Oral Roberts claimed he had a vision of a giant Jesus telling him to build a hospital. When the hospital was losing $10 million/year, Roberts claimed he had another vision from giant Jesus threatened to kill him if he didn’t raise $8 million. The hospital went bankrupt being $25 million in debt.
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The State of Georgia was originally colonized with three prohibitions: no alcohol, no slavery, and no Catholics.
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The first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the United States also earned a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics, helped develop computer programming languages, AND she was a Catholic nun.
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Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
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Greek mythology isn’t a dead religion: People still worship the 12 Greek gods just as the Greeks did.
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In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, angels procreate with women and create a giant warrior race. The fallen angels also teach men to make weapons, how to apply eye shadow,and how to make jewelry. The book ends with them being imprisoned, and the earth being destroyed by a flood.
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A religion on a pacific island worships American soldiers and prays for their return.
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A Brazilian pastor is behind bars after telling his flock that his penis contained ‘holy milk’.
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Everyone in Iceland pays church tax, and the payment of those unaffiliated with a church goes to the University of Iceland.
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Drukpa Kunley was a Buddhist Monk who promised women a path to Nirvana through the use of his penis, or “Flaming Thunderbolt” as he liked to call it. The women paid him in beer.
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There are documents that state that Pope Pius XII tried to perform an exorcism on Hitler at a distance, but failed.
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An Islamic sect had been living in an 8-story underground bunker for more than 10 years including 20 children, some of which had never seen the light of day.
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Vatican state owns a observatory telescope in south-west Arizona.
