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Jason Killian Meath

The Curious Case of Brad’s Vacant Pit

by Jason Killian Meath

Brad Pitt was recently asked by German magazine Bild if he believed in God. Pitt smiled and answered: “No, no, no!”  Then, asked if his soul was spiritual, he once again said: “No, no, no!” Adding: “I’m probably “20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic.” With that, the shrieks of millions of women who dreamed of a storybook church wedding with Mr. Pitt could be heard crying out across the planet.

The comment is sure to cause a few ripples from the man who once played the son of a preacher man in the spiritual A River Runs Through It.  What’s more, Pitt advises there is no use thinking about God or a higher power — we’ll find out when we get there, he says.  Umm, get where Brad?  The Beverly Hills Hotel in the sky?  It never ceases to amaze to hear celebrities speak out about religion – or a lack thereof.  In a business where vainglory is king, perhaps it is not surprising many in Hollywood are said to lack religion.  Que Sera Sera — free country, right?   (more…)

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Posted Jul 29th 2009 at 7:17 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Religion | 161 Comments

Steven Crowder

Happy Prayer Day! (Featuring the ACLU)

by Steven Crowder

I still can’t decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who “isn’t there,” or a person offended by a God whom he doesn’t believe exists. It’s a tough question, but I’m sure Janeane Garofalo has the answer… Haven’t you heard? That dame knows everything. There’s just “no two ways about it.”


For all of you atheist Libertarians who will undoubtedly be offended by this… Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of time to complain about it while you’re in hell.

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Posted May 7th 2009 at 5:22 pm in Political Humor, Video | One Comment

Jeffrey Jena

Is It Me, Or Is It Hot In Here?

by Jeffrey Jena


Why all the hats and jackets?

I’m not a man of strong faith, so I’m constantly looking for signs of God working around me. As a comic I have to believe that God has a sense of humor. Yesterday those two things ran smack into each other in Washington D.C.

In the middle of the worst spring blizzard of the past thirty years, and with temperatures in the twenties, some of those sharp minds who have “settled” the global warming debate held a protest. I kept thinking of that line from the old folk song “Oh, Susanna”: the sun so hot I froze to death.” Both Steven Biel of Greenpeace and the website for Capitol Climate Action said it was the “largest act of civil disobedience for climate change” in the history of the United States.” (more…)

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Posted Mar 3rd 2009 at 11:15 am in News, Politics | 118 Comments

Mike Long

Too Much Certainty To “Doubt”

by Mike Long

“Doubt” is a little too subtle, believe it or not. We don’t tend to think of movies as subtle–so many things blowing up, so many emotions played for the back of the house–but frequently, a significant fact is provided to the audience in only a line or two; in a two-hour movie, that is easy to miss. This happens in “Doubt,” toward the end. I think filmmakers fall into this trap because they grow so familiar with a project that they forget the story will be entirely new to the audience. But after watching dailies every day for months, then sitting in an edit bay for weeks and months more, they become familiar with every tic and nuance, and quite naturally lose their ability to consider how others will approach the picture–that is, without any foreknowledge, which, of course, is how audiences come to a picture. (more…)

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Posted Jan 29th 2009 at 2:20 pm in Reviews | 17 Comments