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Yeezus! Kanye West Is At It Again

Let's get this out of the way first: Kanye West makes incredible music. That much is undeniable. If anyone tries to dispute that, they deserve to be smacked. He's an innovator whose talents are better than a vast majority of rappers and producers in the hip-hop game right now. However, the following ... More >>

Orange County Church's Sunday Marquee: "Thou Shalt Not Use Drones to Kill"

Outside of Unitarian Universalist, the Catholic Worker, and Metropolitan Community Church congregations, O.C. churches are notoriously conservative--like, hate-the-queers/bomb Iran conservative. So color us shocked when a Facebook pal of ours posted the following picture of the marquee outside Brea ... More >>

The OCeeker: Tustin Meadows Ward and Hot Mormon Mommas, Flawed Characters

The OCeeker is not a well-endowed man. At least when it comes to sporting the sacred underwear into which members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints slip during the "Mormon Endowment", a purification and pledge ritual where Mormons dedicate themselves to the service of Heavenly Fath ... More >>

The OCeeker: St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Catholic Church and the Farting Flock

The Lord's timing is incredible. Just as the OCeeker hit a sabbath in his P90X program, he took in a Mass and healing service at St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Catholic Church in Orange, where, with all the kneeling, sitting and standing, he got in some core work while his sins were washed away.Indeed, ... More >>

Greg Laurie Is One Smart Sermonator

[The OCeeker] Harvest Orange County is his plan for world domination

The OCeeker: Harvest Orange County and Greg Laurie's Plan for World Domination

​Greg Laurie wants more market share. The 59-year-old Christian pastor and evangelist--famous for being a disciple of Chuck Smith, leading the annual Harvest Crusade at Angel Stadium of blah, blah, blah--is pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, a megachurch in Riverside and one of the large ... More >>

It's The End of the World as We Know it (Again): Chuck Smith More Rapture-Ready Than Ever

​Chuck Smith is putting on his Nostradamus pants again. The Calvary Chapel founder wrapped up the 2012 SoCal Prophecy Conference at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills last Sunday with happy talk about the world's imminent doom and the rapture of the church.

Neptune, Jesus, Santa and Satan Sitting on a Billboard, Promoting Orange County Atheism

​For its latest atheist-friendly billboard, Backyard Skeptics is unveiling in Midway City this afternoon a photo lineup featuring King Neptune, Jesus Christ, Santa Claus and the Devil himself, broken up with an orange text box with the words, "What myths do you see?" and under this ditty: "7 Milli ... More >>

Complaint or No, Expect a Prayer to Begin Tonight's Yorba Linda City Council Meeting

​The Yorba Linda City Council, which in the recent past was blasted for allowing an Islamic charity to rent community center space for a gala that teabaggy types likened to an al Qaeda monster truck jam, is now getting criticized for its own religulousness."Local governments should not be in the b ... More >>

Lost and Found: Disneyland's Treasures

​For nearly 60 years, tourists have traveled from all across the globe to visit Disneyland. And for just as many years, tourists have been leaving a lot of crap behind them before making their way back home.But if you lost it at Disneyland, odds are one of the park's numerous Cast Members have fou ... More >>

Remembering When Chuck Smith Predicted the End Times--And They Didn't Happen

​Much is being made right now about some yahoos predicting that the world will end on May 21 because Scripture says so--you know, because such predictions have never been offered in the history of humanity. You can see their billboards around the county, with an added ad to listen to some radio st ... More >>

Jesus Coming to Santa Ana to Protest Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps Protesting the Laramie Project

​Everyone knows SanTana is more of a Virgin of Guadalupe town, but Her Son--the King of Kings, the Rock of Ages, Yeshua of Nazareth, the Lamb of God--Jesus Christ will grace the county seat this Saturday, protesting some of His stupider children: the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, who will pro ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: OC Church to Bless QuaranComment by America is falling: Compromisers will not enter the kingdom of Christ and GodComment by False God: There is only One True God and He visited us in the person of Jesus Christ........The True God is all TRUTH......Every other teaching is about false god ... More >>

Demonstrators Welcome Ex-Gay Conference

Christopher Victorio​Orange County's ex-gay-dar rocketed off the charts this past week as roughly 600 people gathered to attend Exodus International's Freedom Conference at Concordia University, while about 60 demonstrated outside the gates of the fortress-like campus last Saturday.

