Category: The Big One

‘Darth Vader’ spared jail in Jedi church attacks
MSNBC
May, 13, 2008

The attack involved a church founded on the Jedi faith of ‘Star Wars’ films

Holyhead, Wales – A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones “” aka Master Jonba Hehol “” with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates’ Court.

He also whacked Jones’ 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones “” known as Master Mormi Hehol “” bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones’ brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the “Star Wars” films.

The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses “insight and knowledge” from the films as “a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life.” Continue reading “Church of Jedi Attacker Sentenced”

There Are No Atheists In The White House: Beware Of Politicians Following Divine Orders
by Paul Krassner
The Arthur Blog
January 7, 2007

With the New Hampshire primary fast approaching, Republican presidential candidtate Mitt Romney has tried to posture himself as the standard bearer of much of George Bush’s foreign policy. He suggested that “We are doing God’s work now, in my opinion, by keeping al Qaeda and Hezbollah from establishing a safe haven.”

Domestically, Romney wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Yet, in 1994, when he was running for the Senate, he came out in favor of choice for women. Although he claims not to be dictated to by his church, he admitted to Mormon feminist Judith Dushku that “the Brethren” in Salt Lake City told him he could take that position, and that in fact he probably had to in order to win in a liberal state like Massachusetts. Pandering trumped religious belief.

Romney’s opponent, Mike Huckabee, was one of three presidential wannabes who raised their hands during a Republican “debate” to signify that they didn’t believe in evolution, although Huckabee admitted, “I don’t know if the world was created in six days, I wasn’t there.” He has also said, “If there was ever an occasion for someone to have argued against the death penalty, I think Jesus could have done so on the cross and said, “˜This is an unjust punishment and I deserve clemency.'”

Whenever anybody claims that God talks directly to them, I think they’re totally delusional. President Bush is no exception. Not only was he told by his senior adviser, Karen Hughes, not to refer to terrorists as “folks,” but Bush was also being prompted by God Him-Her-or-Itself. “God would tell me, “˜George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.’ And I did.” As if he was only following divine orders. Continue reading “The Gospel (make that Gos-bull) of the White House”