Bay of Fundie

That last post was too horrifying to not investigate further. Here are some more things I’ve found out about Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar and their sixteen children.
Go by the family web site, and the first thing you are hit with is this:
Our prayer is that all who view this site will realize that [...]

I stumbled across the above image on the Flickr page of a guy named neilcato. The caption is very funny. The story behind the image is not.
The Flickr page links to a funny column from 2005 by Mark Morford that tells the appalling story of the Duggar family of Arkansas. Yes, they’re [...]

I found this image on the Flickr page of somebody calling himself Plaid Ninja.
By the way, I’ve always been troubled by the Flintstones’ car. I know this is a cartoon, but most cartoons have at least an internally-consistent logic. In all other gadgets on that program, they always show the lizard inside that [...]

A few weeks ago, I came across one of the photos below on another blog (unfortunately, I’ve visited too many blogs recently to remember where I found it; I usually try to credit who tipped me off). It was so amazing, that I had to go to the Flickr page to find out more.
These [...]

The Watcher over at Fundie Watch alerts us to Conservapedia, the “fair and balanced” internet encyclopedia.
No information source is 100% accurate, and it’s almost impossible to write something completely without bias. Conservatives complain that Wikipedia has a liberal bias, so what do they do? Do they come out with “Neutered-pedia”, an encyclopedia that [...]

Here’s the second half of my review of Who Was Jesus?, an ebook by Acharya S. The book can be purchased for a “donation” of $5 or more. I enjoyed the book and recommend it.
Chapter 5: Textual Harmonization
Chapter 5 covers the problems Christians have had with “harmonization”, which is the process of reconciling [...]

While researching some trivia about Strom Thurmond, I stumbled across the web site for Strom Thurmond High School! The mind reels! They named a high school for this guy? This is the guy who bailed from the Democratic party in 1948 because of its support for desegregation. (In fact, he joined [...]

D.M. Murdock writes under the pen name Acharya S. She’s a scholar, and some would call her a conspiracy theorist. She has two books published, The Christ Conspiracy and Suns of God, neither of which I have read. Wikipedia says:
Her contention is that all religion is founded in earlier myth and that [...]