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Friday April 17, 2009
Jedi • Offbeat News:
Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged. One of the officers commented, “We do see ourselves as the good guys fighting crime, but it’s hardly in the same league as Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader is it?
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Thursday April 9, 2009
Mormonism/Mormon Church • Offbeat News:
Thousands of issues of Brigham Young University’s student newspaper were pulled from newsstands because a front-page photo caption misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles.An apostate is someone who abandons a previous loyalty – such as to faith, political party or a cause.
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Thursday October 16, 2008
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A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God.Chambers believes he has found a hole in the judge’s ruling.
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Friday July 18, 2008
Offbeat News • Only and Universal Smokers Church of God:
Dutch smokers are flocking to a religious movement known as “The Only and Universal Smokers Church of God” following a ban on tobacco smoking indoors.
Michiel Eijsbouts, founder and “Smokelighter” of the church he founded in 2001, has insisted that the Dutch smoking ban in place does not apply to members of his church under national and European human rights legislation.
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Tuesday July 15, 2008
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A church in the USA (duh!) won’t be giving a teenager an assault rifle. This year. They do plan to give away the AR-15 next year.
Fortunately the pastor says he won’t give the rifle to “somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill.”
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Friday July 11, 2008
Offbeat News:
“We have no passports or air tickets but just our bibles. God sent us here to go and spread his word and we are waiting to go as he wishes. We will fly to different destinations,” one of them told a Tanzania newspaper. According to the group their bibles would also serve as visas to every country they planned preach.
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Sunday July 6, 2008
Offbeat News:
A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.
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Friday June 27, 2008
Maya Calendar • Offbeat News:
Belying their country’s rational and laid back image, thousands of Dutch people are convinced December 21, 2012 coincides with a world catastrophe.
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Wednesday June 25, 2008
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Today’s offbeat religion news includes an item about God being arrested outside a church, the bizarre death of an Australian pastor, and the danger of bright lipstick.
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Tuesday June 17, 2008
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Steve Kreuscher is no more.A Lake County judge granted permission to the Zion man Friday to officially change his name to “In God We Trust.” That’s “In God” as a first name and “We Trust” as a last name.
The 57-year-old artist and bus driver was ecstatic about the name change as he exited court Friday.
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Tuesday May 20, 2008
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After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives would have seen quite enough of each other, thank you very much. But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed to live with his wife for three decades without setting eyes on her face.
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Monday May 5, 2008
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Kreuscher says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times.
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Friday April 25, 2008
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Danish imam Abdul Wahid Petersen and several other Muslims have started a group, ‘Muslims for Danish pigs’ rights’…
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Tuesday April 22, 2008
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The 41-year-old priest wanted to break a 19-hour record for the longest period aloft with balloons, to raise money for a spiritual rest-stop for truckers in the Brazilian port of Paranagua. [video]
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Sunday April 6, 2008
Islam • Offbeat News • Religious Insanity:
Mohammed Anwar said a ban would make it difficult to commute between his two wives and fulfil his matrimonial duties.
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Wednesday March 5, 2008
Offbeat News:
We don’t know what he is smoking, but from now on we will be filing any items involving the opinions of Benny Shanon under the heading “Offbeat News.”
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Friday January 18, 2008
Offbeat News:
A sign in front of a church in Brampton, Canada, usually has an inspirational message on it. This time, someone complained.
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Monday January 14, 2008
Offbeat News:
To get people to attend his new church campus, Robbie McLaughlin is sending his message out to where the people are.
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Saturday December 29, 2007
Bible • Offbeat News:
The smugglers had unglued Bible covers and put drugs in plastic bags inside before fixing them back.
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Monday December 24, 2007
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A Pietermaritzburg pastor was shocked this week when his mother, who had been pronounced dead at a local hospital, suddenly came alive, gasping for breath.
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Wednesday December 19, 2007
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A group of Orthodox Christians in northwest Russia have accused Coca-Cola of offending their religious beliefs with adverts that use distorted images of Orthodox churches, including inverted crosses.
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Further evidence that Political Correctness is an extreme form of stupidity.
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Tuesday December 11, 2007
Offbeat News:
Sister Kathy Avery’s school has a zero-tolerance policy for swearing. And to make sure the kids knew exactly what she was talking about, Avery read a list of words and phrases that she was banning, including a few that would make many grown-ups blush.
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Sunday December 9, 2007
Catch The Fire • Danny Nalliah • Offbeat News:
A radical Christian group with the ear of prominent politicians has blamed “sinful” Australians for the nation’s record drought.
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Hinduism • Offbeat News:
An Indian judge has summoned two Hindu gods to help resolve a 20-year-old property dispute.
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