Religion tends to bring out the best and the worst of people.  After watching Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous this weekend, this fact has never been more obvious.  In the film Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor praises religion for it’s ability to soften the edges of humanity.  But with the good comes the bad, and in some cases the most horrifying insanity imaginable.

With snake-handling preachers and tear-stained children speaking in tongues, the soft edges can become a bit hard to recognize.  But as you will see in these five video clips, evangelical craziness can be  gruesomely exciting to watch and cause you to shrill with terror.

The Top 5 Most Terrifying Religu-licious Freakshows After the Jump (more…)

Over the past seven years of the Bush Administration, I’ve realized that to know what people are lying about, just listen to what they’re accusing others of doing–which is exactly what Christian-right leader and founder of Focus on the Family, James Dobson has done by claiming that Barack Obama is ‘distorting’ the Bible. His comments come in reference to a two-year-old speech Obama gave in June 2006, while speaking to a Christian group.

Check out video of Obama’s full speech after the jump! (more…)