Still from the movie Avatar

To the confusion of the upper echelon of the Catholic church there was no underage boys in a little movie you may not have heard of: Avatar. Seems they didn't understand that the hype around the films release and its unbelievable success.

All kidding aside, the Catholic church has shown just how out of touch with reality they are when they called the movie "dangerous" and, incredibly, "bland."

Bland!? Avatar? Really? I almost have to wonder if they saw this movie. Regardless of what criticisms I've seen of the movie, bland is not something I have heard anyone use. In fact those who hate the storyline itself still exclaim the amazing special effects in the film.

Their claim of "dangerous" shouldn't be too much of a surprise, coming from the group who also finds Harry Potter dangerous. The idea of being one with nature so harms the church that they must find every way to destroy the idea. The Vatican believes that this could lead people down a path of naturalistic spiritualism, a neo-pagan belief system.

Obviously the Catholic church knows just how gullible their flock is and is attempting to dissuade them from seeing the film.

Hahaha... those silly two-thousand twelvers, they're a year off! Regardless, there is something quite fun about seeing this guy call the 2012 end-of-the-worlders believers in fairy tales. Kettle, meet pot.

Hey, everyone makes mistakes including self-delusional self-proclaimed bible math wizards.

... and I tell you, I nearly fell out of my chair with that explanation.

So in the end, blind faith wins all. Logic based thought will not enter into the equation nor will they listen to it. "I can't even think like that" is how all of this continues even in the face of insurmountable evidence.

Enjoy this article in full here at the San Francisco Chronicle: Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011

*Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
* December 25th is just a 'Holiday'.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday!*
Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!
If you agree please forward, if not, simply delete.

Remember children, it is un-Christ like to be inclusive to other people. We live in Uhmereeka damn it! We's a christian nation! Speak English and pretend to read the bible or get the hell out.

The word "holiday" means "holy day."

No, it doesn't. The world "holiday" originally comes from the Old English word hāligdæg which did mean "holy day." This is no longer the case. Present English defines "holiday" as a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration, any day of exemption from work, or a religious feast day. (See "Holiday" definition.) There is more to this word than a day around the religious word "holy." I've ran into this argument a surprising amount of times including one who used it as proof of the existence of their flavor of deity.

Halloween is a counterfeit holy day that is dedicated to celebrating the demonic trinity of: the Luciferian Spirit (the false father); the Antichrist Spirit (the false holy spirit); and the Spirit of Belial (the false son).

Wait, what? The Christian boogy-man, Satan, is now a trinity as well? This is honestly the first time I've heard of the supposed trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Antichrist Spirit. My first thought was that this was being made up in her mind until I fired up Google and found others speaking of the same thing. To my knowledge I was never taught anything like this in Sunday school. I realized at a young age that these stories were meant to keep the people inline. It wasn't until later that the line of thinking I had begun then would come to maturity and break free of the silly belief in god.

During Halloween, time-released curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great measure.

This was also the first time I've heard someone ever mention time-released curses. The moment I read this I had images of drug companies selling their time-release medicine. Now, witches are formulating time-released curses to dish out the pain.

I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.

Demons hiding in our candy!? This explains the nasty heartburn I get after eating too much chocolate. I wonder if it is Gog and Magog. I'm pretty sure former President Bush had prophesied their activity in my esophagus track. Remember how hilarious it was to watch your parents cut the fruit you may get from trick or treating because razors might be in them? Now we find out that this whole time they should have been scanning our food with a PKE Meter.

It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.

Dracula, werewolves, mummies, and witches on brooms exist! This is amazing. Little ol' Kimberly Daniels has single handedly brought forth evidence of some of the most well known horror characters from novels during the past handful of centuries being actually real. Scientist are going to have a field day with the buckets of information this lady has unearthed.

The thing that bothers me is that she openly admits praying for "witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon." I'm sorry if I'm a bit incredulous. I would love to meet these women who drink blood and howl at the moon. Why is it that we never meet any of these people, unless of course this is after they've been healed by the power of Christ, right? Akin to the "I used to be an Atheist, heavy into drugs and drinking" line some Christians like to spout.

I always liked to think of Christians as people afraid of their own shadow. As seeing the world as this big scary place and needing the helping hand of an invisible friend to guide them on their way. Having grown up in a family dominated by Pentecostalism I'm pretty well familiar with some of the crazier things taught in a Christian denomination, but I am absolutely floored by the amount of made up junk religion likes to push on the minds of their followers.

Wait, there is more to this story. Believe me, it gets even better.

The danger of Halloween is not in the scary things we see but in the secret, wicked, cruel activities that go on behind the scenes. These activities include:

• Sex with demons
• Orgies between animals and humans
• Animal and human sacrifices
• Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
• Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
• Revel nights
• Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
• Release of "time-released" curses against the innocent and the ignorant.

Geez, I'm feeling a bit left out. How come I've never been invited to parties like these? I'm not even sure where to begin with this. Sex with demons? Really? Sure, the modern Succubus looks pretty hot and tempting but I'm pretty sure there are some nasty STDs you can get from demons. Orgies between animals and humans? Animal and human sacrifices? Baby sacrifice? Didn't we go through this during the eighties? Once again Google never lets me down, I find out that the Jesus Freaks believe in Succubus and their male counterpart Incubus! It has come to the point that it no longer is shocking to hear Christians proclaim belief in such oddities anymore. When you believe in a god who supposedly creates an avatar of himself, then sacrifices himself to himself to forgive the sins of a people he made himself, and believe this without a single doubt then the idea of ghastly demons roaming the Earth seem tame in comparison.

In some ways I can understand these people. I remember growing up fearful of all the unknowns in the world. I recall having a pastor tell me all sorts of horrific things and gladly believing it because why would he lie? Unlike many others though I eventually escaped the nonsense when I finally took a look at the world around me. I remember well the fear I allowing myself to think freely - it actually terrorized me. Only at first. It took about two years to full pull myself out of the mindset I had forced on me as a child.

As much as I would have loved to have done a line by line refute of this article, the stench of ignorance coming from this article is so strong that I can hardly find the will to move on. Having assaulted myself with this article, I'm hoping to find some brain bleach, a stiff drink, and an alien abduction. I want off this rock.

Aww, CBN removed the article. I can't imagine they were embarrassed by the content with all the wacky stuff Pat pushes. So, google cache comes to the rescue. I really do love Google.

Cache a la Google of the removed article.

Also found where the original post was republished.