The church is part of the empire of megapastor Kenneth Copeland, who advocates faith healing and a connection between vaccines and autism. The Dallas Morning News reports that the church is relenting…
Superstition
Science textbooks throughout Texas and Louisiana are set to get even more exciting as this dragons-are-real paradigm spreads. Creationist author Darek Isaacs explains: “The Bible speaks about dragons…in the old scriptures, in the New Testament…Satan is compared to a dragon. Throughout history, on every continent, we see dragons portrayed, these lethal predators. In the Bible, God explains (Satan) to us using dragon imagery…people 2,000 years ago understood had dangerous they were. ”
Religious devotion as horrifying insanity. Washington’s KOIN reports: A father with children in the house who was preparing for “the Rapture” blew up his family’s Labrador Retriever because the devil was inside…
Call it superstition, but I would refuse to have anything to do with the Iceman at this point. Via Deutsche Welle: A 63-year-old man dying of natural causes would normally raise few…
The obvious question is, if this indeed is Jesus’s blood, would lab testing identify it? Via Brazil Weird News: In the parish Maria Madre de la Iglesia (city of Guadalajara), the priest…
Eternal life or no, drinking this water daily is bound to have some interesting results. Via National Geographic: Thanks to the myth of Ponce de Leon’s trip, Florida—known for its large population…
Curious for some tips on curing demons? In September the Ethnic Health Initiative will present a conference for social workers, psychiatrists, therapists, and other professionals on allmatters of supernatural possession: Spirit possession…
Via The End of Capitalism, Alex Knight offers a fascinating take on the powerful meaning of witches in European history: For Silvia Federici, it’s no accident that “the witch-hunt occurred simultaneously with…
Hazards of the procedure: the surgeon misunderstands palm reading, and inadvertently puts a curse on you. Fox News reports: Japanese intent on changing their fate have begun having plastic surgery to alter…
Thenews.pl reports on what lies beneath: Archaeologists in Gliwice, southern Poland have discovered a burial ground where the dead were laid to rest in accordance with practices for alleged vampires. Four skeletons…
When is someone going to found a metaphysical eBay? Via the Sydney Morning Herald: A Chinese magician’s online “spell” emporium that is reportedly earning him more than one million yuan ($180,000) each…
Call the reburial a case of superstition triumphing over rationality, but, frankly, the Golden Man gives me the creeps too. RIA Novosti reports: Ever heard about the curse of the pharaohs? Well,…
Belief doesn’t have to be superstitious or irrational to give us comfort. e! Science News reports: A faith in the explanatory and revealing power of science increases in the face of stress…
A portal between the heavens and Earth. Live Science reports: A towering “rain control” site, where shamans would have asked the gods to open up the skies centuries ago, has been discovered…
Can the law effectively contain the supernatural? From truTV: Authorities in Swaziland, who are very serious about their witches, have enacted revolutionary new legislation intended to regulate all witch air traffic over…
High-ranking Vatican exorcist Gabriele Amorth, featured in the Disinformation film Exorcist in the 21st Century, proudly declares that the new pope’s use of prayer to expel demons from a visiting Mexican man…
Scientific American on the mysterious benefit and power behind “irrational” rituals: Rituals take an extraordinary array of shapes and forms. At times performed in communal or religious settings, at times performed in solitude;…
On the French isle of Corsica, the chilling prehistoric occult practice of dream hunting, performed by psychically-gifted individuals called mazzeri, is still done by a small number today. Drawing from descriptions by…
Perhaps we could use a bit of this policy approach here in the United States? Reuters reports: China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs…
If you were looking for a hip, new image for the Christian savior for the Coachella generation, I think it has arrived. Introducing Juggling Jesus via the Christian Post: Jesus has appeared…
Perhaps this is only an instance of our tendency to see faces everywhere. But nonetheless, located at coordinates 50° 0’36.67″N 110° 6’51.38″W in the mountains of Alberta, Canada is a geological formation which arguably bears strong resemblance to a Mayan chieftain. One wonders how he feels about recent oil drilling in the area:
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Could parenting difficulties be attributable to Satanic possession of your children? Top anti-demon website DemonBuster reveals: We received the following email about a woman learning DELIVERANCE, and practicing DELIVERANCE on her young…
The dark side of zodiac compatibility tests, via the South Florida Sun Sentinel: A Lauderhill man told a bizarre tale of needing to find a victim who had a Taurus zodiac sign…
Via Reality Sandwich, discussing the state of the occult in 2013, author Mitch Horowitz on how esoteric ideas saturate contemporary society: This notion of using your mind as a causative agency colors…
“Ever wonder what heaven’s actually like?” Fox News journalists have the answer, from the mouth of Crystal McVea, whose heart briefly stopped while she was undergoing treatment for an inflamed pancreas. McVea claims she ascended to heaven, where she felt like she “had 500 senses” and smelled God. She is selling an e-book titled “Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again” describing the experience: