Because Allah just couldn’t bear to be left out of our Stuff That Looks Like Jesus page, he appeared in some Nigerian meat.

Apparently, those squigly lines spell out “Allah.”

A search of the kitchen’s meat revealed three more pieces which bore the names.
“When the writings were discovered there were some Islamic scholars who come and eat here and they all commented that it was a sign to show that Islam is the only true religion for mankind,” he said.

A vet told the newspaper the words “defied scientific explanation”.

Here is what “Allah” in Arabic actually looks like, according to a google search:

Yep, they’re acting just like Christians.

Face of Jesus appears on a utility pole.

This has got to be one of the most distorted Jesus “faces” I’ve seen yet. If I was god, I’d be insulted that people thought I was so ugly and deformed. But the faithful are inspired!

For days, hundreds of the faithful have been coming to see what they say is the image of Jesus Christ on a utility pole in Alice, Texas….

However, the image has been vandalized. Someone took a magic marker to the pole and drew a mustache on the image. The act brought some believers to tears.

How do they know god didn’t create the mustache too? All the pictures of Jesus have mustaches, so it was just an attempt to make the picture more accurate, obviously.

At least, according to Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart in his campaign comic about his opponents.

According to the article, he’s actually sending that out to voters. And he wrote it himself.

All I can say is, go Brent Rinehart! Protect us from the abomination of that “anal sodomy”!

As Brian pointed out in the last entry, PZ Myers has been receiving many angry emails, including death threats, from people who are angered by his audicity to actually call a cracker… a cracker. That evil man!

In some of his emails, PZ Myers posted all of the sender information, including name and email info, though he begged his readers not to spam them; the purpose was simply to reveal these people to the world. This had some negative consequences for one unfortunate woman, whose work email was apparently used to send one of the death threats. The company, 1800 Flowers, has supposedly fired her for misuse of work resources. Her husband came online and said he did it. He seems to apologize, but doesn’t sound too apologetic.

There are many folks that read, and biog. at this site who are not religious, perhaps you feel it’s silly, outdated, or superstition, fine. This is your right, but for people in positions of responsibility and with the power to encourage captive undeveloped minds to attack their neighbors beliefs is just insane, divisive, and maybe even criminal.

And, of course, even though he used his wife’s email address to send an angry email threatening violence to PZ and which resulted in his wife being fired… it’s not really his fault she was fired, it’s PZ’s:

However, I think it is his duty to repair the damage that he and his associates have achieved through their concerted and organized campaign to punish both Melanie Kroll, and 1-800-flowers, who were completely blameless in this matter.

However, this whole incident has caused someone who had nothing to do with the email to mr.myers,.a wonderful, sweet person who would never threaten anyone terrible troubles. Great harm has been done to this wonderful lady, without proof or a question asked, you just accuse, and assume.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/fight_back_against_bill_donohu.php

PZ Meyers the biologist / outspoken atheist blogger insulted some people’s Communion wafers, and now some people are threatening him with death, and other people are trying to get him fired.

This is insanity. If you care, email his boss in support of PZ, to counteract the flood of insane Catholics doing the opposite. See also here.

How is it any more unholy to walk on the supposed body of Christ than it is to, say, DEVOUR HIM every Sunday?

Apparently cute puppies in police hats are evil, because they’re ritually unclean.

I have to agree. Look at this:

Clearly the power of Satan flows through this beast!

Insanity:

You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight. This is merely a contract [indicating] consent.

My irony meter just exploded. The justification for this?

The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took ‘Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine.

Ugh.

An old story:

This is supposed to be the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus.

I’m sorry, but no. Come on now. That thing isn’t even vaguely humanoid-shaped. It looks more like a kangaroo, if anything. Or did Mary have a pouch?

Otherwise known as biologist Dr. Lenski destroys nutjob creationist via email.

Summary: Andrew Schlafly is the owner of Conservapedia, a wiki for crazy Christians, and he is a nutjob creationist. Dr. Richard Lenski recently published a paper on a twenty-year study of bacteria which showed them evolving new traits, which obviously irked Schlafly. Schlafly emailed Lenski with a request for data, and Lenski politely and lengthily replied that it was all in his paper. Schlafly emailed again demanding data, and then Lenski went about not-so-politely beating the crazy person down. I believe the technical term is “owned.”

I offer this lengthy reply because I am an educator as well as a scientist. It is my sincere hope that some readers might learn something from this exchange, even if you do not.

First, it seems that reading might not be your strongest suit given your initial letter, which showed that you had not read our paper, and given subsequent conversations with your followers, in which you wrote that you still had not bothered to read our paper. You wrote: “I did skim Lenski’s paper …” If you have not even read the original paper, how do you have any basis of understanding from which to question, much less criticize, the data that are presented therein?

However, if an incompetent or fraudulent hack (note that I make no reference to any person, as this is strictly a hypothetical scenario, one that I doubt would occur) were to make false or misleading claims about our strains, then I’m confident that some highly qualified scientists would join the fray, examine the strains, and sort out who was right and who was wrong. That’s the way science works.

Everyone should read this letter (the experiment sounds pretty interesting, too).

Behold your Lord in Cutlery Form. One lady in the video said it looks like George Washington. I don’t think it even looks like a human face.