Zimmerman verdict shows God is a 'white racist,' Ivy League Professor Says

"God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us," Anthea Butler, of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies, wrote Monday in a blog post on ReligionDispatches.org. "As a black woman in [a] nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god." Then she dropped the bomb: "As a matter of fact, I think he's a white racist god with a problem." The University of Pennsylvania has declined to comment on Butler's revelation of God's race and personal, uh, foibles.

Vatican Grants Indulgences to Pope's Twitter Followers

According to The Guardian, the Vatican is now granting "indulgences" to followers of Pope Francis' Twitter account. These indulgences, when granted by the church, reduce the time Catholics will need to spend in purgatory after confession and absolution of their sins.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says indulgences are "obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishment due for their sins."

Former NY Times Writer Ridiculed for Being a Creationist

After admitting she believes in the biblical view of creation, Yahoo! News writer Virginia Heffernan is enduring harsh criticism from fellow journalists. Heffernan, a former technology and culture writer for The New York Times, explained in an article for Yahoo! News last week why and how she became a creationist, saying she's read a variety of authors on the subject from the Bible to Darwin to Gould and finds that evolutionary psychologists "have become more contradictory than Leviticus."

"I am a creationist," she wrote. There, I said it. At least you, dear readers, won't now storm out of a restaurant like the last person I admitted that to. In New York City saying you're a creationist is like confessing you think Ahmadinejad has a couple of good points. Maybe I'm the only creationist I know."