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I can reach people who would like to cook but are finding it difficult. It’s the same with the spiritual. If people want it, I would like to be able to point them in the right direction.

Presumably by promoting the Magdalene Laundries, nice choirboys, roasted protestants and murdered cathars.

Even my sense of the ridiculous is strained by this complete disconnect with reality.

Will she be promoting specialist luxury fresh-cooked wafers - cannibalism a speciality?

Arrrgh!

Delia Smith wants to do for Catholicism what she has done for cooking —Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2011.

Poland

The letter from Gliwice diocese also warned that in the best-selling books the “dangerous world of magic is presented as good”
And:
“Teachers and parents should teach children to go the Lord Jesus if they have problems, and not seek help and answers from fortune telling,”

As opposed to the fairy-tales of the Catholic church, one presumes?

Harry Potter books 'unacceptable’ because they encourage magic
—Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2011.

Israel

Jesus crucifiction nails "found"

The film, 'The Nails of the Cross' by Simcha Jacobovici, follows three years of research during which he presents his assertions - some based on empirical data, others requiring much imagination and a leap of faith.

He hails the find as historic, but most experts and scholars dismissed his case as far-fetched, some calling it a publicity stunt.

Some of us might actually call it the demented ravings of a complete head-case, actually.

—Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2011.

United Kingdom: We always thought Baroness Thatcher was (and is) completely potty! This article from the Daily Torygraph seems to confirm the worst.

The question then arises, I suppose, which is (or was) worse, an openly receptive person to religious quackery, or one who keeps quiet about it?

Oh, dearie, dearie me.

GT.

Margaret Thatcher held secret meetings with Indian mystic—Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2011.

United Kingdom: A Royal Society representative who, in his official capacity, appeared to support the teaching of creationism in science classes has resigned.

The had issued a clarification suggesting Reiss meant when young people ask questions about creationism in science classes, teachers need to be able to explain to them why evolution and the Big Bang are scientific theories but they should also take the time to explain how science works and why creationism has no scientific basis. It was felt that the whole affair, misinterpretation or not, had diminished the reputation of the Society.

Meanwhile, Ken MacLeod has found an extremely interesting 'science' site—one where there is no doubt as to the creationist sympathies of its author. Check out the chemistry lesson Ken picked out for us.

'Creationism' biologist quits job—BBC News, 16th September 2008.

Some comments cannot be allowed to quietly drop out of the sidebar because some comments are Special. This one below was made to Prince William is the Antichrist and reincarnation of King Arthur! by ANOYMOUS (sic., like everything below):

WERE IS HE THE ANTI-CHRIST.I CAN NAME A WOMAN IN AMERICA WHO FOOLED ALL THE MEDIA AND PEOPLE'S PERPTION OF BEAUTY AND VIRTUES.

Oh no, not an anti-Hillary Clinton rant? No, nothing so mundane.

carolyn bessette.EVEN BEFORE SHE WAS DATING JOHNF.KENNEDY JR. HER BIRTHDAY WAS JAN.6,1966 AND HER INTENTION VRY MUCH LIKE THE GENE TAIRNEY CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE WERE SHE KILLS HER HUSBAND'S BROTHER AND AND UNBORN CHILD FOR SICK DEMONANIC PURPOSE VERSES THE FAULSE PERCEPTION OF GOOD. ALL THE WAY GOD GAVE SIGN OF THIS WOMAN MENTAL SICKNESS AND EVIL BEHAVIOR BEHIND AND INFRONT OF THE CAMERA.APOUN HER BEING ANNOUNCE JOHN'S WIFE SHE QUIKLY CHANGED HER HEIGHT AND WEIGHT FROM 5'9 TO 6'0 AND FROM A WAVE WEIGHT TO MORE 105 POUNDS.HER HAIR WAS NOT NATURALLY BLONDE BUT COLORED BLONDE .HER IMAGES CHANGED OVER THE YEARS NO FOR PHOTOGENIC PURPOSE BUT FOR A BETTER PUBLIC APPEAL WHILE SHE CHANGE HER POINTS OF HER PAST HISTORY OF BEING A DRUG ABUSER WHORE AND UNVIRTURIUOS IN HER PANTIES COSTANTLY SINNING IN HER LIFE. ARRANGING PEOPLE'S LIFE STYLE TO BETTER HR IMAGE AND YET BLEEDING HER VITIUM OF REALITY UNTIL THEY GET SO EMOTIONAL ABUSED AD PHYSICALLY THEY CAN'T SEE THAT SHE HAS A DEMON PERSONAL.WHY NO ONE SEES HER PLOTTING TO TAKE SOMEONE LIKE JOHN OUT OF THI WORLD BECAUSE SHE CAN'T HANDLE NOT CONTROLING HIM AND OTHERS IN THE LIGHT OF THE MEDIA. THUS TAKING SOMETHING SO SEMBLE AND ENLARGING INTO A BIG DEAL.TO INSURE HER DEMONATIC BEHAVIOR SEX LIFE AND SIN PRAYS SHE PRAYS IN HER EVERYDAY LIFE TO HURT PEOPLE FOR THEIR PERCEPTION OF GOD LOVE AND GOODESS.

