Religion
Meet the Sikh Man Who Wants to Arm His Turbaned Brothers
Gursant Singh is a uniquely American mix of red-blooded gun boosterism and the heritage of a religion birthed half a world away. According to him, the best way to combat the uptick in hate crimes toward Sikhs is to start packing heat.
Sex Church
Members of the Little Pebble Dohsyuku-kai gather in a cluttered space each morning and await secret messages from the Virgin Mary. Afterward, Jean-Marie lubes up a woman’s belly and pussy with yogurt and has sex with her at an altar as the other...
The Quebec Government's Plan to Ban Religious Symbols May Be a Stroke of Political Genius
Last week the Journal de Montreal dropped a bomb on Quebec’s extremely shaky sense of identity by publishing leaked details from the upcoming Charter of Quebec Values set to be released in the fall.
Unmasking Lucien Greaves, Leader of the Satanic Temple
Lucien Greaves of the Satanic Temple first showed up at my door over a decade ago. He wanted a copy of a book I had republished called Might Is Right. It was a 100-year-old tome, long forgotten by most, with the exception of Anton LaVey, who'd...
Pope Francis Is Shockingly Good at Social Media
My main man in Vatican City has decided to take social media by storm. Pope Benedict shocked the world when he became the first tweeting Pope in history, but his Twitter game was sparse and crappy. In contrast, Francis’s approach to social media brings...
Prayers, Pilgrims, and Parties
Every May gypsies from all over the world descend on the small French costal town of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to take part in a huge gypsy pilgrimage, the event is part religious event, part tourist phenomenon.
We Took an Anti Gay Marriage Priest to see a Gay Married Priest
He didn't change his mind on the issue.
Sacrificing Virgins
Back in the day, if you wanted God to bless your crops and make them grow high to the heavens, you prayed for rain. If that didn't work, you built a temple or maybe slaughtered a goat. And if that didn't work, well, then you just hacked up the nearest...
People Who Love God Also Love Porn
The residents of “religious” cities watch just about the same amount of porn as the godless heathens in progressive cities like San Francisco and Boston. The study is the result of adult website PornHub crunching the numbers on where their users are...
Don't Bet on the Apocalypse
Remember those billboards during the summer of 2011 that boldly claimed the world was going to end on May 21 of that year? Those predictions were put together by a California-based Christian cult who is now destitute, because they spent all their money...
Fuck Church
As part of a tradition lifted from the Roman Catholic model, members of the devout commune Little Pebble Dohsyuku-kai gather each morning and await secret messages from the Virgin Mary.