Friday, July 28, 2006  Faith healer restores eyeballs to empty
sockets, causes missing hands to re-grow on arm stumps  You'd
think this blog's raisson d'etre is to bash fundamentalist
Christians, as much as I've written about them lately. It's not
that I take joy in it (though I do), but that there is so
freakin' much to point out in the wacky world of Christian
fundamentalism. From Josh the Baptist's anti-Masonic, literalist
worldview to Westboro Baptist Church's wackos protesting
veterans' funerals with "God Hates Fags" signs, there's a
motherlode of fundamentalist foolishness that needs laughing at.
California evangelist A.L. "Papa" Gill popped up on my radar
scope this morning, in a story from Nova Scotia, Canada, where
he's currently holding a freak show, er, I mean, a faith healin'
church revival.  Posters circulated before his revival meetings
sound like something from the carnival. His list of miracles
includes restoring sight by making a missing eyeball suddenly
appear in a formerly empty eye-socket