Category: You can’t make it up
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US gospel singer justifies angering Delta Airline passengers by saying God told her to sing loudly

Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. Some Christians have a massive sense of entitlement. Bobbi Storm, above, is one of them. At the weekend Storm, according to Business Insider, stood up in an aisle and began singing her new gospel song, the truly ghastly “We Can’t…
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U.S. Catholic’s macabre plan to have Thomas More’s head put on public display rebuffed

MORE’S head, separated from his body in 1535 after he got on the wrong side of King Henry VIII, was parboiled, put on a stake for a month, retrieved by his daughter and wound up hidden in a vault in an Anglican church. Its absence from public view at St Dunstan’s in Canterbury. apparently irked…
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Corpses in a museum create a problem for Orthodox Jews using a London tube station

THE problem: the Exhibition Road entrance to South Kensington tube station forms part of Science Museum, which houses human remains. This apparently makes it inaccessible to those Jews who believe that they may not come into contact with dead bodies in any shape or form (exceptions are made for immediate family). The proposed solution, according…
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Dead body tourism: nun’s cadaver attracts thousands to Gower, Missouri (pop 1,533)

CATHOLICS. as we all know, have a ghoulish fascination with matters pertaining to death. Their taste for all things creepy has now created a tourist boom in Gower, with thousands queuing for hours to goggle at the corpse of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died four years ago aged 95. The invasion of the town began…
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The ghost of Benedict XVI is on tour, claiming he was ousted as Pope and was the victim of ‘slow euthanasia’

SHORTLY after his death in December, 2022, Joseph Ratzinger appeared before Sister Benedicta of the Holy Cross in Colombia on February 2, 2023, and warned of “impending doom.” During his lengthy discourse with the nun, Ratzinger, who died aged 95, revealed that his death was a case of “slow euthanasia.” Not only did Ratzinger identify…
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Resurrection failure: court orders burial of a pastor who died in August 2021

CONVINCED that constant prayer would lead to the resurrection of dead South African pastor Siva Moodley, above, his family refused to have him buried or cremated. But after his corpse languished in a funeral home for almost 600 days the pissed off proprietors were compelled to seek a court’s permission to dispose of the body.…
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Heavy metal guitarist Mark Moreton accuses Christian store of ‘bootleggin’ my shit’

HOP acoss to Ciaocustom.com and and there you will find an enormous array of tacky Jesus-centred objects ranging from hats to handbags … all designed by Vietnamese, who, ironically, mostly lean to Buddhism. The site says: We are a group of enthusiastic, artistic people who love using art to spread the message of God. Through…
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‘Show Me The Toes’ website created to demand proof of pastor’s miracle claim

AFTER Missouri pastor John Lindell, above, claimed that prayer restored three toes lost by a woman—Krissy Thompson, inset—a website was set set to challenge the claim. Show Me The Toes referred to a Facebook account of the “creative miracle” that took place during a “Week of Power” at Lindell’s James River Church staged between March…

