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Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the astrologer suing NASA for interfering with comets.
Wonderful - I'm bookmarking that sceptic circle site. I liked the one about the image of the Virgin Mary appearing in salt stains under a bridge in Chicago. It reminded me of the fence post at Coogee Beach in Sydney that people believed was an apparition - I had to go see that for myself to believe it (not believe the apparition, but believe there were literally hundreds of people kneeling and praying to a fencepost).
Ah yes, the Holy Fencepost of Coogee. I took a picture. Can you spot the Virgin Mary?
Ah, ye of little faith! How do you explain that after the Virgin of the Underpass was defaced by a vandal (who wrote "Big Lie" over it in shoe polish), and then painted over by state workers, she magically reappeared due to the efforts of two car wash employees and some solvent?
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Seriously, I am not bothered by such harmless expressions of faith.
What bothers me is how mainstream this kind of insanity is in the US: Darwin on trial: Evolution hearings open in Kansas.