In case you are confused, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. and died with him in a plane crash in 1999.

A few headlines for you:

• United States: A Texas man who told emergency services he killed his girlfriend and cooked parts of her body later described his actions as being compelled by God, police said. Alleged cannibal killer claims he was compelled by God—The Guardian, 8th January 2008.
• United Kingdom: Fundie told she must obey the rules, like everyone else. BA worker loses discrimination case over cross—The Guardian, 9th January 2008.
• United States: Inspiring this kind of thing is usually Kali's job: A man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said. Man Cuts Off, Microwaves His Own Hand—Breitbart, 9th January 2008.
• United Kingdom/Kenya: Gilbert Deya tries to use Kenyan unrest to avoid extradition. Forgets British government revels in sending people back to dangerous war zones. Deya loses his appeal against extradition—icSouthLondon, 9th January 2008.
• England and Wales: End in sight for offences against the non-existent. Ministerial compromise averts backbench revolt over repeal of blasphemy offence—The Guardian, 10th January 2008.
• England and Wales: And a related motion gets an amusing number. Commons call to disestablish church is number 666—The Times, 10th January 2008.
• United States: "Embarrassed" Law Student Apologizes For Anti-Gay Bar Exam Scandal—Queerty, 10th January 2008.
• United Kingdom: Girl found dead in river 'had feared a forced marriage'—The Guardian, 9th January 2008.
• Spain: Bishop of Tenerife blames child abuse on the children—Typically Spanish, 27th December 2007.

Wales: A man obsessed with the Devil has been ordered to be detained indefinitely after he killed a vicar. No doubt fundie sites will be citing this as a case of Satanic crime by the morning, but they would be pretending not to know that he's not been jailed, but instead committed to a secure mental hospital. Geraint Evans stabbed Fr. Paul Bennett repeatedly in the grounds of his church.

Evans was initially charged with murder but his plea of manslaughter was accepted after three doctors presented reports to the court confirming that Evans was a deluded paranoid schizophrenic.

The court heard that he was obsessed with God and the devil and fixated with religion and knives.

...He was a subscriber and contributor to satanic websites using the pseudonym Jack Blade where he declared: I am satan.

Satanist guilty of vicar killing—BBC News, 16th October 2007.

Scotland: The will of a man who left £8 million to the Conservative Party has been overturned by the courts on the grounds that he was not of sound mind when he made the will.

Branislav Bane Kostic ran a successful pharmaceuticals business in Switzerland and London, but became convinced that dark forces were out to get him.

He cut his son Zoran, who lives on Marchmont Road, out of his will and instead left his entire estate to the Conservative Party. At the time, he thought that former prime minister Margaret Thatcher would save the world from monsters, and believed she was the greatest leader of the free world in history.

So, clearly bonkers then. The BBC has further details of the extent of his delusion:

He was tormented by delusions that I and other members of my family were part of a worldwide conspiracy of terrorists and criminals who were trying to kill him.

“My father refused medical treatment, because he also feared that doctors would harm him. In the grip of his delusions, my father turned to the Conservative Party for help to fight the conspiracy that he imagined....

The court heard that Mr Kostic had made the will after saying Margaret Thatcher was the greatest leader of the free world in history and that she would save the world from the satanic monsters and freaks.

Rejected son wins back £8m from Tories—Edinburgh Evening News, 15th October 2007; Tories lose £8.3m bequest battle—BBC News, 15th October 2007.

Arthur D. Hlavaty has received a differently-sane anonymous comment to a LiveJournal entry wishing someone a happy birthday. Here's the first paragraph as a taster:

Mohammed's taking of multiple wives marked the entrance of his clone who was used to segment the Arab world into favored and disfavored factions. Similarly, assuming the accuracy of the dogma, the gods employed a clone for Jesus Christ who was used to claim he was the son of god, opening the door for the worship of a false god. Both clones were used to mislead disfavored followers.

My correspondents get better spam than I do, even if the message denies that it is spam:

This email is NOT SPAM
Please do not ATTACK American's Free Speech by BLOCKING this email or ILLEGALLY marking this email as SPAM. This email is NOT SPAM, because no products are being sold.

A strange definition there, and not a good one as a certain amount of the message involves the spammer trying to sell us his imaginary friend. Perhaps he's being honest and admitting that his product does not actually exist?

What's really interesting is the content of the rest of the message, which is an attack on a church whom he believes did not pray hard enough for his recently-deceased father, and so caused his demise. I'm sure we can all think of a better reason for God's silence. The message is a little long, so you'll have to click on the link to read it. It's long, but ultimately worth it for the dedicated psychoceramicist.

Sheesh, Hallowe'en isn't over yet, and we're being nagged about yuletide! Yeshua_is_king@yahoo.com is a regular contributor to newsgroups such as alt.conspiracy, and seems to be a Jehovah's Witness of some sort. His contributions are rather interesting, his latest drawing connections between the Garden of Eden, willies, bodily fluids, chakras and Christmas trees.

Having been excited by Modemac's contributions to alt.conspiracy, I was pleased to discover the Bulldada Newsblog, which consists of tons of links to more of the same sort of stuff.