Tuesday Gobytes

Eye-catching headline of the day: Religion Dispatches is talking about the spirituality of horror in a piece entitled “praying to zombie Jesus.” Thomas Dubois at the Huffington Post thinks Asia just, well, doesn’t have religion. Hard of hearing? Love televangelism? Good news: the Federal Communications Commission has your back. The Fed is reportedly cracking down […]

Eye-catching headline of the day: Religion Dispatches is talking about the spirituality of horror in a piece entitled “praying to zombie Jesus.”

Thomas Dubois at the Huffington Post thinks Asia just, well, doesn’t have religion.

Hard of hearing? Love televangelism? Good news: the Federal Communications Commission has your back. The Fed is reportedly cracking down on religious broadcasters that don’t use closed captioning in their broadcasts.


Public relations cleanup, aisle seven: The Atlantic reports that the upper-ish scale supermarket chain Trader Joe’s recently refused to open its doors to a group of Rabbis and Ministers demanding the establishment sign a Fair Food Agreement.

Jews in Switzerland are miffed at local Muslims who recently protested anti-Muslim discrimination by adorning themselves with yellow stars — that is, symbols resembling the ones Nazis forced Jews to wear during World War Two.

Tricycle magazine gets a bit creative with their “Buddhist Heart Replacement.”

And your Tweets of the Day comes from Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain and his recent visit to the National Press club. The former pizza mogul first invoked God when speaking of his tax plan…

@onfaith – Cain: “If 10% is good enough for God, then 9% better be enough for the federal government” on 9-9-9

…And then, naturally, broke out in song:

@onfaith – “Jesus looked beyond my faults,” Herman Cain sings at National Press Club

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