Our Shortlist of Superintendents for Capistrano Unified

Illustration by Evan YarboroughFormer CUSD Supt. Woodrow Carter, presumably resting in retirement.​The beleaguered Capistrano Unified School District has been through about, oh, 732 different superintendents in the past, say, four years. Following the firing of facial-loving supe Woodrow Carter la ... More >>

[UPDATED] Federal Lawsuit Targets Orange County College District Prayers

​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LAWYER FOR THE DISTRICT . . . A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the South Orange County Community College District over official prayers during public ceremonies, Americans United for Separation of Church and ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Proving Pendejo Know Nothings Wrong—Again!

Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case

Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Erik Ruhling's Book 'Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and Execution' Brings the Pain

Cypress Goes Cultist

Cypress has followed Westminster's lead in officially embracing the occult. The Cypress City Council voted in a perplexing 2-1 majority to display "In God We Trust" in council chambers. Aww, poor Cypress - only three council members? Iddle biddle widdle council, so cute! Actually two council member ... More >>

"Golden" Eye

If you're wondering how a book about a little girl hanging out with an armored polar bear can have so many religious conservatives scared, you're probably not alone. With THE GOLDEN COMPASS having screened in a nationwide sneak on Saturday, many may wonder where the God-bashing was that they've hear ... More >>

White Trash, Dark Side

Amy Louise Sebelius warns us all about the quick and easy path

Letters

'And when I say "you," I am referring to white America. I purposely left that "white" uncapitalized'

The Mark of The Beast

The Beast, the alt paper that howls at the world from the wintry, chicken wing-splattered wasteland that is Buffalo, now has the 2006 version of its always entertaining 50 Most Loathsome People in America online. The list of the loathsome features those you might expect (Bush, James Dobson, Ryan Se ... More >>

Commie Girl

Clown On Their Fingers and Clown On Their Toes: And we shall have music wherever we go

What Would Jigsaw Do?

The passion of the cut-rate, high-grossing Saw series continues

Dong? Schlong? Peter? Pecker? Wiener?

Jesus Kills

The end of the world is coming, and some OC Christians cant wait

Ordinary Girl

Theres something about Kelly Clarkson

POPE-TACULAR!!!

RATZINTACULAR!!!

Eight Days

A Moral, Abject Failure When It Mattered

Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005

Sex with Parrots and Other Jokes

A Day At The Pond With Americas Top Motivatorsand Jerry Lewis

Eight Days

Anti-Porn Star

An anonymous midget and two Christians are fighting to save you from sins of the flesh

Hillside Strangers

Trabuco Canyon monks brace for major changes to their quiet lives

'Jesus, Remeber Me?'

Homeless kids spend Good Friday in shadow of Santa Anas Glamour Slammer

Its All About the Sick Laughs

Madame Guignols Macabre Theatre

Hope for Humanity

Few play with their food as well as Pinot Provence

Video Review

That Darn Punk

Bring on the End Times

Is clonejesus.com for real?

Nothin But Churches

Our Annual South by Southwest Report

It's a Wu-Tang After All

What's your Wu-Tang tag?

Take Away the Pain

Jaded/Gorgeous/Poprox/Buzzbox
Galaxy Concert Theatre
Saturday, Jan. 8

Back From the Dead

The return of the Women

Notes on a Bloodstained Band Flier

Samiam/Farside/Shades Apart/Jesse & the Rockers
Chain Reaction
Wednesday, Nov. 17

Crystal Fur Ball

Psychic Kitty on stuff that matters