

Bernard Pritchard, a prison inmate at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., is claiming he is being discriminated against. He says he is not being afforded the necessary means to practice his religion of Satanism and is suing to secure that, according to KRQE-TV and The Santa Fe Reporter.

A pastor in Cleveland, Texas, is trying to get "demonic" books removed from his local public library, KTRK 13 Eyewitness News reports.

Habemus Papem  - Pope Francis is the new pope. Only two days into the conclave, 115 Roman Catholic cardinals have elected a new pontiff who faces the challenge of leading a church that is facing many challenges. People have been waiting for days to see the white smoke in Vatican City and now that that has happened, Argentinian Cardinal Bergoglio is the new pope has been announced as the new leader

I haven’t determined yet if this is some clever voiceover work or a brilliant marketing video to attract young racist kids to Christianity.

Thanks to the Internet, you can pretty much do anything these days. You can also gamble on anything, thanks to the huge number of online sportsbooks all over the world just waiting to take your money. As proof of this, one sports book is even allowing you to bet on who the successor to the now-resigned Pope Benedict XVI will be...

Apparently we are all sinners in the Albany, NY area - a recent study done by an Evangelical group ranked the most bible minded and least bible minded cities in the United States and we came in at #2. Perhaps next year we can strive for the #1 place, an honor held by New Bedford MA.

Ah Craigslist - The ultimate guide to human stupidity, hilarity, and sometimes pure out grossness. Kempsville, Virginia (a borough of Virginia Beach) is the home to this latest WTF posting on Craigslist where a couple wants someone to preach to them while they do the nasty. Oh and that's not all.

NSFW — Leave it to Roastmaster Jeffrey Ross to risk his life for the emotional welfare of the American public (and Comedy Central).