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rapture
Save Your Friends From Post-Rapture Hellfire For Only $40 Per Year
A company called You've Been Left Behind is selling a post-Rapture package that sends emails to your sinful friends and family, letting them know where you are and what's up with the whole pending apocalypse thing. For only $40 per year, You've Been Left Behind offers "to get one last message to the lost, at a time, when they might just be willing to hear it for the first and last time." More » -
whoops
Man Ejected From Flight Because He Wouldn't Sit Down And Stop Praying
Praying is nice but you should try not to disrupt the entire flight with your holiness. WNBC says an Orthodox Jewish man got up from his seat while passengers were still boarding, and walked to the back of the United Airlines flight where he began praying. His friend said the prayers lasted approximately 2 minutes. When flight attendants asked the man to return to his seat so the plane could take off, he ignored them. More » -
walmart
Black & Decker Food Processor Comes With Creepy Religious Materials
Ever wonder how Jesus and American Idol are different? Reader Jessica didn't, even after she found a religious pamphlet on the subject in a Black & Decker food processor she picked up at Walmart. She is now "totally creeped out," and doesn't quite know how to respond. More » -
rude
Walmart Apologizes For Making Fun Of A Muslim Woman Wearing A Veil
Walmart has apologized to a Muslim woman who said she was mocked by a Walmart employee as she paid for her items, says the Associated Press.
"Please don't stick me up," a cashier told the shopper on Feb. 2, according to the Nevada chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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usury
Study Says Payday Lenders More Prevalent In Areas Of High Christian Conservative Power
A law professor and associate professor of geography set out to create the most comprehensive map of U.S. payday lenders to date. What they found, to their surprise, was "a surprising relationship between populations of Christian conservatives and the proliferation of payday lenders." And it's not a side effect of a poor population that happens to be Christian, according to the authors: "Our research showed that the correlation between payday lenders and the political power of conservative Christians was stronger than the correlation between payday lenders and the proportion of a population living below the poverty line." More » -
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A mortgage maker that positioned itself as a "Christian" lender wasn't immune to secular market forces and fired employees are learning to turn the other cheek when it comes to their severance pay: a $20 supermarket gift card. [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
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religion
Annual Islamic Convention Is A Muslim Shopper's Dream
The annual Islamic Society of North America convention, which was held this past weekend in Illinois, is the largest on the continent—this year approximately 40,000 people attended to take part in panel discussions and seminars. It's also a bastion of shopping stalls offering every Muslim product imaginable, which leads the UK's Guardian newspaper to wonder whether it has become "more about shopping than spirituality." More » -
The Vatican has opened a special airline to shuttle pilgrims to holy spots around the globe, but not even their holy water is exempt from the 100 ml liquid carry-on limit. Man, those are going to be some well-anointed security checkpoints. [Telegraph via BoingBoing]
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retail
Religious Action Figures Are Coming To Walmart
Talking Jesus dolls will make their Walmart debut early next month as part of a spiffy new line of religious action figures. Walmart claims it is responding to the needs of kids who want to ditch their G.I. Joe for a Samson, and will only stock the religious toys in stores where the bible is a best-seller. Walmart has always catered to the family values crowd, but that hasn't stopped some Christian ministers from questioning Walmart's faith:"They'll carry anything that sells," says David Croyle, president of FamilyLife, a non-denominational ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. "This simply signals intelligent buying within Wal-Mart."
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