A group of straphangers who were stranded on an A train for eight hours overnight during the 2010 Christmas blizzard should take their legal complaint to the pearly gates, says the MTA. In a response to a lawsuit filed by several of the passengers, the MTA is blaming God in their defense. According to a court filing obtained by the Post, transit lawyers are arguing that "employees were confronted with an emergency situation by virtue of an Act of God." Please be patient, for the Lord moves in mysterious ways due to an earlier incident. more ›

Was the New York Times' precious email list of subscribers just hacked? Are you and your children safe from "hackers" who will try to "hack" away at your "cyber limbs" until you bleed binary code? When will we finally stop trusting the Times and just succumb to the warm, hermetic embrace of News Corp? An email that lots of important people received today from "nytimes@email.newyorktimes.com" told them they had cancelled their home delivery subscription, even if they hadn't, and urged them to reconsider. Via Twitter, the New York Times denies sending it, and calls it a "spam message." Can you win a Pulitzer for "Most Polite, Grammatically Correct Spam email?" more ›

After decades of focusing their expansion efforts on the suburbs, a growing number of Southern Baptists are flocking to northeast cites for what's known as "church planting," or establishing new congregations in wicked Godless places. And NYC, with its gambling and bars that sell spirits til the ungodly hour of 2 a.m., is a top target for proselytizers, the Times reports today. Years of investing God-capital in NYC seems to be paying off, with some 45 Southern Baptist "church plants" established here since 2001, and another 50 churches planned for the NYC area in the next five years. Which comes as an enormous relief because, as the Southern Baptists point out, NYC really needs Southern Baptists. more ›

In 2007, the Reverend Al Sharpton and celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died yesterday of cancer at the age of 62, met for an intellectual debate on the existence and nature of God at the New York Public Library. As the Times happily reported, despite the incendiary and polarizing nature of both men, the debate turned out to be "the public intellectual event of the evening, a bit like Bertrand Russell vs. C. S. Lewis." more ›

In case you stepped away from Fox News for a few moments over the Thanksgiving holiday, you may have missed the network's outraged condemnation of President Obama for not mentioning God in his YouTube Thanksgiving address. Ever ready to feed conservative America's insatiable hunger for vapid manufactured controversy, Fox derided the president's secular liberal godlessness with their special blend of sanctimony and contempt. And last night, the circle was completed at last when The Daily Show weighed in on this "Much Ado About Stuffing": more ›

Remember when soda was a nickel and you could just pray whenever you danged well felt like it? Most of the GOP 2012 presidential candidates do, and from the looks of last night's "debate" sponsored by the ultra-conservative Christian organization the Family Leader, they'd sure like to take us back to that magical time. Held in a church in Des Moines, the event was billed as a "Thanksgiving table forum," which makes sense if all your family talks about at Thanksgiving is same-sex marriage and abortion. more ›

Ever wonder what really goes on behind the scenes with the Creator of the Universe? You're in luck—God is about to release his telleth-all memoir “The Last Testament: A Memoir by God,” written with a little help from co-author (and former head writer and exec producer of The Daily Show) David Javerbaum. As his publisher puts it: "It's the ultimate celebrity biography, sure to appeal to not only hardcore God fans and 'worshipers,' but to anyone who’s ever had total omnipotence." more ›

The atheists aren't the only ones making a stink about the goings-on at Ground Zero; the former Deputy Mayor under Rudy Giuliani is lambasting Mayor Bloomberg for excluding religion from the upcoming 10th anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center. "This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," Rudy Washington tells the Wall Street Journal. "I feel like America has lost its way." more ›

According to police, a West Hartford man was arrested this week after he allegedly broke into a house, smashed statues and a marble table, then told the homeowners when they returned home that he'd been sent by God. And he really puts the mugging into mugshot! more ›

Atheists are complaining about a new street sign in Red Hook that commemorates firefighters who died on 9/11. On Saturday, a group of Red Hook firefighters, community members, and local politicians, gathered near the Engine 202 and Ladder 101 firehouse to rename part of Richards Street "Seven in Heaven Way." "They are heroes and should be rewarded in a place like heaven,” Tom Miskel of Community Board 6 tells the Brooklyn Paper. Atheists, of course, are making a big stink. more ›

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Sometimes He tells you to kill your son on a mountaintop, other times He commands you to send an army to take out the guy in Iraq who tried to kill your dad. Yesterday God was busy over in Jersey, where He sent an unidentified man on a mission to swim to Liberty Island. Unfortunately, the federal gov'ment stepped in once again to thwart The Almighty's sovereign will. more ›

A Long Island mother says that her son's sarcastic prayers were answered...when she won the lottery. Gloria Bentivegna won $1 million in an instant lottery game, and credits her son with divine intervention—and he was a non-believer before his mom hit the jackpot. "There's so many coincidences. Sure, I could brush it off as another freak incident. But to do so would be just stupid -- would be ignorant on my part," her son Sal told Newsday. more ›

Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock once said, "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director." And considering all the stories about how the auteur treated star Tippi Hedren, it certainly seems like he had a bit of a God-complex himself. Now, a church in Astoria is exploring the world of "Hitchcock and the Catholic Conscious" with a free film series! more ›

Atheists have been trying to get out their message, from city bus ads to the recent controversial billboard displayed at the Lincoln Tunnel which prompted a counter-billboard from the Catholic League. The latest: Co-opting rich billionaires into the act. Recently, the Illini Secular Student Alliance (ISSA), at the University of Illinois, launched a bus ad campaign to set the record straight when it comes to the charitable atheists of our world. more ›

Delaware Senate Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell spent a lot of time in the 1990s as a guest on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect. Last night, he released a new clip—this one from October 15, 1998— where she says, "Evolution is a myth." To which Maher responded, "Evolution is a myth?!? Have you ever looked at a monkey!" But O'Donnell said, "Well then, why they — why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?" Yes, where is Dr. Zaius when we really need him? more ›

Rep. Charles Rangel, who is currently on track for a public House trial over numerous ethics violations, is discussing his troubles with the man upstairs. Or at least that's how Rangel explained it to a hometown crowd: The Democrat spoke at a Harlem Week event and said, "How lucky you are when God tells you that you don’t have to take a plea. That you can tell them to let the facts speak for themselves. And if you’re afraid of the facts then it means that I can afford to be defiant." Did God also tell him to take the three extra rent-stabilized apartments? more ›

New York magazine's cover story this week is titled "Is Goldman Sachs Evil? Or Just Too Good?", giving the once-over to the investment bank that just reported $3.44 billion in second quarter profits less than half a year after receiving $10 billion in TARP money from the government. The feature by Joe Hagan examines the bailout, the culture, and the firm's relationship with D.C. Then there are quotes like this one from former "Sheriff of Wall Street" and Love Gov Eliot Spitzer—"If all we are getting are newly empowered and capital-rich hedge funds that benefit from market volatility, then we are not only rebuilding the same edifice, but we’re contributing to the underlying rot in our economy"—as well as one from GS's communications director, "The cult of the individual, which I think has been a disadvantage to so many of the firm’s competitors, really doesn’t exist here. The more you have acceptance, the easier it is to be effective." And another Wall Street veteran puts it this way: "The god is Goldman. You subjugate yourself to that god, and in return we will make you a gazillionaire." more ›