Cidu Bill on May 11th 2010
As soon as Supreme Court Justice Stevens announced his retirement and it became apparent that his likely replacements were all either Jewish or Catholic, Ann Coulter wrote an article sounding the alarm there would no longer be any Protestants on the Supreme Court. At the time, I thought this was an odd thing to even notice, and I figured it was just Ann Coulter being Ann Coulter. After all, she’s been having a tough time of it lately — suddenly ignored by the media in favor of Sarah Palin, who’s prettier and not half as intelligent — so she has to make increasingly outrageous comments in order to get any attention.
But now the dearth of SCOTUS Protestantism is being offered up as news by organizations such as the Associated Press, so I have to wonder: Is this something American Protestants are really upset about, or is this a media-manufactured issue like “the War on Christmas”?
Filed in Ann Coulter, Bill Bickel, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court, religion | 46 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Mar 13th 2010
Nicole: It’s another trifecta… I suspect that you may want to add the religiously offensive warning to this one as well Continue Reading »
Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, Ewww, Saurday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, religion, religiously offensive | 60 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Feb 3rd 2010
I already had this one queued up for tomorrow morning; but then a bunch of people sent it to me, so I moved it up
Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, CIDU, Dan Piraro, comic strips, comics, humor, religion | 22 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jan 7th 2010
I shifted this one over to the Billo site, because it might be a bit religiously sensitive even by the standards of CIDU’s off-topic discussions (and the link is now fixed)
Filed in Ann Coulter, Bill Bickel, Billo, Brit Hume, Tiger Woods, religion | 3 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 18th 2009
A bit off-topic, I guess, but…
I’ve been wondering how religion can exist at all in the comic book world, given what the people see around them: Creating life has been done and done some more. Change water into wine? Dozens of people can do that. The Scarlet Witch can change the very nature of reality without pausing from putting on her make-up.
That whole resurrection thing? Please! Superman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jason Todd, Electra, Jean Grey, Jean Grey, Jean Grey… Just over the past month or so, the Flash, Kid Flash and Superboy all returned from the dead. We’re not talking “missing and presumed dead” here, but dead-as-a-doorbell, bodies buried. Captain America is supposedly coming back this week. Later this summer, apparently, a slew of dead DC characters are coming back en masse. True, they’ll be sort-of zombies, but you can bet that the more popular characters will somehow end up whole. Comic book heroes die, nobody even bothers to cancel their newspaper deliveries.
So in the DC and Marvel Universes, how is it possible for anybody to look at God/Jesus/Allah and see Somebody worthy of worship?
Filed in Bill Bickel, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman, comic books, religion, super heroes | 41 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 25th 2008
Filed in Bill Bickel, Crimeweek, Weird World of Crime, lawsuits, religion | Comments Off
Cidu Bill on May 20th 2008
In the Muslim faith, anybody born to a Muslim father, regardless of the mother’s religion, is a Muslim (which might have implications in the case of Barack Obama); while Judaism uses the opposite rule, that a child is Jewish or non-Jewish depending on the mother — under the logic that you can be 100% certain who the mother is, but…
(None of this is to say, of course, that parents can’t and don’t raise their children however they see fit; but this is what Muslim and Jewish law dictate)
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, religion, trivia | 13 responses so far
