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I’m confused about something. Maybe someone can ’splain me this.

See, I’m browsing through the inspirational brochure of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. (Link goes to a PDF. I hereby offer up this warning to all those sinning webmasters who do not alert their readers to such slow-downloading, new-app-launching, linking perfidy.) And I am finding myself quite moved by suchness as:

Walk through the Garden of Eden. Introduce yourself to our chameleons. Examine bones, the clutch of eggs from a dinosaur, an exceptional fossil collection, and a mineral collection. Enter the Cave of Sorrows and see the horrific effects of the Fall of man.

Already I feel closer to the all-embracing warmth of religious faith. Who doesn’t long to visit the Cave of Sorrows?

But then there’s this:

Okay, one more bit of fun with Christians on this Easter Sunday:

Make your own church sign at Church Sign Generator!

In which I attempt to be as blasphemous as possible on this, the holiest day in the Christian calendar. (Disclaimer: Since only believers can blaspheme, I cannot actually commit blasphemy. But I can try.)

It’s kinda weird, ain’t it, how as science makes miracles less and less necessary as explanations for Stuff We Haven’t Figured Out Yet, some people just can’t let go of the crutch of religion. So, while we have had, in the past few weeks, revelations of more and more evolutionary “missing links” -- which we’ve never really lacked for, despite what creation fantasists say -- we also have the bizarre specter of something like this, from the Washington Post:

Bill O’Reilly wanted a War on Easter, and now he’s got it: Documentary filmmaker and atheist provacteur Brian Flemming and the Rational Response Squad have teamed up to create the official evil heathen goin'-straight-to-hell War on Easter, a project to secretly put 666 copies of Flemming's ain't-no-Jesus doc The God Who Wasn't There in churches all across this great free-speech-allowing, freedom-of-religion-lovin' land of ours. The WoE blog has pix and stories from the front from the volunteer atheists doing the clandestine distributing.

(You may remember Flemming as the guy who made the strangely intriguing -- and deeply culturally aware -- mockumentary Nothing So Strange, about the assassination of Bill Gates and the ensuing coverup and conspiracy theories; I reviewed the film a while back. And I'll review the God film soon.)